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Equipping artificial intelligence with motivation

We know that algorithms can be exceptional at solving individual tasks when given specific goals, such as winning a game of chess, but one thing they currently lack is intrinsic motivation.

20 January 2021
Robot
Research News

Dr Chunyu Ann Duan to lead new group at SWC

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Chunyu Ann Duan will be joining the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in summer 2021. Her lab will focus on understanding how animals make flexible decisions under risk and social influence, and the neural circuit mechanisms underlying these choices.

12 January 2021
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Mouse-controlled mouse helps researchers understand intentional control

Study sheds light on how the brain represents causally-controlled objects.

22 December 2020
Activation maps for individual animals
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Announcing the Speakers of the 2020 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series

Five early career neuroscientists will speak at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre about exciting discoveries in movement, learning, memory and maternal behaviour

8 October 2020
SWC building next to BT Tower

Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

How does the brain allow us to think, feel, see, smell, hear, laugh and love? By bringing together world-leading experimental and computational neuroscientists, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre's mission is to explain how activity in brain circuits gives rise to thoughts, sensations, memories and actions.

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SWC Virtual Seminar: Neuromodulation of cortical circuits for fear memories
By:
Dr Sarah Melzer
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
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18
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Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series: Learning and forgetting in primary olfactory cortex
By:
Carl Schoonover and Andrew Fink
Columbia University
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SWC Virtual Seminar: Cortical circuits for olfactory behavior
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Dr Cindy Poo
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
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