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SUMMARY:BMI Seminar // Adil Khan "Neural circuits underlying cognitive beh
 aviour”
DTSTART:20251104T103000
DTEND:20251104T113000
DTSTAMP:20260501T134033Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Adil Khan\,  King’s College\, London\, UK\nIn order to sur
 vive\, an animal's behaviour must be flexible. This flexibility allows ani
 mals to react differently to the same stimuli depending on the context. Fo
 r example\, the smell of smoke will elicit very different responses if one
  is in their home\, or near a barbecue. How the brain selects different ac
 tions in response to the same stimulus remains a mystery. Such context-dep
 endent adaptation of behaviour is a key component of cognitive control. 
 While the neural correlates of these phenomena have been traditionally stu
 died in humans and primates\, rodents also possess sophisticated cognit
 ive abilities\, and provide an opportunity to develop a detailed circui
 t-level understanding of cognitive processes. In this talk\, I will desc
 ribe work from my lab studying multiple brain regions involved in flexible
  behaviour. I will discuss how the visual cortex adapts during learning a
 nd attention to enhance the processing of behaviourally relevant visual s
 timuli. Additionally\, I will describe the role of the prefrontal cortex i
 n guiding cognitive shifts by detecting violations of predictions about 
 the world\, or prediction-errors. These studies combine multidisciplinary 
 methodologies\, including cognitive behaviour in mice\, longitudinal two
 -photon calcium imaging\, and optogenetic circuit perturbations.
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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