2/26 (三)邀請來自荷蘭 University of Amsterdam 的 Birte U. Forstmann 教授和 Leiden University 的 Steven Miletić 教授為大家帶來一場演講包含兩個講題和個別的 Q&A 時間，演講相關訊息請參考以下：

講題一：
Joint Modeling of the Deep Brain’s Form and Function
講者： Birte U. Forstmann 教授
時間： 2025-2-26（三） 13:10-14:00 含 Q&A
地點：成大社會科學院北棟 2 樓心理學系階梯教室
演講語言：英文
演講摘要：
The subcortex has paramount importance for cognitive processes and is affected early in
practically all neurodegenerative diseases. Yet, in the past decades, the human
neurosciences have been dominated by a cortico-centric viewpoint, while the human
subcortex, the Deep Brain, has remained relatively uncharted territory. It is notoriously
more difficult to study with non-invasive structural and functional MRI. Its nuclei are
small, numerous, and heterogeneous in (micro)structure and function, they lie deep in
hard-to-image brain regions, and most of them have been poorly characterized even with
quantitative ultra-high field MRI. According to the Federative Community on Anatomical
Terminology (FCAT, 1998), there are approximately 455 subcortical structures; only a
fraction of these are depicted in available standard MRI-atlases (Forstmann et al., 2017).
My research aims to pivot the prevalent cortico-centric viewpoint to a whole-brain
perspective on brain and cognition in health and disease. In this talk, I will present an
overview of past, present, and potential future advances that enable us to start charting the
terra incognita of the deep brain. To this end, I will show how multi-modal post-mortem
data can be used to augment multi-modal in-vivo data in the atlasing and characterizing
of small subcortical nuclei. I will introduce a novel Bayesian joint modeling of brain and
behavior that explores the functional role of cortico-subcortical loops in adaptive decision
making. Finally, I will explain how the combination of these methodologies will advance
a powerful vision of a truly whole-brain conceptual understanding of cognition in the
living human brain.

講題二：
Explaining multi-scale choice dynamics
講者： Steven Miletić 教授
時間： 2025-2-26（三） 14:10-15:00 含 Q&A
地點：成大社會科學院北棟 2 樓心理學系階梯教室
演講語言：英文
演講摘要：
Decision making is often studied in highly controlled experimental paradigms where the
environment is mostly stationary. This contrasts with the dynamic and non-stationary
environments in which humans evolved, which necessitates continuous adaptation of
behavior. My work proposes that adaptive mechanisms cause systematic fluctuations in
choice performance across trials, both in non-stationary and in stationary choice
environments. In this talk, I will present a set of experiments and formal models of choice
behavior that integrate adaptive mechanisms. Through these, I will demonstrate that
incorporating adaptive mechanisms in evidence-accumulation models is a promising way
forward to understanding not only how choice behavior changes across time, but also why
it changes