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Much of what we know about stimulus-response habit learning comes from experiments performed with non-human animals, and the precise location and nature of the habit learning system in the human brain remains unclear. For example, in the rat, subregions of the striatum that underlie goal-directed and habit behavior have been discovered using lesion techniques, but research on the extent to which this subregional specificity holds in the human brain has yielded mixed results. In this talk, I will discuss a recent meta-analysis of the human habit learning literature, and present empirical work from our lab on how stress and distraction influence habit learning in humans. | Much of what we know about stimulus-response habit learning comes from experiments performed with non-human animals, and the precise location and nature of the habit learning system in the human brain remains unclear. For example, in the rat, subregions of the striatum that underlie goal-directed and habit behavior have been discovered using lesion techniques, but research on the extent to which this subregional specificity holds in the human brain has yielded mixed results. In this talk, I will discuss a recent meta-analysis of the human habit learning literature, and present empirical work from our lab on how stress and distraction influence habit learning in humans. | ||
Revision as of 20:41, 20 April 2016
This Week
Tara Patterson
Title: 'Stimulus-Response Habit Learning in Humans'
Much of what we know about stimulus-response habit learning comes from experiments performed with non-human animals, and the precise location and nature of the habit learning system in the human brain remains unclear. For example, in the rat, subregions of the striatum that underlie goal-directed and habit behavior have been discovered using lesion techniques, but research on the extent to which this subregional specificity holds in the human brain has yielded mixed results. In this talk, I will discuss a recent meta-analysis of the human habit learning literature, and present empirical work from our lab on how stress and distraction influence habit learning in humans.
Relevant papers:
Iaria et al., 2003: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/23/13/5945.long Tricomi et al., 2009: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06796.x/full Schwabe & Wolf, 2012: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/32/11042.full Patterson et al., 2013: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.22174/full
About Us
Introduction
The Integrative Center for Learning and Memory (ICLM) is a multidisciplinary center of UCLA labs devoted to understanding the neural basis of learning and memory and its disorders. This will require a unified approach across different levels of analysis, including;
1. Elucidating the molecular cellular and systems mechanisms that allow neurons and synapses to undergo the long-term changes that ultimately correspond to 'neural memories'.
2. Understanding how functional dynamics and computations emerge from complex circuits of neurons, and how plasticity governs these processes.
3. Describing the neural systems in which different forms of learning and memory take place, and how these systems interact to ultimately generate behavior and cognition.
History of ICLM
The Integrative Center for Learning and Memory formally LMP started in its current form in 1998, and has served as a platform for many interactions and collaborations within UCLA. A key event organized by the group is the weekly ICLM Journal Club. For more than 10 years, graduate students, postdocs, principal investigators, and invited speakers have presented on topics ranging from the molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, through computational models of learning, to behavior and cognition. Dean Buonomano oversees the ICLM journal club with help of student/post doctoral organizers. For other events organized by ICLM go to http://www.iclm.ucla.edu/Events.html.
Current Organizers:
Walt Babiec (O'Dell Lab) & Helen Motanis (Buonomano Lab)
Current Faculty Advisor:
Past Organizers:
i) Anna Matynia(Aug 2004 - Jun 2008) (Silva Lab)
ii) Robert Brown (Aug 2008 - Jun 2009) (Balleine Lab)
iii) Balaji Jayaprakash (Aug 2008 - Nov 2011) (Silva Lab)
iv) Justin Shobe & Thomas Rogerson (Dec 2011 - June 2013) (Silva Lab)
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