AM Session:

 

09.30 :: S. Shushruth, The varieties of abstraction in the primate brain

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Section I: Abstraction of sensory information

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10.00 - 10.30 ::  David Freedman, Mechanisms of abstract categorical decisions across sensory, cognitive and motor networks

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10.35 - 11.05 ::  Aldo Genovesio, From specificity to abstraction in the spatial and timing domains

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~Coffee Break 11.05- 11.20~

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11.20-11.50 ::  Stefano Fusi, The geometry of abstraction in human and non-human primates

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Section II: Abstraction of value

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11.55-12.25 ::  Diana Burk, How symbolic reinforcers become motivating through abstraction of value

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~ Lunch Break 12.30- 15.30 ~

 

PM Session:

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Section II continued

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15.30- 16.00 :: Erin Rich, Abstraction of reward context facilitates relative reward coding in anterior cingulate cortex

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16.05- 16.35 :: Anne Collins, Abstraction in human reinforcement learning

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         ~Coffee Break 16.35-16.50~

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Section III: Abstraction of rules and behavioral flexibility

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16.50- 17.20 :: Matthew Rushworth, Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex

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17.25- 17.55 :: Elizabeth Buffalo, Abstract representations in the monkey hippocampus

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18.00- 18.30 :: Xiao-Jing Wang, Structured knowledge emerges in trained recurrent neural networks

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~Panel Discussion 18.30-19.00~