The curious case of dopaminergic error signals and learning beyond value…. Geoffrey Schoenbaum, a Distinguished Investigator from the NIH, will be delivering a PBS colloquium lecture on February 18th, from 3:30 to 4:45 pm, in Gilman 50! Transient changes in the firing of midbrain dopamine neurons have been closely tied to the unidimensional value-based prediction error […]

Jan Engelmann, an associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, will be delivering a PBS colloquium lecture on February 25th, from 3:30 to 4:45 pm, in Gilman 50! Rational Thought in Chimpanzees and Human Children Rationality has long been regarded as our species’ defining trait. The key claim is that only humans, but not other animals, […]