Connectionists: World wide VVTNS series: Wednesday, April 17 at 11am (EDT), Tim O'Leary University of Cambridge|Flip flops and toggles for effective decision making in neural circuits

[David Hansel]

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https://www.wwtns.online - on twitter: wwtns at TheoreticalWide

You are cordially invited to the lecture  given by

Tim O'Leary

University of Cambridge
on the topic of

"Flip flops and toggles for effective decision making in neural circuits*"*

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


To receive the zoom link: https://www.wwtns.online/register-page


*Abstract:  *Neural computation is inextricably bound to decisions that
must be made under time pressure and uncertainty. At the level of neural
circuits, single neurons need to decide whether to spike. On longer
timescales, the component circuitry needs to decide whether to reconfigure
to store memories and adapt to novel situations. In this talk I will focus
on two fun ideas in each of these contexts by showing how nonlinearities in
neural components naturally form excitable switches that enable reliable
decisions to be made in fluctuating environments. I will also issue
propaganda that the kind of high level, cognitive faculties that we
normally associate with decision making apply equally well and are
understudied at the level of neural and synaptic populations.

*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.*
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'Life is good ..' (Carl van Vreeswijk, 1962-2022)
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David Hansel
Directeur de Recherche  au CNRS
Co-Group leader
Cerebral Dynamics Plasticity and Learning lab., CNRS
45 rue des Saints Pères 75270 Paris Cedex 06
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