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    "pk": 28153,
    "title": "A Conceptual Ladder from Spikes to Behavior: Toward the Neural Basis of Dynamic Choices at Multiple Scales",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Reducing cognitive phenomena to neural activity is seen by\nmany as lacking in scientific utility. The conceptual chasm\nbetween electrochemical activity and the act of making a\nchoice is too broad to span in a single step. Instead, we adopt\na multi-scale approach to cognitive neuroscience by\nconstructing a conceptual ladder that incrementally climbs\nfrom neuronal spikes to cognitive processes with each step\noffering theoretic reductions. Here we propose a sequence of\nintermediate neurocomputational processes that are promising\nfor understanding an array of cognitive phenomena. We\nillustrate this approach in the context of the dynamics of\nchoice. These dynamics emerge from serial evaluation\nmediated by systems in frontal cortex and the basal ganglia.\nThe effect is to promote neural oscillations that provide a\nsubstrate for communication through coherence. Both\nempirical and simulation studies are described to support this\nview of emergent behavior.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "spiking neural networks; synchrony; coherence"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3st5161c",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Timothy",
            "middle_name": "M",
            "last_name": "Shea",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Merced",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Noelle",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Merced",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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