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Brain Meeting: Prof. Jacqueline Gottlieb
21 June 2024, 10:00 am–11:00 am
Attention, Uncertainty and Information Gains: A Vast Unexplored Landscape
This event is free.
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Brain Meetings
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Seminar Room12 Queen SquareQueen SquareLondonWC1N 3ARUnited Kingdom
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.
About the Speaker
Prof. Jacqueline Gottlieb
Professor of Neuroscience; Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
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