Abstract
Habituation is a pervasive form of learning that acts as a gateway to cognition, adaptatively allocating resources to novel information. Failure of habituation drastically impedes selective attention to meaningful events and wastes energy; however, the mechanisms of habituation remain poorly understood. There is substantial potential for utilizing a translational approach to understanding habituation because it can be elicited without verbal instruction, allowing comparable studies in both preverbal infants and animal models. The student will investigate cortical habituation by comparing electroencephalogram phenomenology in babies with data acquired in mice using invasive and interventional approaches to interrogate underlying mechanism.
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