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CDB Seminar - Prof Timothy Behrens
02 December 2021, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Title: Representing the structure of problems in the frontal hippocampal circuitry
This event is free.
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Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Michael Wright – Cell and Developmental Biology
Abstract: 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 appear very different from spatial navigation. I will describe some theory that allows us to think about spatial and non-spatial problems in the same framework, and I will try to use this theory to give a new perspective on the beautiful spatial computations that inspired it. The overall goal of this work is to find a framework where we can talk about complicated non-spatial inference problems with the same precision that is only currently available in space.
Host: Prof Caswell Barry
Join Zoom Meeting: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/98110926331?pwd=ellORjRsZ1I3UDZBZTZFeDlxSDZIQT09
Meeting ID: 981 1092 6331
Passcode: 192179
About the Speaker
Timothy Behrens
Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Oxford University
Professor Behrens studies how our brains learn and represent knowledge about the world in service of flexible behaviour. He uses computational descriptions at the behavioural and network levels to form predictions, and test these in neurophysiological, neurochemical, and lesion data.
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