Mar 14: Modelling depression in a foraging context

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Andrew Wikenheiser

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Mar 10, 2025, 1:43:51 PMMar 10
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Our paper for discussion this week will be:

Adaptive learning can result in a failure to profit from good conditions: implications for understanding depression
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4448095/

Where: Pritzker 3517
When: Friday, 9 AM


Neuro news of note this week:

1) Sutton and Barto received the Turning Award (the equivalent of a Nobel prize for computer science) for developing reinforcement learning, which has has a huge impact on neuroscience. Their justly-famous textbook has always been freely accessible. This lecture series by David Silver at google deep mind is based on the book, and is one of the best available online.

2) Groups of ants make better decisions than groups of humans, but individual humans outperform individual ants. Videos here; full article here
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