Chen Institute Workshop on Cross-Species Modalities in Cognition and Behavior
Friday, April 11, 2025
3:00PM – 5:00PM
Chen 100
The Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech is sponsoring its next workshop on Cross-Species Modalities in Cognition and Behavior. The workshop will explore human and animal comparison studies as well as research on cognition and behavior in different model organisms.
The Chen Institute workshop series is designed to introduce non-neuroscientists to some of the challenging problems facing our understanding of brain function, as well as to bring them up to date on the state-of-the-art knowledge and methods in different sub-fields of neuroscience. The goal of these workshops is to promote discussion and to forge new interactions and cross-divisional collaborations at Caltech.
The workshop will be moderated by Colin Camerer and Carlos Lois.
Speakers include:
Alicia Izquierdo
Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, UCLA Department of Psychology, UCLA Brain Research Institute
Izquierdo lab
Talk Title: Learning under Uncertainty: An eye toward translation across species
Jieyu Zheng
Graduate Student, Meister lab
Talk Title: The Unbearable Slowness of Being: The Limit of Human Behavior at 10 bits/s
Richard Andersen
James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience and Director, T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center
Andersen lab
Talk Title: Comparing human and laboratory animal studies
Antonio Rangel
Bing Professor of Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, and Economics
Rangel lab
Talk Title: The neuroeconomics of simple choice across species
Carlos Lois
Research Professor of Biology
Lois lab
Talk Title: Reliability, variability and resilience of neuronal function