薛贵教授课题组邀请了Colorado State University的Professor Carol A. Seger到实验室讲座，欢迎感兴趣的老师和同学参加。讲座信息如下；
时间：5月27日，周二上午10点
地点：英东楼422
报告人：Carol A. Seger, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Colorado State University
报告题目：
Categorization: An Emergent Function of Distributed Neural Systems
报告摘要：
Categorization allows organisms to classify related stimuli and environments into generalized categories that guide the selection of appropriate behaviors. I argue that categorization is not an independent cognitive system, but rather an emergent property of fundamental cognitive and neural processes important for perception, memory, motor control, decision making, and cognitive control. In this talk I will present two recent sets of studies from my laboratory examining how categorization relies on neural decision-making systems. The first examines how the corticostriatal system connecting cortex and basal ganglia contributes to various aspects of visual category learning, including perceptual processing, accumulation of information relevant to categorization, category decision bound implementation, and motor response selection. The second examines how categorization and rule learning dynamically recruit large scale frontoparietal networks related to the decision making, working memory, and motor demands of the task, and relate these networks to intrinsic connectivity networks identified in resting state studies. I will conclude with a few words about my in-progress collaborations with faculty at South China Normal University.
报告人简介
Carol A. Seger studies the cognitive neuroscience of human learning and decision making, with a focus on the corticostriatal system.She is currently Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. She completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University, Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, and postdoctoral training at Stanford University.
