Joshua Neunuebel, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychological & Brain SciencesUniversity of Delaware Decoding Mouse Ultrasonic Communication During Social Behavior Communication plays an integral role in human social dynamics, and a […]
Jan Engelmann, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Dept. of PsychologyUniversity of California, Berkeley The sense of fairness in chimpanzees and children It is often argued that the sense of fairness consists in an […]
Terrence R. Stanford, Ph.D.Professor, Translational NeuroscienceWake Forest University School of Medicine Imposing urgency to generate insights into the neural mechanisms of perceptual decision-making and motor choice One of the most […]
Elizabeth Quinlan, Ph.D.Professor and Chair, Department of NeuroscienceHerman and Rubinstein Chair of NeuroscienceUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison TBD Faculty Host: Hey-Kyoung Lee
Vincent Costa, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Division of NeuroscienceOregon National Primate Research CenterOregon Health & Science University Disynaptic motivational circuits regulate decisions to explore or exploit Motivational circuits facilitate reinforcement learning and […]
Hiroyuki Kato, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorDepartment of Psychiatry & Neuroscience CenterUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill Sensory Integration along the Auditory Cortical Hierarchy Our brain’s ability to parse overlapping sounds and reconstruct […]
Stefan Mihalas, Ph.D.InvestigatorAllen Institute for Brain Science Computing with complex components: How heterogeneous, nonstationary and noisy neurons and synapses contribute to the brain’s computational power While artificial neural networks have […]
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Adult Ocular Dominance Plasticity: Hebbian or Homeostatic? Daniel Tso, PhDAssociate Professor of Neurosurgery,Neuroscience and Physiology,& Ophthalmology and Visual SciencesSUNY Upstate Medical UniversitySyracuse, NY Recent studies in adult […]
Giorgio Ascoli, Ph.D.Distinguished University Professor, Bioengineering Department and Neuroscience ProgramFounding Director, Center for Neural Informatics, Structure, & PlasticityKrasnow Institute for Advanced StudyGeorge Mason University From Neuron Classification to Spiking Neural […]
Value-based cognition: reward, computation, learning and problem-solving Many of our daily decisions are related to value. Choosing between food options, doingmathematic calculations, and learning something new, all of these procedures […]
Reza Shadmehr, Ph.D.Professor, Dept of Biomedical EngineeringJohns Hopkins University A vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum: Neurons in the brain are active not just during execution of a […]
Thorsten Kahnt, Ph.D.Chief, Learning and Decision-Making UnitNational Institute on Drug Abuse Orbitofrontal contributions to outcome-guided behavior Research across species has shown that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is critical for decision […]
