The evolution of punishment

Punishment involves paying a cost to harm another individual and is thought to be a key mechanism that promotes cooperation. Nevertheless, it is not clear (1) whether punishment has the effect of converting cheats into cooperators or (2) how punishment can be favoured by selection, given that it involves costs to punishers. Here, I will use the cleaner fish-client mutualism as a model species to show that punishment does indeed promote cooperation in some contexts.

New trends in decision-making: decision as inference?

How best to describe the cognitive process by which we categorize sensory stimuli, evaluate our options and anticipate the future? This single-day, single-track symposium will gather a group of researchers interested in the computational characterization of decision-making in terms of an inference process, from different perspectives. The symposium will be divided into four sessions of two talks, each session focusing on a particular aspect of the decision process.

The symposium is funded by Inserm and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

Computational Neuroimaging of Human Auditory Cortex

Just by listening, humans can determine who is talking to them, whether a window in their house is open or shut, or what their child dropped on the floor in the next room. This ability to derive information from sound is enabled by a cascade of neuronal processing stages that transform the sound waveform entering the ear into cortical representations that are presumed to make behaviorally important sound properties explicit.

Do neural oscillations modulate information processing in the brain? From routing states to computing modes.

GNT External Seminar Series

Abstract:

Perception, cognition and behavior rely on flexible communication
between microcircuits in distinct cortical regions.
The mechanisms underlying rapid information rerouting between such
microcircuits are still unknown. It has been proposed based on growing
experimental evidence that changing patterns of coherence between
local gamma rhythms support flexible information rerouting. The
stochastic and transient nature of gamma oscillations in vivo,

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