Killam Seminar Series: Neural Mechanisms of Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff
Grâce à la générosité des fiducies Killam, Le Neuro convoque lors d’une série de séminaires des conférenciers d’exception dont les travaux passionnent ses chercheurs et ceux de l’Université ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ.Ìý
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Jeffrey D. Schall
Professeur, Département de biologie, Université York, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en traduction des neurosciences.
±áô³Ù±ð:Ìýchristopher.pack [at] mcgill.ca (Christopher Pack)
Abstract:ÌýAccording to canonical models of decision making, trading speed versus accuracy is accomplished by adjusting the threshold for the amount of evidence to be accumulated before responding. Rich Heitz, in Jeffrey Schall's lab, carried out the first neurophysiological study of speed-accuracy tradeoff, sampling neural spiking in the frontal eye field, superior colliculus, and supplementary eye field of monkeys performing an inefficient visual search task with instructed speed-accuracy emphases. Professor Schall will survey the neural findings, which were more complex but no less comprehensible than the canonical models. A major implication of these results is that the proposition linking neural activity to evidence accumulation is more veiled than commonly appreciated.