David Anderson - Neural Coding of Affective Internal States Underlying Innate Behaviors

Join the speaker for coffee, cookies, and conversation before the talk, starting at 11:45am. Neural Coding of Affective Internal States Underlying Innate BehaviorsAbstract Innate survival behaviors such as fighting, mating and predator defense are associated with affective or emotion states. Finding neural representations of such states using supervised analyses is challenging due to a lack of direct state measures. To overcome this limitations, we have performed unsupervised modeling of single-trial neural data acquired during naturalistic social behaviors, using recurrent Switching Linear Dy