The Computational and Neural Basis of Cognitive Dynamics and Diversity

Wed 29.01 10:30 - 11:30

Abstract: Humans adapt their behavior across multiple timescales: from rapid adjustments to changing contexts to lifelong tendencies in how they approach tasks. This variation across time and individuals poses a challenge for identifying the cognitive strategies people use and the neural processes that support them. My research combines computational modeling and neuroimaging to uncover the strategies individuals use and reveal how their dynamics are reflected in neural activity and constrained by brain structure. In this talk I will mainly present my work on computational modeling of cognitive dynamics over weeks. I will briefly describe my work on mapping of human white matter, and my current work on the computational and neural bases of creative search. I will conclude by outlining my future research aimed at uncovering the core principles that drive both the dynamics and diversity of human cognition.
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Speaker

Roey Schurr

The Hebrew University

Roey Schurr, a computational cognitive neuroscientist, whose research focuses on the cognitive strategies individuals use and who aims to reveal how they are reflected in neural activity and constrained by brain structure. Roey did his PhD in the HUJI (Brain Science center – ELSC), followed by a postdoc fellowship  in Harvard and is currently a postdoc at HUJI/ Psychology.