About this Event
SWC (Hybrid) Seminar - Dr Adrian Haith, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
This event will take place on Thursday 17 July 2024 at 12.30pm.
The seminar will be held at 25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG. This central location provides easy access for attendees.
Talk Title: Information Bottlenecks in Sensorimotor Control
Abstract:
Current theories of motor control and action selection typically propose that the brain selects actions so as to minimize costs and maximize rewards. Increasingly, however, it is appreciated that the computations needed to select actions can themselves be costly, and this cost should be weighed against other costs and rewards in guiding behavior. I will outline an information-theoretic framework for quantifying the costs of computation for action selection, and show how this can be used to predict the impact of limited information processing capacity on motor behavior and explain some previously puzzling and contentious aspects of motor behaviour.
About the speaker: Dr Haith
Adrian Haith is an Associate Professor in the Neurology department at Johns Hopkins University. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, and his MSc and PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh. His laboratory focuses on understanding human motor control and motor learning using a combination of behavioral experiments and computational models.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, 25 Howland Street, London, United Kingdom
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