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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

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

SWC Building

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

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

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.

SWC Virtual Seminar: Neuromodulation of cortical circuits for fear memories

Dr Sarah Melzer

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series: Learning and forgetting in primary olfactory cortex

Carl Schoonover and Andrew Fink

Columbia University

SWC Virtual Seminar: Cortical circuits for olfactory behavior

Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown