题  目：How to exert cognitive control？

主讲人：Tom Verguts 教授 (Ghent University)

时  间：5月4日（周四）下午3:00-5:00

地  点：心理学院201会议室

摘要：

Cognitive control is the ability to withhold an automatic response in favor of a more appropriate but less evident option; consider the temptation to watch the important football game instead of studying for the big exam the following day. Although this type of temptation is (in one form or another) probably very familiar, and a lot of research effort has been spent on its characterization, the mechanism behind cognitive control remains elusive. I discuss how one can (slowly) chip away at the mystery of cognitive control, by attempting to understand it in terms of more familiar and better-understood processes. In particular, I will consider recent modeling and empirical research on how reinforcement learning, oscillations, and probability estimation can be leveraged to ground cognitive control.

主讲人简介：

Tom Verguts教授早年于比利时鲁汶大学获得博士学位，后一直在比利时根特大学任教，现为根特大学心理学系教授。当前的研究兴趣主要为计算认知神经科学、认知控制、强化学习，现已在Trends in Cognitive Sciences、Psychological Review、Cerebral Cortex等国际重要心理学和神经科学学术期刊发表论文100余篇。