Episode 163 -- Harel Shouval PhD

Thursday, February 2, 2017 Harel Shouval (UT Health, Houston) discusses building models for how time constants of neural circuits adapt to reflect the time constraints of the world.  For instance, learning requires associating cues and later rewards, yet the teaching signal (the reward) is temporally distant from the cue itself well outside the timescale of individual neurons. For reference, the discussion touches on these papers. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28018206 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26377457 Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.