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SUMMARY: Latent Causes\, Prediction Errors\, and the Organization of Memory
 \, Yael Niv\, PhD (Princeton University)
DESCRIPTION: Yael Niv\, PhD\, is a Professor in the Department of Psycholog
 y at Princeton University.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-
 16109" src="https://neuroscience.wustl.edu/app/uploads/2021/08/PSY_YaelNiv_
 0004_Edit2.jpeg" alt="Yael Niv" width="200" height="215" /></p><p><a href="
 https://nivlab.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yael Niv</a>\
 , PhD<br />Professor<br />Department of Psychology<br />Princeton Universit
 y</p><p><strong>Hosted by:</strong> Julia Pai and Department of Neuroscienc
 e Trainees</p><p>This talk will be presented in-person and via Zoom.<br />W
 ebinar link: <a href="https://wustl.zoom.us/j/94442652549?pwd=WnlYTFRYMmZ4Z
 UY3RXNyRDFDYVFSdz09" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bit.ly/DoNSemin
 arSeries</a></p><p>No two events are alike. But still\, we learn\, which me
 ans that we implicitly decide what events are similar enough that experienc
 e with one can inform us about what to do in another. We have suggested tha
 t this relies on an implicit parsing of incoming information into “clusters
 ” according to inferred hidden (latent) causes. Moreover\, we have suggeste
 d that unexpected information (that is\, a prediction error) is key to this
  separation into clusters. In this talk\, I will demonstrate these ideas th
 rough behavioral experiments showing evidence for clustering in animals and
  humans\, and illustrating the effects of prediction errors on the organiza
 tion of memory. I will then tie the different findings together into a hypo
 thesis about how information about events is organized in our brain.</p><p>
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