Nick Bellono Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Unique Sensory System Adaptations Sensory systems often show enhanced rates of adaptation or evolutionary drift compared with other systems, reflecting an organism’s need to adapt to a specific ecological niche. Indeed, highly specialized structures have evolved to detect a diverse […]
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Dan Garcia Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department University of California, Berkeley
Anjan Chatterjee Department of Neurology Hidden brain responses to the aesthetics of people and places Location: Jon M. Huntsman Hall 260, 3730 Walnut St. Each year, the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2019-2020 theme is Penn Research on Neuroscience and Society. We are featuring faculty from four of […]
Matt Hall Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders Temple University Language Access, Language Proficiency, and Cognitive Development in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children The vast majority of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have limited access to linguistic input during infancy and toddlerhood. In addition, they typically experience delayed or incomplete mastery of […]
Timothy Lillicrap Google DeepMind Reward functions and the nature of explanation for intelligent neural systems The field of reinforcement learning has made astonishing progress by incorporating deep function approximators and adapting existing algorithms to work with them. Human-level performance has been obtained in a wide range of domains such as Atari, Go, Chess, […]