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NB & CNS Seminar - Noashige Uchida | Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 4 pm

Tuesday, April 16, 2024
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Reception: 3:30 pm

Time: 4 pm

Location: Chen 100

Speaker: Noashige Uchida, Professor

Center for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Harvard University

Faculty Host: Yuki Oka

"How do animals learn? Toward an algorithmic understanding"

Dopamine regulates multiple brain functions including learning, motivation, and movement. It has been thought that midbrain dopamine neurons send out a teaching signal – a so-called "reward prediction error" used in machine learning, to the rest of the brain to facilitate learning to predict future outcomes. Recent studies, however, have found more diverse dopamine signals than originally thought. How can we reconcile these results? In this talk, I will discuss our recent studies characterizing diverse dopamine signals, and what "logic" animals use to learn from experiences.

For more information, please contact Tish Cheek by phone at 626-395-4952 or by email at [email protected].