Events

Title: Modular architecture of the mouse visual cortex

Presenter: Andreas Burkhalter, Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine

Title: Burstprop: a mechanistic theory for the orchestration of learning in cortex

A part of the brain called the hippocampus is thought to be crucial for learning and memory and implicated in many incurable disorders ranging from Autism to Alzheimer's. Hence, it is crucial to understand how the hippocampus works. Decades of research shows that hippocampal damage in humans causes loss of episodic or autobiographical memory. But, such memory traces in hippocampal single neurons are hard to find. Instead research in the rodent hippocampus shows that the neurons encode spatial maps, or place cells. Place cells are common in rodents but rare in humans or nonhuman primates.

May 31 14:30 Further details on room location to follow. This event will be in person.

Title: TBA

Abstract:

Speaker's website: http://www.karimjerbi.com/

CTN Seminar Talk

The origin of symmetry: Reciprocal feature encoding by cortical excitatory and inhibitory neurons.  

Talk Title: Understanding, Predicting, and Manipulating Image Memorability with Representation Learning

Further details to follow.

Our last seminar for Fall 2022 term will be Dec 6 at 14:30 with speaker Leyla Isik from Johns Hopkins joining us. The talk will be virtual and on Zoom.

Title: The neural computations underlying real-world social interaction perception

January 17 (virtual) - Sara Solla (NorthWestern)

Title: Low Dimensional Manifolds for Neural Dynamics

February 20 (virtual) - Eric Shea-Brown (Washington)
 

Title: When do high dimensional networks learn to produce low dimensional dynamics?

March 21 *IN PERSON* E5-2004 - Maurizio de Pitta (Krembil/UofT)*
 

Title: Neuron-glial switches