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In Search Of Flexibility: Behavioural and Neural Adjustments to Uncertainty Across Mammals| title | In Search Of Flexibility: Behavioural and Neural Adjustments to Uncertainty Across Mammals |
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| start_date | 2023/12/11 |
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| schedule | 15h15 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Room B10 |
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| summary | Survival depends on the ability to adapt and adjust to uncertainty and changes in the environment. This is inherently challenging because the environment and thus the feedback it provides (e.g., reward feedback) can change in many ways and at different timescales. Critically, our brain possesses multiple mechanisms for responding to and processing information at different timescales, allowing us to both learn and predict regularities of the environment and to detect its changes. However, it is not possible to benefit from these two abilities unboundedly due to a general tradeoff in learning: precision in learning regularities of the environment limits flexibility in adjusting what is learned, and vice versa. In this talk, I will share some of our findings about different sources of flexibility in learning and choice behavior under uncertainty. Specifically, I will show how some of the computational methods we have developed can be applied to experimental data across mammals to address the following questions: (1) how are different learning strategies determined and adjusted? (2) how are different sources of information combined to allow flexibility? and (3) how are such adjustments reflected in timescales of neural responses? Addressing these questions could have important implications for tackling global challenges we face as a species. |
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| responsibles | Allen |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/12/06 13:04 UTC |
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