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Watch the video of Kevin Murphy's Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series talk, "Towards Machines that Perceive and Communicate."

In this talk, Kevin Murphy summarizes some recent work in his group which is related to visual scene understanding and "grounded" language understanding.
CBMM Memo No. 069: Do Deep Neural Networks Suffer from Crowding?

Crowding is a visual effect suffered by humans, in which an object that can be recognized in isolation can no longer be recognized when other objects, called flankers, are placed close to it. In this work, we study the effect of crowding in artificial...
New Electrical Brain Stimulation Technique Shows Promise in Mice | The New York Times

Pulses of electricity delivered to the brain can help patients with Parkinson’s disease, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and possibly other conditions. But the available methods all have shortcomings: They either involve the risks of surgery, fr
A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation | MIT News

Electrodes placed on the scalp could help patients with brain diseases. ... The new, noninvasive approach could make it easier to adapt deep brain stimulation to treat additional disorders, the researchers say.
CBMM Memo No. 068: ON THE FORGETTING OF COLLEGE ACADEMICS: AT “EBBINGHAUS SPEED”?

"How important are Undergraduate College Academics after graduation? How much do we actually remember after we leave the college classroom, and for how long?..."
Monkeys Have a Specialized Brain Network for Sizing Up Others’ Actions

Scientific American - Neuroscience | Bret Stetka | May 18, 2017

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The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)
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dedicated to the study of intelligence - how the brain produces intelligent
behavior and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines.

The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) is a multi-institutional NSF Science and Technology Center dedicated to the study of intelligence - how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines.

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A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation Electrodes placed on the scalp could...

June 1, 2017

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Excerpt: "Delivering an electrical current to a part of the brain involved in movement control has proven successful in treating many Parkinson’s disease patients....

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CBMM spotlight

Joe Olson: Learning Circuits

Joe Olson: Learning Circuits

Associated Research Thrust:

Neural Circuits for Intelligence

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Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

069

A. Volokitin, Roig, G., and Poggio, T., “Do Deep Neural Networks Suffer from Crowding?”. 2017.

CBMM Memo No:

068

B. Subirana, Bagiati, A., and Sarma, S., “On the Forgetting of College Academice: at "Ebbinghaus Speed"?”. 2017.

N. Grossman, Bono, D., Dedic, N., Kodandaramaiah, S. B., Rudenko, ii, A., Suk, H. - J., Cassara, A. M., Neufeld, E., Kuster, N., Tsai, L. - H., Pascu...

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Reinforcement Learning

Prof. Sam Gershman, Harvard University
This tutorial will introduce the basic concepts of reinforcement learning and how they have been applied in psychology and neuroscience. The second half of the...

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