Next meeting today (May 8) at 12:15 PM in WAB 236! Jonathan Kasdin from Columbia's Gadagkar Lab will present his work on the role of dopamine in how songbirds learn songs.

Next meeting today (April 17) at 12:15 PM in WAB 236! Sonja Johnson-Yu from the Rajan Lab (@kanakarajanphd.bsky.social) will present ongoing work on modeling active electrosensing in artificial fish collectives.

Late post for our third meeting (April 3) of the semester: Ching Fang (@chingfang.bsky.social) from the Rajan Lab (@kanakarajanphd.bsky.social) presented ongoing work on understanding potential mechanisms for fast learning in animal navigation.

Next meeting tomorrow (March 6) at 12:15 PM in WAB 236! Kevin Mizes will discuss work he did while in the Olveczky Lab (@olveczky.bsky.social). Talk title: "Motor flexibility and automaticity in 'piano playing' rats"

Late post for first meeting (Feb 6) of semester: Tarun Kamath from the Sabatini Lab presented recent work on how hunger modulates exploration by suppressing dopamine signaling in the tail of the striatum.

Hello Bluesky! Harvard Medical School's RL and the Brain seminar meets in-person every other week to hear neuro/AI researchers present their latest work. Join us to hear about how dopamine relates to prediction errors, the behavior/representations of AI agents, improving RL algorithms, and more!