BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260627T162858EDT-4173MbkDuZ@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260627T202858Z DESCRIPTION:\nSupported by the generosity of the Killam Trusts\, The Neuro' s Killam Seminar Series invites outstanding guest speakers whose research is of interest to the scientific community at The Neuro and McGill Univers ity.\n\n\nRegister Now\n\nTo watch online\, click here\n\nHost: Stuart Tre nholm\n\n\nThe neural basis of flexible\, lifelong learning\n\nAbstract: I will present recent work demonstrating that the auditory cortex (AC) is n ecessary for sound discrimination learning but dispensable at expert level s. Rather than reflecting changes in sensory tuning or map expansion\, lea rning and performance rely on distinct higher-order computations—reward pr ediction for learning and action suppression to enable stable performance— implemented by spatially clustered neural ensembles. These clusters are or thogonal to classic stimulus-tuning\, revealing an organizational principl e that extends beyond sensory coding. I will close by shifting from single -task learning to our developing framework for studying lifelong\, multi-t ask learning in mice\, centered on our Continual Learning Mouse Playground : a fully automated\, high-throughput home-cage environment in which mice learn a progression of perceptual\, contextual\, and compositional tasks o ver months. This platform enables us to investigate how biological brains acquire\, reuse\, and recombine knowledge across the lifespan\, with a par ticular focus on the mechanisms supporting compositionality and generaliza tion.\n\nKishore V. Kuchibhotla\n\nAssociate Professor at Johns Hopkins Un iversity\n\nKishore grew up in Connecticut before going to MIT where he ea rned bachelor degrees in Physics and Brain/Cognitive Science and minored i n Political Science. He went on to earn his PhD in Biophysics at Harvard U niversity under the mentorship of Drs. Brian Bacskai and Bradley Hyman. Ki shore completed his postdoctoral work at the Skirball Institute at NYU wit h Dr. Robert Froemke. In his spare time\, Kishore is a bit of a political junkie having had a few stints working in Washington\, DC as a policy anal yst and as a consultant at McKinsey where he advised various government an d non-governmental agencies.\n DTSTART:20260526T200000Z DTEND:20260526T210000Z LOCATION:de Grandpre Communications Centre\, The Neuro\, Montreal Neurologi cal Institute\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2B4\, 3801 rue University SUMMARY:Killam Seminar Series: The neural basis of flexible\, lifelong lear ning URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/killam-seminar-series-neu ral-basis-flexible-lifelong-learning-372040 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR