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Applied behavior analysis
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Seeking the new, learning from the unexpected: Computational models of surprise and novelty in the brain
Human babies have a natural desire to interact with new toys and objects, through which they learn how the world around them works, e.g., that glass shatters when dropped, but a rubber ball does not. When their predictions are proven incorrect, such as whe ...
EPFL2024Impact of Mitofusin 2 in the Nucleus Accumbens on motivated behavior and underlying neurobiological mechanisms
The nucleus accumbens (NAc) is part of the ventral striatum and plays a major role in motivation and goal-directed behaviour. Increasing evidence implicates impairments in accumbal function in anxiety and depression, two conditions that are commonly accomp ...
EPFL2024Non-invasive stimulation of the human striatum disrupts reinforcement learning of motor skills
Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Pierre Theopistos Vassiliadis, Elena Beanato, Esra Neufeld, Fabienne Windel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Traian Popa, Julie Duqué
Reinforcement feedback can improve motor learning, but the underlying brain mechanisms remain underexplored. In particular, the causal contribution of specific patterns of oscillatory activity within the human striatum is unknown. To address this question, ...
Nature Portfolio2024Measuring and shaping the nutritional environment via food sales logs: case studies of campus-wide food choice and a call to action
Robert West, Robin Adrien Zbinden, Kristina Gligoric
Although diets influence health and the environment, measuring and changing nutrition is challenging. Traditional measurement methods face challenges, and designing and conducting behavior-changing interventions is conceptually and logistically complicated ...
Frontiers Media Sa2024Unraveling behavior and cortical signals to guide the development of soft neuroprostheses for auditory restoration and spreading depolarization
Neuroprostheses have been used clinically for decades, to help restore or preserve brain functions, when pharmaceutical treatments are inefficient. Although great progress in the field has been made over the years to interface with the nervous system, surf ...
EPFL2024Involvement of prelimbic cortex neurons and related circuits in the acquisition of a cooperative learning by pairs of rats
Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Elias Georges Gebara, Ana del Rocio Conde Moro
Social behaviors such as cooperation are crucial for mammals. A deeper knowledge of the neuronal mechanisms underlying cooperation can be beneficial for people suffering from pathologies with impaired social behavior. Our aim was to study the brain activit ...
Springer2024Neurobiological and metabolic basis of motivation and effort-based decision-making - A human 1H-MRS, fMRI and machine learning study
Motivation is a multifaceted phenomenon that we explore within the framework of decision-making. Through this cognitive process, actions are directed towards specific goals by performing a trade-off between the cost and benefit of an action. The dorsomedia ...
EPFL2024QCD worldsheet axion from the bootstrap
Andrea Guerrieri, Victor Gorbenko
The worldsheet axion plays a crucial role in the dynamics of the Yang-Mills confining flux tubes. According to the lattice measurements, its mass is of order the string tension and its coupling is close to a certain critical value. Using the S-matrix Boots ...
New York2024Short-term behavior of glass fiber-polymer composite bending-active elastica beam under service load application
Thomas Keller, Landolf-Giosef-Anastasios Rhode-Barbarigos, Tara Habibi
Bending-active elastica beam is a structural configuration that is based on the elastic deformation of an initially straight beam. This deformation occurs when horizontal displacements are applied to a sliding support, causing the beam to bend into an arch ...
2024Formal Autograding in a Classroom (Experience Report)
Viktor Kuncak, Mario Bucev, Dragana Milovancevic, Samuel Chassot
We report our experience in enhancing automated grading in a functional programming course using formal verification. In our approach, we deploy a verifier for Scala programs to check equivalences between student submissions and reference solutions. Conseq ...
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