主题:Neural Mechanisms of Mental Simulation.
主讲人:
Kenji DoyaOkinawa
Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
时间:2016-03-22 13:00-15:00
地点:北京大学王克桢楼1113室
主持人:Dr. Jian Li
摘要:
The basic process of decision making can be captured by learning of action values according to the theory of reinforcement learning. In our daily life, however, we rarely rely on pure trial-and-error and utilize any prior knowledge about the world to imagine what situation will happen before taking an action. How such “mental simulation” is realized in the circuit of the brain is an exciting new topic in neuroscience. Here I report our recent works with functional MRI in humans and two-photon imaging in mice to clarify how action-dependent state transition models are learned and utilized in the brain.