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SUMMARY:BMI Seminar // Alla Karpova: Towards Neural Underpinnings of Small
 -scale World models
DTSTART:20240311T140000
DTEND:20240311T150000
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DESCRIPTION:Alla Karpova\, Janelia\, Ashburn\, VA\, USA\nOne of the most i
 nteresting\, and mysterious\, aspects of biological brains is that they fo
 rm representations of environments that are richer than an interlinked ser
 ies of associations\, and more ‘conceptual’ than partitions in a multi
 dimensional representation of the sensory input. Our best intuition about 
 how this happens is that brains have evolved to pick up on\, and exploit\,
  the ubiquity of structure in the natural world and in the types of tasks 
 that animals might have to solve over their life span\, efficiently formin
 g small-scale structured relational models of the animal’s world and of 
 their actions in it that can be used for planning and decision-making. But
  even with that intuition\, we know little about how structured knowledge 
 is acquired or updated\, especially when the extraction of the relevant st
 ructure must happen incidentally\, without explicit instruction or feedbac
 k. I will describe an experimental framework using rat as a model system\,
  where the relationship between the incidentally acquired structured knowl
 edge and the neural activity is strong enough that we can begin to decode 
 it with confidence on single trials. Going forward\, this puts us in a pos
 ition to probe how structured knowledge about the world is acquired by the
  brain\, and how it is updated with experience.\n 
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/64813563657
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