Brain Meeting: Prof. Jacqueline Gottlieb

Please contact ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk for a Zoom link.

Please note the time change for this event – this talk will be held from 10 – 11.00, departing from our usual schedule from 15.15 – 16.15.

Increasing evidence supports the idea that attention is a cognitive process that maximizes expected information gains (EIG) – the reduction of uncertainty that a stimulus is expected to bring. I will present a new neuro-computational model of EIG-based attention control that explains single neuron recordings in monkeys based on interactions between fronto-parietal and executive networks. I will then present behavioral and fMRI studies in humans addressing a key question that stems from this view – namely, how humans estimate uncertainty/EIG based on sensory and numerical inputs.