Building Models of the World for Behavioral Control
Description
This lecture will discuss how basic models of the world might be stored in the brain to allow flexible control of behavior. Relevant studies try to investigate neural codes and mechanisms that are used to organize this knowledge into a form that can be used efficiently and flexibly. The lecture will mostly focus on interactions between the frontal cortex and the medial temporal lobe. The neuronal codes and mechanisms discussed are often measured in both humans and model species, so there may be methodological interest in how to measure these mechanistic types of signals in humans.
Speaker Bio
Tim Behrens works at Oxford and UCL. He is a Wellcome Trust fellow. He has made some contributions into understanding how brain connections constrain brain function, and in understanding some of the computations that mediate flexible behaviour in the frontal cortex. He often tries to investigate similar computations in different species to understand relationships between cellular phenomena and signals that can be measured in humans.