Séminaire - Sommeil, replay et apprentissage - Tim Behrens : Structuring Knowledge in the Brain During Rest

Stanislas Dehaene


Collège de France


Psychologie cognitive expérimentale


Année 2024-2025


Séminaire - Sommeil, replay et apprentissage - Tim Behrens :
Structuring Knowledge in the Brain During Rest


Intervenant(s) :


Tim  Behrens


Computational Neuroscience Group at WIN


Résumé


When a waiter asks you for money at the end of a meal, how does
your brain understand that it is the food you are paying for?
Similar relationships are everywhere in the world and
understanding them lets our brains choose good behaviours. Our
brains contain a model of the relationships between objects and
events in the world. What does this model look like? How is it
built? When we come across a new problem, how can we fit it into
to our current model? I will talk about current research in this
area with a focus on exciting recent findings about what is going
on during rest and sleep. When you are sleeping, or even sitting
down for a cup of tea, your brain is not resting. It is busy
updating and reorganising your model of the world. Finding
shortcuts through your knowledge, making new inferences from your
experiences. I will show some of the most interesting data in
this emerging field of understanding.