Talks in the ‘MBC’ Category

Protected: Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology graduate training seminar – Claire Donnat and Guillaume Riesen

Monday, January 27th, 2020

Protected: David Foster: “The cognitive map come alive: Explorations in hippocampal replay”

Monday, December 9th, 2019

Protected: Bruno Olshausen: “Sparse coding, manifold flattening, and persistence as organizing principles of visual representation”

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

Protected: Ellen Kuhl: “Connectomics of neurodegeneration”

Monday, November 11th, 2019

Protected: Demba Ba: “Population codes, behavior, and hierarchical sparse coding”

Monday, October 28th, 2019

Protected: Steve Ramirez: “Artificially manipulating positive and negative memories in healthy and maladaptive states”

Thursday, October 3rd, 2019

Protected: Kevin Madore: “Interactions between goal states, attention, and memory in episodic remembering”

Monday, June 3rd, 2019

Protected: Ian Eisenberg: “Uncovering mental structure through data-driven ontology discovery”

Monday, June 3rd, 2019

Protected: Mala Murthy: “Neural mechanisms for dynamic acoustic communication”

Monday, May 6th, 2019

Protected: Erik Winfree: “Neural network behaviors in natural and synthetic biochemical systems “

Monday, April 22nd, 2019

Protected: Tobias Gerstenberg: “Understanding “why”: The role of causality in cognition”

Friday, April 12th, 2019

Protected: Timothy Lillicrap: “New models and algorithms for addressing limitations in deep reinforcement learning”

Friday, April 12th, 2019

Protected: Marta Zlatic: “Multilayered recurrent architecture for computing teaching signals in the insect brain”

Monday, March 11th, 2019

Protected: Tirin Moore: “Neural circuits controlling the selection and persistence of sensory information”

Monday, February 25th, 2019

Kwabena Boahen: “Braindrop: A mixed-signal neuromorphic system that presents clean abstractions”

Monday, February 11th, 2019

Protected: Danielle Bassett: “Networks thinking themselves”

Tuesday, January 29th, 2019

Protected: Yuan Chang Leong: “Motivated perception: How the brain sees what it wants to see”

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

Protected: Brian Hsueh: “Activity-based projection mapping to identify cortical representations of internal states”

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

Protected: Stella Yu: “Computer vision beyond recognition”

Monday, December 10th, 2018

Protected: Bence Ölveczky: “Neural circuits underlying motor skill learning and execution”

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

Chelsea Finn: “Deep [meta] learning robots: Building unsupervised, versatile agents”

Monday, November 19th, 2018

Protected: Alison Gopnik: “What four-year-olds can do that AI can’t (yet)”

Monday, October 1st, 2018

Protected: MBC: Graduate Training Seminar Talk – May 21, 2018

Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Protected: Timothy Gentner: “Natural Acoustic Signals and their Neural Representation”

Tuesday, April 24th, 2018

Protected: Nora Brackbill: “Reconstruction of natural images from responses of primate retinal ganglion cells”

Thursday, April 12th, 2018

Tanya Glozman: “Shape analysis of white matter fiber bundles”

Thursday, April 12th, 2018

Kiah Hardcastle: “Understanding neural codes for navigation in medial entorhinal cortex”

Monday, April 2nd, 2018

Loren Frank: “Neural substrates of memory and prospection”

Tuesday, March 13th, 2018

Protected: Shaul Druckmann: “2018 MBC Symposium Introduction”

Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Protected: Krishna Shenoy: “Neural population dynamics underlying motor preparation and generation”

Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Protected: Haim Sompolinsky: “Emergence of categories: from neural manifolds to invariant perception”

Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Ila Fiete: “The dynamics of canonical cognitive circuits across waking and sleep”

Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Protected: Gilles Laurent: “Neural motion”

Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Protected: Dan Yamins: “Broadening and Deepening the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Computational Neuroscience”

Monday, February 26th, 2018

Protected: Shaul Druckmann: “Relating circuit dynamics to computation: robustness and dimension-specific computation in cortical dynamics”

