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Consciousness is, for each of us, the presence of subjective experience. Without consciousness there is no world, no self: there is nothing at all. In this talk, I will illustrate how the framework…
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Anil Seth Date
March 29th, 2021
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The view of human brain function has drastically shifted over the last decade, owing to the observation that the majority of brain activity is intrinsic rather than driven by external stimuli or…
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Sepideh Sadaghiani Date
March 8th, 2021
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Over the last 20 years, numerous human brain imaging studies related to motor control have identified left hemispheric parietofrontal activity as central to motor planning and execution for complex…
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Lewis Wheaton Date
March 1st, 2021
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Through the combination of in vivo optical imaging and chronic expression of genetically encoded calcium indicators it is now feasible to directly 'watch' brain activity patterns related to…
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Fritjof Helmchen Date
February 15th, 2021
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Our perception of music, speech and the surrounding soundscape all originate from patterns of vibrations in the cochlea. To encode these high-speed vibrations, evolutionary pressures designed an…
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Daniel Polley Date
February 8th, 2021
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious psychiatric condition that affects 6-8% of the general population and 30-46% of military or highly traumatized urban populations. Different…
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Sanne van Rooij Date
February 1st, 2021
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Animal behavior is a key component of biological adaptations, where fitness relies on the ability to find mates, acquire food, and avoid predation. Variation in the availability of key ecological…
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Lauren O'Connell Date
November 23rd, 2020
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Perceptual sensitivity varies from moment to moment. One potential source of this variability is spontaneous fluctuations in cortical activity that can travel as waves. Spontaneous travelling waves…
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John Reynolds Date
November 16th, 2020
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Our sensory pathways extract information from the complex world within which we live, and help us to perceive relevant inputs, make decisions, and take action. Our laboratory has extensively…
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Garrett B. Stanley Date
November 9th, 2020
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Muscle spindles richly innervate muscles in vertebrates, providing critical sensory information about the body’s mechanical interactions with the environment necessary for neural control of…
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Lena H. Ting Date
November 2nd, 2020
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Survival requires proper association of reward outcomes to choices and actions that precede them. To learn successfully, however, the brain must constantly adjust how it incorporates each reward…
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Alireza Soltani Date
October 19th, 2020
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Many decisions arise through an accumulation of evidence to a terminating threshold. The process provides a unified account of the choice (e.g., accuracy) and the amount of time taken to complete it.…
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Michael N. Shadlen Date
October 12th, 2020
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Grace Leslie Date
October 5th, 2020
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Celebrate Constitution Day and the centennial of the 19th amendment to the Constitution in this virtual program with Jessica VanLanduyt from the Atlanta History Center.Learn about how some women…
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Jessica VanLanduyt Date
September 17th, 2020
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Attention modulates what we see and remember. Memory affects what we attend to and perceive. Despite this connection in behavior, little is known about the mechanisms that link attention and memory…
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Mariam Aly Date
September 14th, 2020
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Alaa Aljiffry Date
February 27th, 2020
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