Carney Institute for Brain Science
Center for Computational Brain Science

CCBS Seminars

Breadcrumb

CCBS Seminars

The Center for Computational Brain Science Seminars Series features interactive research talks focused on computational brain science.

Cognition is an Emergent Property

Note: audio is silent for first 10 minutes of the presentation

Earl Miller slide

Speaker

Earl Miller, Picower professor of neuroscience, MIT

Traveling Waves in Cortex: Spatiotemporal Dynamics Shape Perceptual and Cognitive Processes

Lyle Muller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Western University

Speaker

Lyle Muller, assistant professor of mathematics, Western University

Mechanisms Underlying Natural and Artificial Modulations of Sensory Representations

Mechanisms Underlying Natural and Artificial Modulations of Sensory Representations”- Agostina Palmigiano, Ph.D.

Speaker

Agostina Palmigiano, postdoctoral research scientist, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

The Impacts of Environmental Inference on Decision Strategies

“The Impacts of Environmental Inference on Decision Strategies”- Tahra Eissa, Ph.D.

Speaker

Tahra Eissa, postdoctoral fellow, University of Colorado - Boulder

The Brain in Motion: “Causes and Dynamics of Drifting Neural Representations”

The Brain in Motion: Causes and Dynamics of Drifting Neural Representations

Speaker

Shanshan Qin, postdoctoral researcher, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Decoding human neuromodulatory signaling and its connection to reinforcement learning

CCBS Seminar: Decoding human neuromodulatory signaling and its connection to reinforcement learning

Speaker

Read Montague, Center for Human Neuroscience Research Fralin Biomedical Research Institute (FBRI), Department of Physics, Virginia Tech

Sequences and modularity of dynamic attractors in inhibition-dominated neural networks

Image showing a slide from the seminar and a subset of the attendees

Speaker

Carina Curto, Department of Mathematics and Center for Neural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Critical Brain Dynamics: From Theoretical Ideas to Practical Neuromarkers

Image of the event

Connectivity structure and activity dynamics in biological neuronal networks

Kumar Talk

Speaker

Arvind Kumar, Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Measuring behavior to measure the brain

Calhoun talk

Speaker

Adam Calhoun, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University

On the rational bounds of human cognition

Sebastian talk

Speaker

Sebastian Musslick, Ph.D. student, Princeton University

Extracting structure from high-dimensional neural data

Carsen talk

Speaker

Carsen Stringer, Computational Neuroscientist and Group Leader, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus

Untangling brain-wide current flow using neural network models

Rajan talk

Speaker

Kanaka Rajan, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Friedman Brain Institute

Practical sample-efficient Bayesian inference for models with and without likelihoods

Acerbi talk

Speaker

Luigi Acerbi, Assistant Professor, University of Helsinki

Neural reinforcement: re-entering and refining neural dynamics leading to desirable outcomes

Athalye talk

Speaker

Vivek Athalye, Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University

Geometry of Object Representation in Visual Hierarchies

Sompolinsky talk

Speaker

Haim Sompolinsky, William N. Skirball Professor of Neuroscience, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Information and randomization in exploration and exploitation

Wilson talk

Speaker

Robert Wilson, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

Learning distributed representations in the human brain

Schapiro talk

Speaker

Anna Schapiro, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Abstraction and inference in the hippocampal/frontal circuit

Behrens talk

Speaker

Timothy Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, University of Oxford