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Tony Zador

 

Wednesday 17th June 2015

Time: 4.00pm

 

Basement Seminar Room

Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR

 

"Cortical circuits underlying auditory decision making"

To study how animals use sensory information to make decisions, we have developed a rodent model of auditory discrimination.  We have found that a subset of neurons in auditory cortex, those that project to the auditory striatum, play a central role in propagating information beyond the cortex. Moreover,  plasticity at these corticostriatal synapses plays an essential role in the acquisition of the association between the sound and the action in this task. If time remains at the end, I may provide an update our on-going project to sequence the connectome.