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Air date:	Monday, May 18, 2015, 12:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 334 (32 Live, 302 On-demand)
Category:	Neuroscience
Runtime:	01:10:44
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Description:	Neuroscience Seminar Series Dr. Cisek is interested in how the brain controls behavior. Many scientists approach this very large question by starting with perception and asking how the brain builds an internal representation of the world, and how it then uses this representation to guide action. In contrast, he studies behavior by starting with a concrete task such as a voluntary movement and asking what parameters of the task the brain must specify and control, and what information from the environment it may employ toward that specification. The goal here is an understanding of brain mechanisms for mediating interaction with the world, not necessarily of mechanisms for representing the world. A research program based on such an approach begins with questions concerning motor control and gradually works its way toward the perceptual systems which guide that control. One could say he is going backwards through the brain.

NLM Title:	Neural mechanisms of real-time decisions / Paul Cisek.
Author:	Cisek, Paul.
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Abstract:	(CIT): Neuroscience Seminar Series Dr. Cisek is interested in how the brain controls behavior. Many scientists approach this very large question by starting with perception and asking how the brain builds an internal representation of the world, and how it then uses this representation to guide action. In contrast, he studies behavior by starting with a concrete task such as a voluntary movement and asking what parameters of the task the brain must specify and control, and what information from the environment it may employ toward that specification. The goal here is an understanding of brain mechanisms for mediating interaction with the world, not necessarily of mechanisms for representing the world. A research program based on such an approach begins with questions concerning motor control and gradually works its way toward the perceptual systems which guide that control. One could say he is going backwards through the brain.
Subjects:	Brain--physiology Decision Making--physiology
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WL 337
NLM ID:	101660638
CIT Live ID:	15056
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=15056

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