Hi everyone
I hope you had a good Bank Holiday weekend.
This week we have two talks at YNiC:
1. *Wednesday 29th at 2pm* - project presentation by Dr Daniel
Baker on *"Electromagnetic
indices of spatial summation in visual cortex*"
2. *Thursday 30th at 4pm *- guest speaker Dr Vincent Costa will be
visiting us from Oregon Health & Science University. This promises to be
an interesting session, and we encourage you all to attend:
*Title: *More than a feeling: A comparison of amygdala and ventral
striatum contributions to reinforcement learning
*Abstract:* If you ask a neuroscientist about emotion, they would
probably give you the skinny about every amygdala study ever written. If
you ask them about reward, they would probably give you a syllabus filled
with references to the ventral striatum. But I’ll bet they can’t tell you
what specific computations are computed in the amygdala relative to the
ventral striatum. This is because traditional views of reinforcement
learning have held that the striatum integrates dopaminergic reward
prediction errors to facilitate learning, but have not ascribed a specific
role for the amygdala. After decades of research suggesting the amygdala
mainly contributes to emotion and simpler forms of associative learning,
researchers are just beginning to explore the computational boundaries of
amygdala function. The emerging perspective, which I will discuss, is that
standard accounts of reinforcement learning that emphasize stratal and
cortical contributions, should be revised to include a key role for the
amygdala.
Both talks will take place in YNiC open plan, and will be followed by
refreshments.
We hope to see you there!
Kind regards
Lauren
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Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
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