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The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing [video]

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Oct 25, 2021

Uploaded:

October 25, 2021

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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Research

CBMM Speaker(s):

Martin Schrimpf

Speaker(s):

Evelina Fedorenko

Graduate student Martin Schimpf (MIT/CBMM) and Prof. Evelina Fedorenko (MIT) discuss their latest publication in PNAS on predictive computational modeling and neural processing comparisons.

Attention Approximates Sparse Distributed Memory

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Oct 19, 2021

Uploaded:

October 20, 2021

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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Research

Speaker(s):

Trenton Bricken, Harvard University

Abstract: While Attention has come to be an important mechanism in deep learning, it emerged out of a heuristic process of trial and error, providing limited intuition for why it works so well. Here, we show that Transformer Attention closely...

What you see is what IT gets: Responses in primate visual cortex during natural viewing

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Oct 19, 2021

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October 20, 2021

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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Research

CBMM Speaker(s):

Will Xiao

Abstract: How does the brain support our ability to see? Studies of primate vision have typically focused on controlled viewing conditions exemplified by the rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task, where the subject must hold fixation while...

Liquid Neural Networks

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Oct 5, 2021

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October 8, 2021

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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Special Seminars

Speaker(s):

Ramin Hasani, Daniela Rus

Ramin Hasani, MIT - intro by Daniela Rus, MIT Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the nuts and bolts of the novel continuous-time neural network models: Liquid Time-Constant (LTC) Networks. Instead of declaring a learning system's dynamics by...

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Parallel systems for social and spatial reasoning within the brain's apex network

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Apr 27, 2021

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October 5, 2021

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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Research

CBMM Speaker(s):

Ben Deen

What is the cognitive and neural architecture of core reasoning systems for understanding people and places? In this talk, we will outline a novel theoretical framework, arguing that internal models of people and places are implemented by two...

Towards a mechanistic understanding of compositionality

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Sep 28, 2021

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September 30, 2021

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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Research

CBMM Speaker(s):

Lucas Tian

Efficient representation, learning, and planning through abstraction: clustering cognitive spaces into submaps

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Sep 15, 2021

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September 15, 2021

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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series

CBMM Speaker(s):

Ila Fiete

Abstract: Episodic memory involves fragmenting the continuous stream of experience into discrete episodes. Not coincidentally, the hippocampus, which plays a central role in both episodic memory and spatial navigation, represents large spatial...

Tutorial: Recurrent neural networks for cognitive neuroscience

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Aug 30, 2021

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August 30, 2021

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Computational Tutorials

CBMM Speaker(s):

Guangyu Robert Yang

Robert Guangyu Yang, MIT In this hands-on tutorial, we will work together through a number of coding exercises to see how RNNs can be easily used to study cognitive neuroscience questions. We will train and analyze RNNs on various cognitive...