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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Please join us next </span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none">Friday,</span></b><span style="color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none">September
6<sup>th</sup></span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">, for a seminar by </span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none">Becket Ebitz</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">.</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Speaker: Dr </span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none">Becket Ebitz</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Dynamics of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Title: </span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none">Neuroscience of Mistakes</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Date: </span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none">Friday, September 6</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Time: </span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none">11:35 – 12:55</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Place:</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none"> Room 180A, 100 College Street</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">The talk kicks off the </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Current Works in Behavior, Genetics, and Neuroscience at BrainWorks.</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">This series will meet regularly on Fridays 11:35-12:55 in room 180A at 100 College. Nibbles will be available upon arrival.</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none">Abstract</span></b><span style="color:#7030A0;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">for Neuroscience of Mistakes</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Humans and other animals do not always choose the most rewarding course of action, even when we have ample time and computational resources. Why do we make mistakes? The <b>noiseLab</b> uses
a combination of theoretical, behavioral, and neurobiological techniques to address this question. In this talk, Dr. Becket Ebitz will discuss converging evidence that mistakes are the product of representational and temporal nonlinearities in neural activity
that constrain our ability to make good decisions. Some of these nonlinearities have long-term adaptive benefits, even when they fail to produce the best decision in the moment.</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">We hope to see you there,</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Kia Nobre, Roeland Hancock, Kathy Shi, Hanna Hillman, Deborah Day (organizers)</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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