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SUMMARY:LCN Seminar: Decision-Making in Perception and Action
DTSTART:20131115T141500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Angela YU\, Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab\, Depar
 tment of Cognitive Science\, University of California\, San Diego\nPercept
 ion and action are often studied in both empirical and theoretical researc
 h as feed-forward\, reactive processes.  In more natural settings\, the b
 rain finely controls behavioral interactions with the environment in a dyn
 amic and goal-directed fashion\, such that it constantly makes proactive d
 ecisions in light of potential future outcomes.  Using state-of-the-art t
 ools from stochastic control theory\, in combination with more standard Ba
 yesian statistical modeling tools\, my work has shown that many behavioral
  and neural phenomena can be understood as rational decision-making by the
  brain at different timescales and levels of abstraction.  In this talk\,
  I will give an overview of my modeling and experimental work that uses de
 cision-theoretic concepts to understand the formal link between neurophysi
 ology and behavior in various aspects of cognition: perception\, attention
 \, cognitive control\, and foraging.
LOCATION:SV1717a http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=sv1717a
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