A/Professor Jai Yu - University of Chicago, USA : "How experience shapes future problem solving."
Speaker: A/Professor Jai Yu
University of Chicago
USA
Title: "How experience shapes future problem solving."
The brain learns from diverse experiences throughout the lifespan. How does the range of past experiences impact how new problems are solved? We investigate this question at the behavioral and neural levels by observing how rats learn different spatial navigation tasks as wells as recording neural activity across multiple brain regions. We found previous experience affected how rats explored new spatial environments but, unexpectedly, not how well they learned.
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