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SUMMARY:Talk John O'Doherty (NEURO-Connect seminar)
DESCRIPTION:The brain as a mixture of experts: the neurocomputational basis of multiple parallel systems for learning and control  It has long been suggested that human behavior can be understood as reflecting the contributions of multiple systems that cooperate or compete for the control of behavior. Here we suggest that the brain can be thought of as a “Mixture of Experts” in which multiple different expert systems propose strategies for action. Here I will consider how the brain determines which system should control behavior at any one moment in time. It will be argued that this is accomplished by keeping track of the reliability of the predictions within each system\, and by allocating control over behavior in a manner that is proportional to the relative reliability of those predictions. I will present behavioral evidence for the existence of a reliability-based control mechanism operating over multiple experts in humans. These include model-based and model-free reinforcement-learning strategies that learn to select actions on the basis of direct experience\, experts that learn to select actions through observing the behavior of other agents\, as well as a system that reflexively takes actions based solely on visual affordances. I will then present some neuroimaging and neurostimulation data that suggest a specific contribution of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in this reliability-based arbitration process. Results from the study of different expert systems in both experiential and social-learning domains hints at the possibility that this reliability-based control mechanism is domain general\, exerting control over many different expert systems simultaneously in order to yield sophisticated behavior.   ON SITE  &  ZOOM Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85214333449?pwd=Gqyn4bGIaaQbQLeqL22s5ntA6bXM2m.1  Meeting ID: 852 1433 3449 Passcode: 725766
URL:https://neurocenter-unige.ch/fr/agenda/talk-john-odoherty-neuro-connect-seminar/
LOCATION:H8-01-D
CATEGORIES:Seminars psychology
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