Zurna Ahmed
Postdoc in Cognitive (neuro)science and Machine Learning
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Young Investigator Award at the Neurizons Conference 2022
Postdoc Project
Embodied Curiosity: How Full-Body Exploration Shapes and is Shaped by Curiosity
This project aims to leverage information theory to design a paradigm centered on full-body exploration. Our goal is to investigate how different facets of curiosity influence exploration behaviors across different developmental ages and, in turn, how exploration behaviors shape the dynamics of curiosity.
What am I curious about?
I am interested in understanding exploration and information seeking behaviors and their underlying neural correlates in non-human primates and humans. To address these questions I develop new methods, which allow us to study primates in a ecologically more relevant setting.
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