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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/ctn-sem
 inar-chris-sims-rensselaer-polytechnic
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:CTN Seminar: Chris Sims Rensselaer Polytechnic
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Room: DC1304\n\nTitle: Why Simplicity Enables Intelligence: Ef
 ficient Coding in Human\nLearning and Generalization\n\nAbstract:\n\nHuman
  intelligence depends critically on the ability to learn\nrepresentations 
 that generalize beyond past experience. While\nreinforcement learning theo
 ry formalizes how agents should act to\nmaximize reward\, it provides litt
 le guidance on how internal\nrepresentations should be structured to suppo
 rt generalization. In\nthis talk\, I propose that efficient coding provide
 s a unifying\nrepresentational principle. When agents are constrained to u
 se the\nsimplest representations compatible with reward maximization\, the
 y are\nforced to discover abstract structure in the environment and to\nse
 lectively encode features that matter for behaviour. I present a\ncomputat
 ional framework in which efficient coding augments the\nclassical reinforc
 ement learning objective\, leading to compact\ninternal state spaces that 
 support robust generalization. Behavioural\nexperiments show that this fra
 mework accounts for human generalization\npatterns that standard models s
 truggle to explain. I further\ndemonstrate that the same principle explain
 s long-standing\nregularities in perceptual generalization\, including the
  universal law\nof generalization. These results suggest that abstraction\
 ,\ngeneralization\, and perceptual similarity arise from a common\nnormati
 ve pressure to efficiently encode information under resource\nconstraints.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/brain-d
 ay-2024
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West room 1302 & 1301 (fishbowl) Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Brain Day 2024
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:This year's Brain Day is April 9th\, 2024. \nFULL EVENT DETAIL
 S\n[https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/brain-
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/ctn-fal
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SUMMARY:CTN Fall Reseach Day
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the meeting is to share with all the CTN faculty
  what\nwe are each up to and interested in\, and to hear from some of the\
 ngraduate students in each lab.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/ctn-sem
 inar-mazyar-fallah
LOCATION:EC5 - East Campus 5 305 Phillip St. Room 2004 Waterloo ON N2L 5Z5 
 Canada
SUMMARY:CTN Seminar: Mazyar Fallah
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:CORTICAL INTERACTIONS IN THE OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/ctn-sem
 inar-javier-f-medina-baylor-college-medicine
LOCATION:E5 - Engineering 5 200 University Avenue West Room 6111 Waterloo O
 N N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:CTN Seminar: Javier F Medina\, Baylor College of Medicine
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:A NEW NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR SUPERVISED LEARNING IN THE CEREB
 ELLUM \n\nJavier F Medina\, Baylor College of Medicine
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/april-2
 019-waterloo-brain-day
LOCATION:Canada
SUMMARY:April 2019 - Waterloo Brain Day
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:THE 13TH ANNUAL WATERLOO BRAIN DAY\n\n [side profile of a brain
  with people standing on top of it] The brain\nis a horrendously complex a
 nd poorly understood system that poses both\nan immense challenge - and po
 ssibly rich rewards - to neuroscientists\,\npsychologists\, philosophers\,
  and computer scientists.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/colloqu
 ium-series-2018-2019-0
LOCATION:E5 - Engineering 5 200 University Avenue West Room 6111 Waterloo O
 N N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Colloquium Series 2018-2019
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Joel Zylberberg\nYork University\n\n(LEARNING) VISUAL REPRESENT
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/colloqu
 ium-series-2017-2018-4
LOCATION:PAS - Psychology\, Anthropology\, Sociology 200 University Avenue 
 West Room 2464 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Colloquium Series 2017-2018
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Lana Trick\n[https://www.uoguelph.ca/psychology/lab/trick/dr-la
 na-tricks-website]\nUniversity of Guelph\n\nTHE LONG DRIVE HOME: SECONDARY
  TASKS\, MIND-WANDERING AND FINDING THE\nHAPPY MEDIUM BETWEEN OVER- AND UN
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/colloqu
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LOCATION:PAS - Psychology\, Anthropology\, Sociology 200 University Avenue 
 West Room 2464 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Colloquium Series 2017-2018
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Aimee Nelson [http://pace.mcmaster.ca/staff/aimee-nelson]\nMcMa
 ster University\n\nCHANGES IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MOTOR CORTEX THAT FO
 LLOW INCOMPLETE\nSPINAL CORD INJURY
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/april-2
 018-waterloo-brain-day
LOCATION:EV3 - Environment 3 200 University Avenue West Room 1408 Waterloo 
 ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:April 2018 - Waterloo Brain Day
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:THE 12TH ANNUAL WATERLOO BRAIN DAY\n\n [side profile of a brain
  with people standing on top of it] The brain\nis a horrendously complex a
 nd poorly understood system that poses both\nan immense challenge - and po
 ssibly rich rewards - to neuroscientists\,\npsychologists\, philosophers\,
  and computer scientists.
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