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Learning to learn: sacrificing short-term reward for long-term gain

Choosing what to learn and deciding how to do so is a huge decision. Such choices can have significant long-term impact and we often decide to sacrifice a lot in the short-term to gain a bigger future reward. Neuroscientists are starting to unpack whether and why our brains may prioritise learning early on to yield considerable advantages long-term.

13 March 2023
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Making data sharing easier for neuroscience

The NeuroDataShare 2023 conference, hosted at SWC last month, centred around collectively addressing the challenge of how neuroscience data can be structured to facilitate reuse.

23 March 2023
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Understanding hippocampal predictive maps: a three-pronged approach

Last week, works from three groups were published in eLife, jointly addressing the question of how the hippocampus learns to predict the future state of the animal given the current state, known as the successor representation. The three papers offer different angles from which to understand this phenomenon.

20 March 2023
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Will artificial general intelligence one day be conscious?

With the rise of ChatGPT, we may be feeling a step closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI), the quest to create AI that can solve any general task that a human can. But even if we could create AGI, would it ever be conscious and how would we know? We spoke with 10 leading neuroscientists, who have all given seminars at SWC, to find out their thoughts. Here are their takes.

15 March 2023
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SWC students share their experience on the PhD programme including intensive training in systems neuroscience research and experimental techniques, close collaboration with colleagues at SWC and GCNU, and life in London.

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SWC Virtual Seminar: Bridging Neural Dynamics and Behavioural Modularity
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Dr Kanaka Rajan
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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SWC Seminar: Implementing flexible decision-making in single neurons and brain-wide circuits
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Dr Ning-long Xu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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ENSS: Neural mechanisms of multisensory learning
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Dr Zeynep Okray
University of Oxford
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