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I am interested in how brains allow us and other animals to be intelligent. My focus is on how we flexibly reason, plan, and imagine in order to solve new problems, create new ideas, imagine new concepts, and more. A key idea is that these abilities depend on generalizing from prior knowledge. It is particularly important to be able to generalize in a manner that is compositional, by recombining simpler components of knowledge into increasingly complex concepts and behaviors. Moreover, this process can often occur largely “in our heads”, without needing to slowly and painstakingly test them out in the real world. For example, in using language, we rapidly recombine words and syntactical rules to utter new sentences with new meanings. In short, I want to understand how the brain enables compositional generalization. What neural processes and mechanisms underlie the representation and recombination of prior knowledge? How do these mechanisms relate to sensory information and behavioral output relevant in a particular situation?
I study these mechanisms by combining approaches from cognitive science, computational modeling, and systems neuroscience. My main research thread is on neurophysiological processes in non-human primates performing a new cognitive task I am developing, involving drawing, that tests the ability to generate compositional action plans to solve new problems. In a parallel thread, I am studying these same cognitive tasks in humans and building computational models of neural processes and of
behavior. My goal is a causal mechanistic explanation of compositional planning that links neurophysiology (in non-human primates) with cognition and behavior (in humans and non-human primates).
I study these mechanisms by combining approaches from cognitive science, computational modeling, and systems neuroscience. My main research thread is on neurophysiological processes in non-human primates performing a new cognitive task I am developing, involving drawing, that tests the ability to generate compositional action plans to solve new problems. In a parallel thread, I am studying these same cognitive tasks in humans and building computational models of neural processes and of
behavior. My goal is a causal mechanistic explanation of compositional planning that links neurophysiology (in non-human primates) with cognition and behavior (in humans and non-human primates).
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Lucas Tian, W Hamish Mehaffey,Michael S Brainard,Guy Wilson,Sergey Stavisky,Donald Avansino, Leigh Hochberg,Jaimie Henderson,Krishna Shenoy,Shaul Druckmann
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NIPS 2020 (2020): 2686-2697
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