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SUMMARY: Spontaneous Behavior is Structured by Reinforcement without Explic
 it Reward\, Sandeep Robert Datta\, MD\, PhD (Harvard Medical School)
DESCRIPTION: Sandeep Robert Datta\, MD\, PhD\, is Associate Professor in th
 e Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p> </p><p><img class="alignright wp-image-90
 49" src="https://neuroscience.wustl.edu/app/uploads/2021/08/Headshot-Datta-
 cropped-289x300.jpg" alt="robert datta" width="195" height="208" /><a href=
 "http://datta.hms.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sandeep Robe
 rt Datta</a>\, MD\, PhD<br />Associate Professor<br />Department of Neurobi
 ology<br />Harvard Medical School</p><p><strong>Hosted by:</strong> Ahmad J
 ezzini\, PhD</p><p>This talk will be presented in-person and via Zoom.<br /
 >Webinar link: <a href="https://wustl.zoom.us/j/94442652549?pwd=WnlYTFRYMmZ
 4ZUY3RXNyRDFDYVFSdz09" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bit.ly/DoNSem
 inarSeries</a></p><p>Spontaneous behavior exhibits structure. Ethologists d
 escribing animals in the wild have long appreciated that naturalistic\, sel
 f-motivated behavior is built from modules that are linked together over ti
 me into predictable sequences. And yet\, it remains unclear how the brain r
 egulates the selection of individual behavioral modules for expression at a
 ny given moment\, or how it dynamically composes these modules into the flu
 id behaviors observed when animals act of their own volition\, and in the a
 bsence of experimental restraint\, task structure or explicit reward. Here 
 we use novel methods for characterizing and manipulating behavior in freely
 -moving mice in real time to reveal that learning and variability interact 
 to create the architecture of self-guided behavior. Our findings suggest a 
 broad model in which the composition of spontaneous behavior from elemental
  components is supported by the same circuits and mechanisms that enable ac
 tion selection in structured tasks.</p><p><a href="https://neuroscience.wus
 tl.edu/news-events/events/">Return to events calendar »</a></p>
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