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December 16, 2015
Scientists have long wondered if the human brain contains neural mechanisms specific to music perception. Now, for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a neural population in the human auditory cortex that responds selectively to...
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December 10, 2015
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NIPS 2015 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines
Panel discussion
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December 10, 2015
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NIPS 2015 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines
Neuroscience and the Quest for AI
How systems neuroscience can help in the quest for Artificial General Intelligence
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December 10, 2015
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NIPS 2015 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines
Towards Glimpses of a New Science of Brains, Minds and Machines:
Weaving Together Physics, Computer Science, and Neurobiology Our neural circuits exploit the laws of physics to perform computations in ways that are fundamentally different from...
Weaving Together Physics, Computer Science, and Neurobiology Our neural circuits exploit the laws of physics to perform computations in ways that are fundamentally different from...
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December 10, 2015
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NIPS 2015 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines
Hallmarks of Deep Learning in the Brain
Anatomically, the brain is deep. To understand the ramifications of depth on learning in the brain requires a clear theory of deep learning. I develop the theory of gradient descent learning in deep linear...
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December 10, 2015
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The Roles of Recurrent and Feedback Computations in Cortex
There are abundant recurrent connections throughout the brain, yet their functional roles remain poorly understood and these connections are notoriously absent in the successful body of work...
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December 10, 2015
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NIPS 2015 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines
The Neuroscience of Intelligence
Yesterday’s scientific research, starting with Hubel and Wiesel’s Nobel-prize winning work on the circuitry underlying visual processing in cortex, gave rise to today’s deep machine learning networks. Likewise, today...
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December 10, 2015
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Today’s Science, Tomorrow’s Engineering
The mission of CBMM is to make progress on the greatest problem in science — human intelligence. A new field is emerging bringing together computer scientists, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists to work...
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Sep 29, 2015
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September 29, 2015
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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Special Seminars
Speaker(s):
Jaan Tallinn
Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian computer scientist who participated in the development of Skype in 2002 and FastTrack/Kazaa, a file-sharing application, in 2000.
He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1996 with a BSc in Theoretical Physics with a...
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April 28, 2015
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
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Prof. Justin Wood, USC
Abstract: What are the origins of high-level vision: Is this ability hardwired by genes or learned during development? Although researchers have been wrestling with this question for over a century, progress has been hampered by two major...