70. Mona Garvert: Cognitive maps, fMRI adaptation, and computational psychiatry

BJKS Podcast

Mona Garvert is Lead Research Scientist at Alena where she uses her background in cognitive neuroscence to advance computational psychiatry. In this episode, we talk about her academic research on the neural basis of cognitive maps, how she got into this topic, fMRI adaptation , and her recent move from academia to working at Alena.
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Timestamps
00:00: How Mona started working on cognitive maps
15:28: Repetition suppression/fMRI adaptation
28:49: Start discussing Mona's paper 'A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal-entorhinal cortex'
40:07: Are discrete and continuous maps different in the brain?
43:37: Start discussing Mona's paper ' Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization'
55:50: Mona now works for Alena, doing computational psychiatry
Podcast links

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Mona's links

• Website: https://geni.us/garvert-web
• Google Scholar: https://geni.us/garvert-scholar
• Twitter: https://geni.us/garvert-twt

Ben's links

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References & links
Mona's talk at TCPW: https://www.quentinhuys.com/tcpw/events/mona-garvert/
Where Mona now works: https://alena.com/
Barron, Garvert & Behrens (2016). Repetition suppression: a means to index neural representations using BOLD? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Clark & Wells (1995). A cognitive model of social phobia. In Heimberg, Liebowitz, Hope, & Schneier (Eds.), Social phobia: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment.
Constantinescu, O’Reilly & Behrens (2016). Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science.
Doeller, Barry & Burgess (2010). Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network. Nature.
Garvert, Dolan & Behrens (2017). A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal–entorhinal cortex. eLife.
Garvert & Gollisch (2013). Local and global contrast adaptation in retinal ganglion cells. Neuron.
Garvert, Moutoussis, Kurth-Nelson, Behrens & Dolan (2015). Learning-induced plasticity in medial prefrontal cortex predicts preference malleability. Neuron.
Garvert, Saanum, Schulz, Schuck & Doeller (2023). Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nature Neuroscience.
Klein-Flügge, Barron, Brodersen, Dolan & Behrens (2013). Segregated encoding of reward–identity and stimulus–reward associations in human orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience.
Knudsen & Wallis (2022). Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Schapiro, Rogers, Cordova, Turk-Browne & Botvinick (2013). Neural representations of events arise from temporal community structure. Nature Neuroscience.
Stachenfeld, Botvinick & Gershman (2017). The hippocampus as a predictive map. Nature Neuroscience.

Chapters

1. How Mona started working on cognitive maps (00:00:00)

2. Repetition suppression/fMRI adaptation (00:15:28)

3. Start discussing Mona's paper 'A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal-entorhinal cortex' (00:28:49)

4. Are discrete and continuous maps different in the brain? (00:40:07)

5. Start discussing Mona's paper ' Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization' (00:43:37)

6. Mona now works for Alena, doing computational psychiatry (00:55:50)