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SUMMARY:Human neuroscience in the wild - Dr Aldo Faisal\, Department of Ne
 urotechnology\, Imperial
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CONTACT:Deborah McSkimming
DESCRIPTION:Our research questions are centred on a basic characteristic o
 f neural systems: noise and structured variability in their behaviour and 
 their underlying meaning for cognitive mechanisms. Variability can be obse
 rved across many levels of biological behaviour: from the movements of our
  limbs\, the responses of neurons in our brain\, to the interaction of bio
 molecules. Such variability is emerging as a key ingredient in understandi
 ng biological principles (Faisal\, Selen & Wolpert\, 2008\, Nature Rev Neu
 rosci) and yet lacks adequate quantitative and computational methods for d
 escription and analysis. Crucially\, we find that biological and behaviour
 al variability contains important information that our brain and our techn
 ology can make us of (instead of just averaging it away): The brain knows 
 about variability and uncertainty and it is linked to its own computati! o
 ns. Therefore\, we use and develop statistical machine learning techniques
 \, to predict behaviour and analyse data. Using advanced body sensor netwo
 rks\, we measured eye-movements\, full-body and hand kinematics of humans 
 living in a studio flat and are going to present some insightful results o
 n motor control and visual attention that suggest that the control of beha
 viour "in-the-wild" is predictably different ways than what we measure "in
 -the-lab".
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit\, Chaucer
  Road
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