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Dr Silvia Maggi, Professor Mark Humphries, Dr Hazem Toutonji
University of Nottingham, University of Sheffield
Apply by Nov 30, 2024
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Nov 30, 2024
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Dr Silvia Maggi, Professor Mark Humphries, Dr Hazem Toutonji
University of Nottingham, University of Sheffield
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Nov 30, 2024
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Dr Silvia Maggi, Professor Mark Humphries, Dr Hazem Toutonji
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A fully-funded PhD is available with Dr Silvia Maggi and Professor Mark Humphries (University of Nottingham) and Dr Hazem Toutonji (University of Sheffield). The project involves understanding how subjects respond to dynamic environments and requires approaches that can track subject's choice strategies at the resolution of single trials. The project will build on a recently developed Bayesian inference algorithm that enables trial-resolution tracking of learning and exploration during learning. The project aims to solve crucial problems of determining which of a set of behavioural strategies a subject is using and how to incorporate evidence uncertainty into its detection of the learning of strategies and transitions between them. Using the extended algorithm on datasets of rodents and humans performing decision tasks will let us test a range of hypotheses for how correct decisions are learnt and what innate strategies are used.
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