{"id":66506,"global_id":"krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute?id=66506","global_id_lineage":["krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute?id=66506","krieger.jhu.edu\/mbi?id=1950"],"author":"397","status":"publish","date":"2025-10-30 11:37:39","date_utc":"2025-10-30 15:37:39","modified":"2025-12-04 10:49:21","modified_utc":"2025-12-04 15:49:21","url":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/bodian-seminar-yuri-saalmann-ph-d\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/66506","title":"Bodian Seminar: Yuri Saalmann, Ph.D.","description":"<div class=\"tribe-events-schedule tribe-clearfix\">\n<p class=\"tribe-events-schedule__datetime\">\n\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__date tribe-events-schedule__date--start\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__separator tribe-events-schedule__separator--date\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t @ \t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__time tribe-events-schedule__time--start\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong>Yuri Saalmann<\/strong><\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies<\/li>\n<li>Department of Psychology<\/li>\n<li>University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><strong><strong>Thalamo-cortical processes for cognitive control and conscious states<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Projections from the cerebral cortex to the thalamus have the key feature of convergence, which forces high-dimensional activity patterns in the cerebral cortex \u2013 useful for distinguishing between similar situations and supporting a wide range of behaviors \u2013 to be compressed, giving rise to lower-dimensional representations in the thalamus that coincide with simpler, latent variables. 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