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SUMMARY:The challenge to learn: New approaches to study the problem of stab
 ility vs. plasticity in the brain
DESCRIPTION:Learning and adaptation, the organism’s ability of flexibly rea
 cting and adjusting to its environment is central for brain functioning and
  behaviour. As such, learning has been broadly investigated under different
  labels in virtually all areas of neuroscience and cognitive science. Diffe
 rent approaches have been used; in particular, computational neuroscience h
 as addressed the computational bases of learning, while neuroscientific res
 earch in animals including humans has explored the implementation of these 
 computational principles in the nervous system. The essential challenge the
  brain faces is to allow for plasticity while keeping a certain level of st
 ability. How to act reliably in a complex environment, while acknowledging 
 and handling the fact that the environment itself will change over time? Th
 e present symposium will concentrate on the latest developments on the issu
 e of stability vs. plasticity on both computational and neural levels. Pres
 entations will focus on demonstrating how the nervous system maintains the 
 stability‐plasticity balance across different time scales, e.g. during perf
 orming a unimodal or crossmodal task or while acquiring knowledge such as o
 bject representations across the life span, as well as in response to injur
 y such a sensory deprivation or disease. While presentations from neuroscie
 nce will introduce recent findings of how learning is implemented in the ne
 rvous system, computationally oriented presentation will discuss contempora
 ry advances in traditional, dynamical and probabilistic frameworks for unde
 rstanding the rationale why these neural mechanisms are efficient for keepi
 ng the stability‐plasticity balance in the brain and thus for guaranteeing 
 adaptive behaviour. Image: pixabay.com\n\nContact and Registration\n\nThe e
 vent is open to anyone interested. Registration is free of charge. Please r
 egister via e-mail to Dr Ruth Narmann. Contact Dr. Ruth NarmannDeputy Head 
 International Relations DepartmentTel.: 030 - 203 8997 - 432E-Mail: ruth.na
 rmann@leopoldina.org
LOCATION:Hyderabad (Indien)
DTSTAMP:20251112T170935Z
DTSTART:20171128T080000Z
DTEND:20171129T183000Z
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