53 - Mimi Liljeholm: The Neuroscience of Agency, Learning, and How It Helps Us Understand AI
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Bella chats with professor Mimi Liljeholm. Mimi is an associate professor in the department of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine, where she directs the Learning and Decision Neuroscience Lab. Mimi and her lab study a broad range of topics, including agency, causal induction, habits, altruism, and social transmission. She is interested in studying how humans discover and represent the predictive structure of their environment, how such knowledge shapes cognition, perception, and motivated behavior, and how these processes go awry in addiction and psychopathology. In addition, Mimi adopts a multidisciplinary approach and draws a wide range of methods from psychology, neuroscience, economics, statistics, and computer science.
53 - Mimi Liljeholm: The Neuroscience of Agency, Learning, and How It Helps Us Understand AI
53 - Mimi Liljeholm: The Neuroscience of…
53 - Mimi Liljeholm: The Neuroscience of Agency, Learning, and How It Helps Us Understand AI
Bella chats with professor Mimi Liljeholm. Mimi is an associate professor in the department of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine, where she directs the Learning and Decision Neuroscience Lab. Mimi and her lab study a broad range of topics, including agency, causal induction, habits, altruism, and social transmission. She is interested in studying how humans discover and represent the predictive structure of their environment, how such knowledge shapes cognition, perception, and motivated behavior, and how these processes go awry in addiction and psychopathology. In addition, Mimi adopts a multidisciplinary approach and draws a wide range of methods from psychology, neuroscience, economics, statistics, and computer science.