Richly structured reward predictions in dopaminergic learning circuits Angela Langdon from the National Institute of Mental Health will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Theories from reinforcement learning have been highly influential for interpreting neural activity in the biological circuits critical for animal and human learning. Central among […]
Cognitive tools for uncovering useful abstractions Judith Fan, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! In the 17th century, the Cartesian coordinate system was groundbreaking. It exposed the unity between algebra and geometry, accelerating the development of the math that took […]
Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical plasticity within and across lifetimes. Leah Krubitzer, Professor of Psychology at UC-Davis, a will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! The neocortex is one of the most distinctive structures of the mammalian brain, yet also one of the most varied in terms of both size and […]