{"id":66504,"date":"2025-10-30T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/special-seminar-yonatan-aljadeff-ph-d\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:37:28","slug":"special-seminar-yonatan-aljadeff-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/special-seminar-yonatan-aljadeff-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Seminar: Yonatan Aljadeff, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<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>Yonatan Aljadeff<\/strong><\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Assistant Professor<\/li>\n<li>School of Biological Sciences<\/li>\n<li>University of California San Diego<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong>Towards understanding how animals hide (from themselves and others)<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To produce adaptable behaviors, networks of neurons in multiple brain regions and animal species are thought to form internal models of the world. Internal models correspond to neural representations of predictions and prediction errors of behaviorally meaningful variables, such as incoming sensory stimuli and motor actions. In a typical experiment to probe internal models, an animal learns to predict the presence of a specific stimulus based on a specific motor action. Such experiments can explain, for example, why when we walk on dry leaves we &#8220;stop hearing&#8221; the predictable sound of leaves crumbling\u2014&#8221;hiding&#8221; from our own action. Existing models of predictive processing do not generalize to more natural scenarios where many stimulus features are predicted (crumbling leaves, a creaking wood floor, etc.). My talk will describe our work on potential biological mechanisms of high-dimensional predictive processing. I will conclude with remarks on ongoing work attempting to use our model to understand neural control of cephalopod camouflage behavior\u2014hiding from others\u2014by recasting this behavior as a high-dimensional prediction. Preprint summarizing most of the results in the talk:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biorxiv.org%2Fcontent%2F10.1101%2F2024.08.05.606684v1&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cmsalgad4%40jhu.edu%7Cf8ea489526f54fb117af08de0ad0735f%7C9fa4f438b1e6473b803f86f8aedf0dec%7C0%7C0%7C638960087665460701%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jecLP4womnQo9FYWlwbJKrflv7do9MuIJE3U9Cb%2F8m4%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2024.08.05.606684v1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faculty Host: Dr. Cynthia Moss<\/p>\n<div class=\"tribe-block tribe-block__venue tribe-clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tribe-block tribe-block__events-link\">\n<div class=\"tribe-events tribe-common\">\n<div class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__container\">\n<div class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown\">\n<div 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