(1) Reminder about the upcoming Hebb Lecture (which replaces the Cognitive Seminar this week)
(2) Journal Blitz this Friday at 5pm in Thomson House
(1) Hebb Lecture
Dr. A. David Redish
Title: "The Cognitive Rat: Looking Forward and Looking Back"
Abstract: A key component of cognition is the ability to use imagined and counter-factual events to guide decision-making. I will show how applying neural decoding calculation operations to neural ensembles recorded during behavior can identify moments of imagined and counter-factual events and differentiate those events from noise. The timing and information content of these non-local representations provides evidence for specific algorithmic operations during decision-making. I will describe several examples of cognitive, non-local operations during behavioral decision-making processes, including both spatial and non-spatial examples.
Friday January 30th 2015
15:30 - 17:00
S1/3 Stewart Biology Building
In addition to his main lecture at 3:30pm, Dr. Redish will give an informal morning seminar in which he will lead a discussion on multiple decision-making systems. The morning seminar will take place at 10:30am in room N7/14, Stewart Biology Building. Graduate students are especially encouraged to attend. (2) After the talk, we will gather in Thomson House for the first Journal Blitz of the semester; join us to tell us about an article you have read recently, hear about what others have read, and discuss (over beer and nachos or drinks and snacks of your choice).
Please forward this message to your students and other interested parties.
Thanks,
Esther
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Esther Schott
Graduate Student, MIDC
Department of Psychology
McGill University
http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/midccdem/
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