Deanna Barch Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences Washington University in St. Louis Mechanisms of Motivational Impairments in Psychosis Psychiatric disorders involving psychosis are typically associated with hallucinations and delusions. However, hedonic and motivational impairments are a frequent additional component of psychotic disorders that causes significant disability and functional impairment. Unfortunately, current treatments […]
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Joshua T. Vogelstein nstitute for Computational Medicine Center for Imaging Science Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Sciences Johns Hopkins University Lifelong Learning: From Biological to Artificial To transition from artificial (narrow) intelligence to artificial general intelligence will require incorporating additional fundamental learning principles that evolved in biologically intelligent systems. One such property […]
Steven Pinker Department of Psychology Harvard University “The Emperor, the Elephant, and the Matzo Ball: Common Knowledge as a Ratifier of Relationships” The seminar will be held in the Levin Auditorium (Levin Building lower level), with a simulcast screening in the SAIL Room (111 Levin Building). Refreshments will be served after the seminar […]
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 […]
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 […]