Speaker: Joshua Berke, Distinguished Professor and Division Chief Department of Neurology, UCSF

Time: 13:00-14:00 p.m., Jun 17, 2024, GMT+8

Venue: Rm. 101, Jin-Guang Life Science Building, PKU

Abstract: 

Dopamine is famously involved in reward, but exactly how continues to be the subject of debate. Two key functions include signaling reward expectations to promote motivated, effortful work, and signaling errors in those reward expectations, to promote learning. I will present recent and new studies from my laboratory examining each of these processes. We combine fast dopamine measurements, decoding of hippocampal activity, and novel behavioral tasks, to probe how animals compute reward expectations over multiple temporal and spatial scales.

Source: Center for Life Sciences