Connectionists: World wide VVTNS series: Wednesday, January 17 at 11am (ET), Ann Kennedy, Northwestern University

[David Hansel]

[image: VVTNS.png]
https://www.wwtns.online - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide

You are cordially invited to the lecture  given by

Ann Kennedy

Northwestern University

on the topic of

"Neural computations underlying the regulation of motivated behavior"

The lecture will be held on zoom on *January 17, 2024*, at *11:00 am ET *

Register on the our website - https://www.wwtns.online  -to receive the
zoom link



*Abstract:* As we interact with the world around us, we experience a
constant stream of sensory inputs, and must generate a constant stream of
behavioral actions. What makes brains more than simple input-output
machines is their capacity to integrate sensory inputs with an animal’s own
internal motivational state to produce behavior that is flexible and
adaptive. Working with neural recordings from subcortical structures
involved in regulation of survival behaviors, we show how the dynamical
properties of neural populations give rise to motivational states that
change animal behavior on a timescale of minutes. We also show how
neuromodulation can alter these dynamics to change behavior on timescales
of hours to days.



*About VVTNS : Created as the World Wide Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in
November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam
(April 20, 2022), its aim is to be a platform to exchange ideas among
theoreticians. Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects
of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of
the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, **held on
Wednesdays at 11 am ET,**  are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The
talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to
everybody on our YouTube channel.*
ᐧ
ᐧ
ᐧ
ᐧ

ᐧ


-- 
'Life is good ..' (Carl van Vreeswijk, 1962-2022)
---------------------------------------
David Hansel
Directeur de Recherche  au CNRS
Co-Group leader
Cerebral Dynamics Plasticity and Learning lab., CNRS
45 rue des Saints Peres 75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tel (Cell):   +33 607508403 - Fax (33).1.49.27.90.62


ᐧ
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/connectionists/attachments/20240114/4cdc1afc/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: VVTNS.png
Type: image/png
Size: 41084 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/connectionists/attachments/20240114/4cdc1afc/attachment.png>