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DESCRIPTION:Dissecting the components of animal behaviour as a window into
 \nthe human mind.  By Yogita Chudasama (Assistant Professor\,\nMcGill Psyc
 hology)\nSo much of our understanding of basic sensory and motor\nfunction
 s of the brain has derived from research in animals. \nRecently\, the use 
 of experimental animals has been extended to\nstudy more complex aspects o
 f cognition\, such as planning and\norganisation\, behavioural control and
  decision-making. How far can\nanimal models inform us of the complex feat
 ures of human\ncognition?  While the specific behaviours of different spec
 ies\ndiverge from humans in obvious ways (consider for example\, the\nsubt
 erranean lifestyle of a rat)\, their brains have the same basic\ncircuitry
 \, raising the possibility that they support analogous\ncognitive operatio
 ns. In this lecture\, I will discuss how\nneuroscientists have been able t
 o successfully exploit a conceptual\nframework\, derived from research in 
 human experimental psychology\,\nwhich decomposes cognition into its basic
  building blocks.  I\nwill present evidence that many of these cognitive c
 omponents are\nsurprisingly human-like in experimental animals as diverse 
 as\nnonhuman primates and rodents. Finally\, I will argue that the\ncombin
 ation of careful behavioural testing and targeted\nmanipulation of specifi
 c circuits in the brain of experimental\nanimals is presently our most eff
 ective means for understanding the\nbasic neural elements of human cogniti
 on.  These elements\,\nwhose neural bases are only now being discovered\, 
 are perturbed in\ncommon human brain disorders that involve emotional dysr
 egulation\,\ncognitive dysfunction\, and even psychoses.\n \n
DTSTART:20100909T220000Z
DTEND:20100909T220000Z
LOCATION:Redpath Museum\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C4\, 859 rue Sherbrooke
  Ouest
SUMMARY:Cutting Edge Lecture in Science:Dissecting the components of animal
  behaviour as a window into the human mind.
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/event/cutting-edge-lecture-sciencedissec
 ting-components-animal-behaviour-window-human-mind-165254
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