Joyce Zhao Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Towards a space of behavioral interventions: Insights from the drift diffusion model Choice behavior can be influenced by many different types of incidental contextual factors, including those pertaining to presentation format, emotion, social belief, and cognitive capacity. Many of these contextual factors form the basis of behavioral […]
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Penn grad students, postdocs and RAs, you are invited to lunch with interesting guests. Not a talk – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served. Daniel Langleben is a professor of Psychiatry at the VA Medical Center and a member of the Center for Studies […]
Lisa Monteggia Vanderbilt University
Tim Behrens Computational Neuroscience Group Oxford University Abstraction and inference in the prefrontal hippocampal circuitry The cellular representations and computations that allow rodents to navigate in space have been described with beautiful precision. In this talk, I will show that some of these same computations can be found in humans doing tasks that […]