[CTN] Grad student lunch with Gunnar Blohm

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

As usual, graduate students are invited to join the speaker for lunch. It
will be a bit later than usual. Please meet in PAS 2464 at 1:00 if you are
interested, and contact Eric Hunsberger (erichuns at gmail.com) with any
questions.

Also a reminder that the talk is 3:30 Tuesday March 28 (tomorrow) in PAS
2464.

Bryan

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please join us for the final CTN seminar of the year, with speaker Gunnar
> Blohm. The title and abstract follow.
>
> Bryan
>
>
> Spiking networks for decision making and working memory
>
> G. Blohm
>
> Queen’s University, Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Departments of
> Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Psychology,
> School of Computing; and Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet)
>
> Decision making and working memory are central to cognition. Working
> memory is the transient retention and manipulation of information that can
> then be used to make a selection among choices, i.e. a decision. I propose
> a unifying framework of neural dynamics that could underlie different key
> features of decision making (such as the speed-accuracy trade-off) and
> working memory (such as capacity, distractibility and overload). We
> developed spiking neural models that capture decisions and working memory
> independently or within the same network as a function of a single
> (cognitive) control parameter, which we propose to be distal network
> disinhibition. The predicted neural mechanisms are helpful in understanding
> canonical computations underlying a variety of cognitive process beyond
> decisions and working memory.
>
>
>
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