DAY 2    Session 3

MODERATOR  
ROBERT LIU 

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PANELISTS

EMILY DENNIS    Working outside the (acoustically isolated) box: studying how mice hunt for prey in the lab and outside.

Relevant reference:  Emily Jane Dennis, Ahmed El Hady, Angie Michaiel, Ann Clemens, Dougal R. Gowan Tervo, Jakob Voigts, and Sandeep Robert Datta:  Systems Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors in Rodents

THACKERY BROWN    Sensation in Service of Interpreting and Navigating Space

Keywords: virtual reality, machine learning, neuroimaging, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex 

Relevant reference: Thackery I Brown, Stephanie A. Gagnon, Anthony D. Wagner:  Stress Disrupts Human Hippocampal-Prefrontal Function during Prospective Spatial Navigation and Hinders Flexible Behavior

DEEPU MURTY   Moving beyond external reinforcers to the internal goal states they evoke.

Keywords: motivation, Episodic Memory, Trauma, Memory Representations

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QUESTIONS OF INTEREST

Publishing between sub-fields

Balancing 'real-world' measures with 'confounds'

How can we utilize virtual and augmented reality to understand how perception can influence or be shaped by learning?

What is the role of sensory reconstruction, from memory, in decision-making?

How do our internal motivational states provide a filter to the external world?

How does our knowledge of animal neuroscience help us better understand subjective constructions of the external world?