Donald Wilson Department of Neuroscience and Physiology NYU Smell in context: The role of top-down feedback and dynamic networks in olfaction Sensory cortices process afferent input in the context of activity from a wide variety of other inter-cortical inputs. These top-down inputs provide information about expectation, recent history and multisensory associations that modulate […]
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Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level, Levin Building) Joe Thornton, University of Chicago Real and potential histories in protein sequence space: chance, contingency, and the mechanisms of molecular specificity
David Barner Department of Psychology University of California, San Diego Linguistic origins of uniquely human abstract concepts Humans have a unique ability to organize experience via formal systems for measuring time, space, and number. Many such concepts – like minute, meter, or liter – rely on arbitrary divisions of phenomena using a system […]
Anne Christophe Ecole normale supérieure, Paris Title and abstract forthcoming Location: 3401 Walnut Street, Room 401B
Gasper Tkačik IST Austria Towards a unified theory of efficient, predictive, and sparse coding A central goal in theoretical neuroscience is to predict the response properties of sensory neurons from first principles. To this end, “efficient coding” posits that sensory neurons encode maximal information about their inputs, given internal constraints. There exist, however, […]