On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
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“What should I do next?” The answer is simple if there is one obvious choice but complicated if there are multiple options and no standout winner. The brain can deal with both scenarios, engaging circuits that drive more automatic responses in some cases and circuits that support deliberation in others. Understanding how this cognitive flexibility is implemented in the brain has the potential to reveal organizational principles for neural information processing. We have therefore carried out large-scale recordings studies in freely behaving rats performing cognitive tasks to identify signatures of dynamic circuit engagement. Here I will present results from two of these studies, including 1) observations of dynamic engagement of non-local hippocampal representations related to ongoing decision-making and 2) a demonstration of the necessity of the sequential neural activity patterns underlying non-local hippocampal representations for learning a specific task rule. These results highlight the differential engagement of hippocampal information processing at different times in support of flexible behavior.
