Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP230101463

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP230101463

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

How the brain learns and uses inhibitory predictions. Humans and other animals readily learn about cues and actions that predict the absence of important events. Yet, how and where such inhibitory predictions are processed in the mammalian brain remains unclear. This project aims to demonstrate that inhibitory predictions are generally encoded and retrieved in the medial prefrontal cortex, without any detailed information about the absent events. It combines a unique behavioural approach with the latest tools for manipulation of brain activity in behaving rodents. The project expects to generate new insights into how the mammalian brain extracts inhibitory predictions from the environment to guide our behaviours and decisions in the most optimal way.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2023

End Date: 31-12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $562,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Behavioural neuroscience | Biological psychology | Learning motivation and emotion

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Behavioural neuroscience | Biological psychology | Expanding Knowledge In Psychology | Learning motivation and emotion

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