ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Neural algorithms and representations of flexible behaviour
Humans and other animals learn from experience and generalise it to new situations. This generalisation permits rich inferences from sparse data and building novel plans in the face of new obstacles. Yet our understanding of the neural mechanisms underpinning flexible behaviours is limited to simple situations such as spatial learning and only in the hippocampal formation. Flexibly behaviour and generalisation is much more than just space and the hippocampal formation – it is for any structured knowledge. Flexible generalisation lets you know that presents should be wrapped before being opened, in the same way as knowing that you can only vote if you are already registered. Such structured…
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