[WTI-trainee] Seminar by Dr. Becket Ebitz | Friday September 6 | Current Works in Behavior, Genetics, and Neuroscience at BrainWorks

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Please join us next Friday, September 6th,  for a seminar by Becket Ebitz.

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Speaker: Dr Becket Ebitz

Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Dynamics of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal

Title:    Neuroscience of Mistakes
Date:  Friday, September 6
Time:  11:35 – 12:55
Place: Room 180A, 100 College Street



The talk kicks off the Current Works in Behavior, Genetics, and Neuroscience at BrainWorks.

This series will meet regularly on Fridays 11:35-12:55 in room 180A at 100 College. Nibbles will be available upon arrival.

Abstract for Neuroscience of Mistakes

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 noiseLab 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.

We hope to see you there,

Kia Nobre, Roeland Hancock, Kathy Shi, Hanna Hillman, Deborah Day (organizers)

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