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Becket Ebitz

Professeur adjoint

Faculté de médecine - Département de neurosciences

Pavillon Paul-G.-Desmarais

r.becket.ebitz@umontreal.ca

Profile

Research expertise

Becket Ebitz is the PI of the noiseLab in the Departement de neurosciences. The lab is interested in how our internal states (our goals, beliefs, expectations, and even arousal) shape how we perceive and interact with the world. Our work combines (1) behavioral experiments, (2) direct, intracranial recordings from large populations of neurons, and (3) powerful causal perturbations. We use a variety of sophisticated computational methods to make sense out of neural activity and behavior. Although we are a neuroscience lab, we enthusiastically incorporate tools and insight from disciplines like artificial intelligence, economics, robotics, and ethology.

Affiliations and responsabilities

Projects

Research projects

2023 - 2029

Neuroscience of exploration

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: Université de Montréal
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-FEI sans restriction
2022 - 2029

Union Neurosciences et Intelligence Artificielle Québec (UNIQUE)

Lead researcher : Karim Jerbi
Funding sources: FRQNT/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FQRNT)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(RS) Programme de regroupements stratégiques
2023 - 2028

Canada Research Chair in the Dynamics of Cognition

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: SPIIE/Secrétariat des programmes interorganismes à l’intention des établissements
Grant programs: PVX50399-Chaires de recherche du Canada
2021 - 2028

Interactions between cortical stimulation and prefrontal population dynamics

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: IRSC/Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(PJT) Subvention Projet
2024 - 2027

Physical Bases of Cognitive Flexibility

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: Air Force Scientific Research - AFOSR
Grant programs:
2020 - 2027

Physiological and neurophysiological mechanisms for exploration and mistakes

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: CRSNG/Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et génie du Canada (CRSNG)
Grant programs: PVX20965-(RGP) Programme de subvention à la découverte individuelle ou de groupe
2020 - 2026

Physiological and neurophysiological mechanisms for exploration and mistakes

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: CRSNG/Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et génie du Canada (CRSNG)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(DGECR) Tremplin vers la découverte
2022 - 2025

FlyRanch: A Platform for Uncovering the Molecular Bases of Hidden Behavioral State Dynamics

Funding sources: Research Corp. for Science Advancement
Grant programs:
2022 - 2024

Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Becket Ebitz

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: Jacobs Foundation
Grant programs:
2022 - 2024

Bioenergetics of the Braine, Body and Mind

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: CIFAR - Canadian Institute for Advanced Research/ Institut canadien des recherches avancées
Grant programs:
2022 - 2024

Computational dissociation of the causes of cognitive rigidity in depression

Lead researcher : Alexander Herman
Co-researchers : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: NIH/National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subvention de recherche
2020 - 2024

Neurophysiologie cognitive et computationnelle de la prise de décision

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: FRQS/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRSQ)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Bourse de chercheur-boursier : Junior 1
2020 - 2024

Neurophysiologie cognitive et computationnelle de la prise de décision

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: FRQS/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRSQ)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Établissement de jeunes chercheurs Juniors 1
2021 - 2023

Neuroscience of exploration

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: FCI/Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Fonds des leaders
2021 - 2023

Data-driven discovery of continual learning algorithms from neural populations

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: SPIIE/Secrétariat des programmes interorganismes à l’intention des établissements
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Fonds d'excellence en recherche Apogée Canada/Bourse
2021 - 2022

Neuromodulatory Interventions to Regulate Flexibility in Brain and Behavior - Transfert de la subvention de l'Université du Minnesota

Lead researcher : Becket Ebitz
Funding sources: Brain & Behavior research Foundation
Grant programs:

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

Exploration and Learning

Wilson, R. C., Bonawitz, L., Costa, V. D., & Ebitz, R. B. (2021). “Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization.” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 38.

Chen, C. S.*, Ebitz, R. B.*, Bindas, S. R., Redish, A. D., Hayden, B. Y., & Grissom, N. M. (2020). “Divergent strategies for learning in males and females.” Current Biology 31(1).

Ebitz, R. B., Sleezer, B.J., Jedema, H.P., Bradberry, C.W., Hayden, B. Y. (2019). “Tonic exploration governs both flexibility and lapses.” PLoS Comp. Bio 15(11).

Ebitz, R. B., Albarran, E., & Moore, T. (2018). “Exploration disrupts choice predictive signals and alters population dynamics in prefrontal cortex.” Neuron 97 (2), 450-61.

Control Architectures

Ebitz, R. B., Tu, J. C. & Hayden, B. Y. (2020). “Rule adherence warps feature encoding in decision circuits.” PLoS Biology 18(11).

Ebitz, R. B. & Moore, T. (2019). “Both a gauge and a filter: Cognitive modulations of pupil size.” Frontiers in Neurology 9, 1190.

Ebitz, R. B. & Hayden, B. Y. (2021). “The population doctrine revolution in cognitive neuroscience.” Neuron, in press.

Ebitz, R. B., Moore, T. (2017). “Selective modulation of the pupil light reflex by microstimulation of prefrontal cortex.” Journal of Neuroscience 37 (19), 5008-18.

Ebitz, R. B. & Hayden, B. (2016). “Dorsal anterior cingulate: A Rorschach test for cognitive neuroscience.” Nature Neuroscience, 19, 1278–79.

Ebitz, R. B., Platt, M. L. (2015). “Neuronal activity in primate dorsal anterior cingulate cortex signals task conflict and predicts adjustments in pupil-linked arousal.” Neuron 85(3), 628-40.

Ebitz, R. B., Pearson, J., Platt, M. L. (2014). “Pupil size and social vigilance in rhesus macaques.” Frontiers in Neuroscience 8(100).

Ebitz, R. B., Watson, K. K., & Platt, M. L. (2013). “Oxytocin reduces social vigilance in rhesus macaques.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(28), 11630-5.

Disciplines

  • Neurosciences
  • Psychology
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Biology and Related Sciences

Areas of expertise

  • Cognition
  • Neuronal Systems
  • Motivation, Emotions and Rewards
  • Modelization and Simulation
  • Neuronal Modeling
  • Modeling of Learning Processes
  • Learning and Memory (Psychology - Biological Aspects)