Aaron Batista Department of Bioengineering University of Pittsburgh How Neural Population Activity Reorganizes with Learning Learning is difficult. Why? Your brain must change somehow to endow you with new knowledge and skills. We don’t yet know how exactly new knowledge is stored in the brain, let alone why this process takes time. We […]
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Bradley C. Love Professor, Cognitive and Decision Sciences University College London Location: JMHH 340 (Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street) Coherency Seeking as a Driver of Preference In uncertain environments, effective decision makers balance exploiting options that are currently preferred against exploring alternative options that may prove superior. For example, a honeybee foraging for […]
with Adriana Renero (NYU) and Gabriel Reyes (MUDD) Some philosophers claim that multiple cognitive processes contribute to introspection and some neuroscientists show that multiple cortical systems play a significant role in introspective processing (pluralist-process models). Although the contributions of these models have been significant in shedding light on introspection, they fail in providing an […]
Shih-Wei Wu Institute of Neuroscience National Yang-Ming University Probability estimation and its neurocomputational substrates Many decisions we make depend on how we evaluate potential outcomes and estimate their probabilities of occurrence. Outcome valuation is subjective – it requires consulting the decision maker’s internal preferences and is sensitive to context. Probability estimation is also […]
Location: 200 Goddard Labs, 3710 Hamilton Walk 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. Dr. Rebecca Waller is an Assistant Professor of Psychology. She will be […]