This 4-year full-time BBSRC DTP studentship provides full support for tuition fees, annual tax-free stipend at Research Council UK rates (currently £14, 057). The project is due to commence September 2016 and is open to UK/EU nationals only due to the nature of the funding.
About the project:
The brain is a prediction machine, using internal models to predict future outcomes, and errors in prediction to optimise internal models (Clark, 2013). To optimise our decision-making in an uncertain world, our brains compute two key computational signals when we learn what to expect from the world around us. The first, called Salience Prediction Errors, are errors in predicting important outcomes regardless of their valence. The second, called Reward Prediction errors, are errors in predicting the valence of outcomes. These errors are expressed as early ERPs.
This project will further our understanding of the neural expression of errors in learning. In a series of EEG studies we will utilise a combination of psychological and physiological manipulations to probe the nature of the ERPs corresponding to salience and reward prediction errors.
Supervisors: Talmi & El-Deredy
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