Thursday, March 2019
Molly Crockett
Moral Decision-Making: Conscience, Context, and Conformity Classical models of antisocial behavior propose that violence arises out of a failure of lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) to “put the brakes” on aggressive impulses originating in subcortical regions such as the amygdala and striatum. A new, alternative model proposes that LPFC does not directly inhibit aggressive impulses, but instead flexibly modulates the value of aggressive acts via corticostriatal circuits. I will present behavioral, pharmacological and neuroimaging experiments supporting the alternative model. The findings…
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Workshop on Efficient Coding and Resource-Limited Cognition
This workshop is currently full. Please contact econ-per@columbia.edu with any questions. Program Schedule 8:30-9:00: Arrival and Breakfast SESSION 1: Efficient Compressed Representations (Chair: Rava Azeredo da Silveira, ENS) 9:00-10:00: Keynote Lecture: Naftali Tishby , “Information Constrained Decision Making and Planning” 10:00-10:40: Noga Zaslavsky , “Efficient Coding and the Evolution of Semantic Systems” 10:40-11:10: Break 11:10-11:50: Matthew Botvinick , “Deep Learning and Structure-sensitive Credit Assignment” 11:50-12:30: Sophia Sanborn , “Efficient Coding Under Reward: Compressing to Learn in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning” 12:30-13:00: …
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