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SUMMARY: Department of Neuroscience Seminar: Eric Yttri\, PhD (Carnegie Mel
 lon University)
DESCRIPTION: Talk Title: TBD Eric Yttri\, PhD Associate Professor\, Biologi
 cal Sciences and Neuroscience Institute Carnegie Mellon University The sele
 ction of actions is central to how we interact with the world\, a reality t
 hat is often not fully appreciated until this ability is lost through impai
 rments like stroke and Parkinson’s disease. Our goal is to establish how ne
 ural […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <h3><strong>Talk Title: TBD</strong></h3><p><
 a href="https://www.cmu.edu/ni/people/faculty/eric-yttri">Eric Yttri\, PhD<
 /a></p><p>Associate Professor\, Biological Sciences and Neuroscience Instit
 ute<br />Carnegie Mellon University <img class="size-medium wp-image-26167 
 alignright" src="https://neuroscience.wustl.edu/app/uploads/2026/08/Screens
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 >The selection of actions is central to how we interact with the world\, a 
 reality that is often not fully appreciated until this ability is lost thro
 ugh impairments like stroke and Parkinson’s disease. Our goal is to establi
 sh how neural circuits lead to these action selection decisions. The vital 
 ability to make appropriate actions requires the coordination of motor\, re
 ward\, and cognitive brain systems. While compelling research has been acco
 mplished in individual brain areas\, studying elements of neuronal circuits
  in isolation yields an incomplete and potentially misleading picture. Our 
 research approach is inclusive yet specific: interrogating the functional i
 nteractions between areas in a manner more typical of cognitive neuroscienc
 e\, while also identifying the computational contributions of individual ce
 ll types within each region. To establish the neural correlates of behavior
 \, we monitor the electrical activity of hundreds of individual neurons sim
 ultaneously. This feat is made possible using technology we helped design t
 hat records from an order of magnitude more neurons than the current state 
 of the art permits.  We have also developed unique computational methods to
  distill and analyze these data in new and meaningful ways.</p>
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kristin Abraham":MAILTO:kristin.abraham@wustl.edu
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