Computational Brain Sciences Talks

The computational brain sciences series has now joined with The Western Integrative Neuroscience (TWIN) Lectures Series, held on Thursdays 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM.

Past Talks:

Date

Time 

Place

Speaker

Title

10/03/19 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM WIRB 3000

Niko Kriegeskorte

Cognitive computational neuroscience of vision
09/26/19 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM WIRB 3000

Timothy Verstynen

Rethinking the computational architecture of basal ganglia pathways
06/11/18 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PAB 100

Lyle Muller

Traveling waves in cortex: spatiotemporal dynamics shape perceptual and cognitive processes
12/01/17 2:00 PM Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Benoit Delhaye
University of Chicago

Simulating tactile signals from the whole hand with millisecond precision
11/08/17 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PAB 100

Farouk Nathoo
University of Victoria

A Potts Micture Spatiotemporal Joint Model for Combined MEG and EEG Data
09/22/17 2 PM Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Federico De Martino
Maastricht University

Imaging the human auditory pathway at high fields: computational models and high-resolution functional and anatomical characteristics
05/12/17 3 PM PAB 100 Richard Blake
UofT
Deep learning with segregated dendrites
01/20/17 2pm-3pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI) Graham Taylor
University of Guelph
Dataset Augmentation in Feature Space
10/21/16 3pm-4pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI) Steven Prescott
University of Toronto
Somatosensory coding gone wrong: The origins of neuropathic pain
09/16/16 3:30pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI) Konrad Kording
Northwestern University 
Body vs world: who is responsible for my errors?
09/06/16 3:30pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI) Xiao-Jing Wang
New York University 
From cognitive-type microcircuit to large-scale modeling of the primate cortex
06/28/16 2pm-3:30pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Timothy Lillicrap
Google Deepmind

Deep reinforcement learning: recent applications in motor control, playing Go, and implications for neuroscience.
05/13/16 2pm-3pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Daniel Goldreich
McMaster

The Bayesian Brain: A soft touch for perceptual length contraction.
03/11/16 1pm-2pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Maurice Chacron
McGill

Optimized coding of natural sensory input
02/19/16

3pm-4pm

Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Cambridge

Deep neural networks: a new framework for understanding how the brain works