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Neal Morton
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Cognitive neuroscientist using neuroimaging and machine learning to understand the brain. Director of the Human and Machine Learning Lab at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (hamllab.org).
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The Human and Machine Learning (HaML) Lab is recruiting a PhD student to start in Fall 2024. If you’re interested in human learning, machine learning, and neuroimaging, apply to work with me at UWM! See hamllab.org/positions.html for more details about PhD training and the application process.
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November 2, 2023 at 6:27 PM
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I study how the brain organizes knowledge to guide reasoning and decision making. In my new lab at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, I will use fMRI and machine learning to examine how cognitive maps are formed and used to guide behavior in new situations.
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An overview of my recent research, which I will continue at UWM. I use fMRI to study how representational geometry, i.e., the relationship of neural patterns of different events to one another, reflects structure in the world (Morton et al. 2020, PNAS). I also use representational similarity methods to examine how semantic knowledge about real-world people and places is represented in the brain and how knowledge about different events becomes integrated in the medial temporal lobe (Morton et al. in press, Cerebral Cortex). Finally, I examine how statistical learning about regularities in when events occur provides clues about underlying structure in the world, which is represented in human hippocampus (Pudhiyidath & Morton et al. 2022, JOCN).
October 30, 2023 at 7:52 PM