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Generating and shaping novel action repertoires

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Air date:	Monday, March 21, 2016, 12:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 309 (35 Live, 274 On-demand)
Category:	Neuroscience
Runtime:	01:02:50
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Description:	NIH Neuroscience Series Seminar To study actions is to study the way we do things, which is different than studying how we remember stimuli, or facts and events. Some actions are innate or pre-wired (like swallowing or breathing). Others are learned anew throughout life, likely through a process of trial and feedback. Dr. Costa’s lab currently focuses on understanding the processes mediating the latter. A growing body of evidence suggests that cortico-basal ganglia circuits are involved in action generation and selection, in skill learning, and in learning goal-directed actions and habits. They center their efforts on investigating the cortico-basal ganglia mechanisms underlying these processes using an across-level approach, from molecules to circuits. They chose to implement this integrative approach in mice because they combine the power of genetics, a mammalian brain with canonical cortico-basal ganglia loops that can generate and propagate oscillatory activity, and the possibility of accurately quantifying simple behaviors like action initiation (with EMG recordings or using inertial sensors) and stereotypic skill learning, and more elaborate behaviors like goal-directed actions.

NLM Title:	Generating and shaping novel action repertoires / Rui Costa.
Author:	Costa, Rui. National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): To study actions is to study the way we do things, which is different than studying how we remember stimuli, or facts and events. Some actions are innate or pre-wired (like swallowing or breathing). Others are learned anew throughout life, likely through a process of trial and feedback. Dr. Costa's lab currently focuses on understanding the processes mediating the latter. A growing body of evidence suggests that cortico-basal ganglia circuits are involved in action generation and selection, in skill learning, and in learning goal-directed actions and habits. They center their efforts on investigating the cortico-basal ganglia mechanisms underlying these processes using an across-level approach, from molecules to circuits. They chose to implement this integrative approach in mice because they combine the power of genetics, a mammalian brain with canonical cortico-basal ganglia loops that can generate and propagate oscillatory activity, and the possibility of accurately quantifying simple behaviors like action initiation (with EMG recordings or using inertial sensors) and stereotypic skill learning, and more elaborate behaviors like goal-directed actions.
Subjects:	Basal Ganglia--physiology Learning--physiology Psychomotor Performance--physiology
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WL 307
NLM ID:	101680591
CIT Live ID:	17447
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=17447

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