Le Professeur Jeff SCHALL donnera le mercredi 3 septembre 2014 une conférence intitulée « Neurons, Circuits, Decisions and Actions ».
Cet événement (affiche 
) est organisé en collaboration avec l'Ecole Doctorale des Neurosciences et se déroulera dans l'auditoire MAISIN (Av. Mounier, 51), à 17h, sur le campus de Louvain-en-Woluwé (UCL).
ABSTRACT: This presentation will explore how neurons embedded in distributed circuits decide among alternatives, generate actions and evaluate the consequences of those actions. The argument will be developed based on neurophysiological and electrophysiological data obtained from macaque monkeys performing visual search and stopping tasks. These data provide a foundation on which to formulate and test formal computational models that provide an account of the processes instantiated by the diversity of neurons. The evidence argues that deciding, acting and evaluating are accomplished by distinct neural circuits located in partially overlapping anatomical structures.