Posts Tagged ‘Flexible Learning’

Takaki Komiyama

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Ever wonder why practice makes perfect?

Our guest this weeks has been wondering the same thing. Dr. Takaki Komiyama is a postdoctoral fellow at Janelia Farms, currently working in the Svoboda Lab. He is interested in how the brain codes for flexible behaviors, such as learning to play tennis. With practice, you generally see an improvement in your game. Sooner or later, your swings become smoother and you become better at predicting where the ball will land. But how does your brain code for it all? Listen in to this week’s episode and find out.

More on the Svoboda Lab

Keywords:

  • 2 Photon Microscopy
  • Calcium Imaging
  • Flexible Motor Behaviors
  • Coupling

Schematic by A.C. Gontang

Seeing coupling through a window (Illustration by A.C. Gontang)

Illustration by A.C. Gontang

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Posted: March 3rd, 2010
Categories: Inqueries, Techniques
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