Monday, February 5th, 2018

Samuel Gershman: “Believing in dopamine”

Monday, January 22nd, 2018

Richard G M Morris: “The retention of memory and creation of knowledge: a neurobiological model”

Monday, December 11th, 2017

Protected: Robert Knight: “Insights into Human Cognition from Direct Brain Recording”

Monday, December 4th, 2017

Anne Collins: “Working memory influences reinforcement learning computations in brain and behavior”

Wednesday, May 17th, 2017

Jack Gallant: “Functional mapping of the human brain: promise, problems and prospects”

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

Fred Rieke: “Parallel processing of rod and cone signals in retinal circuits”

Thursday, April 13th, 2017

Konrad Kording: “Deep Learning and the Unknown Unknowns of Neuroscience”

Wednesday, April 5th, 2017

Protected: Stephanie Palmer: “Understanding retinal response through the lens of prediction”

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017

Protected: E.J. Chichilnisky: “Science and engineering of advanced artificial retinas”

Friday, March 10th, 2017

Daniel Palanker: “Restoration of sight with subretinal photovoltaic arrays”

Friday, March 10th, 2017

Fred Rieke: “Retinal encoding of natural images”

Friday, March 10th, 2017

Stephen Baccus: “Modeling and perturbation of retinal computations”

Friday, March 10th, 2017

Bradley Voytek: “What might neural oscillations be good for?”

Wednesday, February 15th, 2017

Protected: Marla Feller: “Wiring up a circuit to perform computations: development of direction selectivity”

Tuesday, January 24th, 2017

Protected: Lisa Giocomo: “Components and computations for building adaptive maps of space”

Friday, December 9th, 2016

Protected: Ivan Soltesz: “Supercomputing the Hippocampal Neuronal Machine”

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

Lane McIntosh and Niru Maheswaranathan: “Deep Learning Models of the Retinal Response to Natural Scenes”

Thursday, November 10th, 2016

Jeremy Freeman: “Open source neuroscience”

Wednesday, October 19th, 2016

Jay McClelland: “MBC Symposium on deep learning – Welcome”

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016

Surya Ganguli: “Towards theories of deep learning: from semantic cognition to neural engineering”

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016

Quoc V. Le: “Large scale deep learning”

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016

Daniel Yamins: “Using behavorially-driven computational models to uncover principles of coritcal representaion”

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016

Anthony Wagner: “Overview of MBC Symposium 2015”

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

Ila Fiete: “A feasible detailed probe of the grid cell microcircuit”

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

Michael Hasselmo: “Entorhinal cortex, acetylcholine and the coding of time and space for memory”

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

Bruce L. McNaughton: “Is the hippocampus an autoassociator for general, non-spatial events?”

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

Lisa Giocomo: MBC Symposium Panel and Audience Discussion

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

MBC Symposium: Jay McClelland – Welcome and Update

Friday, February 28th, 2014

MBC Symposium: Surya Ganguli – Introduction and Overview

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Bruno Olshausen: “Sparse coding in brains and machines”

Friday, February 28th, 2014

David Donoho: “Sparsity and Optimization — some history and some questions”

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Dmitri Chklovskii: “Towards a holistic view of single-neuron computation”

Friday, February 28th, 2014

MBC Symposium 2014: Panel Discussion

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Distributed Computation through Neural Dynamics: Welcome Address (Jay McClelland)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Distributed Computation through Neural Dynamics: Overview (Surya Ganguli)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Fred Wolf: Turbulent relationships – chaos and information-flow in neuronal circuits

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

MBC Symposium: Panel and audience discussion

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Matthew Lambon Ralph: “Semantic knowledge and the ability to use it”

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Paul Thibodeau: “Cross-domain knowledge sharing in PDP models”

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Karalyn Patterson: “The functioning of a degraded semantic network”

Friday, May 4th, 2012

McClelland, Jay – A PDP model of semantic cognition and its use in understanding the development of object knowledge in children

Friday, May 4th, 2012