Silvia Maggi, Mark Humphries, Hazem Toutonji

A fully-funded PhD is immediately available with Dr Silvia Maggi and Professor Mark Humphries (University of Nottingham) and Dr Hazem Toutonji (University of Sheffield). The project will build on recently published work involving a Bayesian inference algorithm that enables trial-resolution tracking of learning and exploration during decision-making. The PhD 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 allow testing a range of hypotheses for how correct decisions are learnt and what innate strategies are used.