Seminar · Cognition
Abstraction and Inference in the Prefrontal Hippocampal Circuitry
Tim Behrens · Oxford University
Thu, Mar 18, 2021 · 02:00 UTC
The cellular representations and computations that allow rodents to navigate in space have been described with beautiful precision. In this talk, I will show that some of these same computations can be found in humans doing tasks that appear very different from spatial navigation. I will describe some theory that allows us to think about spatial and non-spatial problems in the same framework, and I will try to use this theory to give a new perspective on the beautiful spatial computations that inspired it. The overall goal of this work is to find a framework where we can talk about complica