Chaz Firestone Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Johns Hopkins University Taking a machine’s perspective How similar is the human mind to the sophisticated machine-learning systems that can behave like it? Biologically inspired neural network models — including ever-more-popular DeepNets — have taken our field by storm, reaching human-level benchmarks in recognizing new […]
Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series
- Category MindCORE Seminar Series
- From January 1, 2018
- To July 11, 2024
Aaron Batista Department of Bioengineering University of Pittsburgh How Neural Population Activity Reorganizes with Learning Learning is difficult. Why? Your brain must change somehow to endow you with new knowledge and skills. We don’t yet know how exactly new knowledge is stored in the brain, let alone why this process takes time. We […]
21st Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture Cori Bargmann Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, The Rockefeller University title and abstract forthcoming Location TBA A reception will follow the lecture.
Helen Mayberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Depression Unstuck: Targeted Modulation of Mood and Motor Circuits using DBS Deep Brain Stimulation, the targeted modulation of discrete neural circuits using implanted electrodes, is an emerging experimental treatment strategy for patients with intractable major depression. As testing of DBS in this context has […]
Tali Sharot Department of Experimental Psychology University College London Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease The ability to use information to adaptively guide behavior is central to intelligence. My work describes the role of affect in this process. In this talk I will present our recent research characterizing the influence of affect […]