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Feb 14, 2023
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May 5, 2023
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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Research
CBMM Speaker(s):
Akhilan Boopathy
CBMM Research Meeting: Akhilan Boopathy, MIT graduate student in the Fiete Lab
Abstract: The measure of a machine learning algorithm is the difficulty of the tasks it can perform, and sufficiently difficult tasks are critical drivers of strong...

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Apr 28, 2023
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May 4, 2023
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Computational Tutorials
Speaker(s):
Ting Qian, Noah Nelson
Tutorial on FindingFive
FindingFive is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting behavioral scientists’ web-based research by making it easy and cost-effective to implement experiments and collect data. With FindingFive, researchers can...

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May 2, 2023
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May 2, 2023
Part of
All Captioned Videos, #TeachMeSomething
CBMM Speaker(s):
R.T. Pramod
#MITTeachMeSomethingTuesday
Pramod RT, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Want to learn more? Check out this article and paper:
"Are There Really as Many Neurons in the Human Brain as Stars in the Milky Way?" from...

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Apr 25, 2023
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May 1, 2023
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
Speaker(s):
Leila Wehbe, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract: Aligning neural network representations with brain activity measurements is a promising approach for studying the brain. However, it is not always clear what the ability to predict brain activity from neural network representations entails...

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Apr 25, 2023
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April 25, 2023
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All Captioned Videos, #TeachMeSomething
CBMM Speaker(s):
Matt Wilson
#MITTeachMeSomethingTuesday
Can our brain hear when we're asleep? Matt Wilson, Professor of Neuroscience, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences #MIT
#TeachMeSomething
#TeachMeSomethingTuesday #...
Can our brain hear when we're asleep? Matt Wilson, Professor of Neuroscience, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences #MIT
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#TeachMeSomethingTuesday #...

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Apr 18, 2023
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April 25, 2023
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All Captioned Videos, #TeachMeSomething
Speaker(s):
Maya Taliaferro
#MITTeachMeSomethingTuesday
Maya Taliaferro, Research Scholar, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Want to learn more? Check out these articles:
"Brains on conlangs" by Jennifer Michalowski | December 12, 2022 [MIT McGovern Institute for...
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Apr 4, 2023
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April 18, 2023
Part of
Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
CBMM Speaker(s):
Tomaso Poggio, Joshua Tenenbaum, Martin Schrimpf
Speaker(s):
Phillip Isola, Ev Federenko, Sydney Levine
Panelists: Ev Fedorenko, Sydney Levine, Josh Tenenbaum, Phillip Isola, Martin Schrimpf;
Moderator: Tommy Poggio Abstract: Transformer models have been rapidly gaining popularity as they underlie some of the most advanced deep learning systems...
Moderator: Tommy Poggio Abstract: Transformer models have been rapidly gaining popularity as they underlie some of the most advanced deep learning systems...

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Apr 11, 2023
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April 12, 2023
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
CBMM Speaker(s):
Elizabeth Spelke
Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard University
Abstract: More than two decades after her death, Eleanor Gibson still may be the best experimental psychologist ever to work in the developmental cognitive sciences, yet her work appears to have been forgotten,...
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Apr 6, 2023
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April 5, 2023
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All Captioned Videos
CBMM Speaker(s):
James DiCarlo
"Indeed, for the past 20 years, the DiCarlo research team has been helping to build a contemporary scientific understanding of how a complex network of neurons in the brain processes images so that individuals recognize objects and faces, and they...

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Mar 2, 2023
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March 23, 2023
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All Captioned Videos, Publication Releases
CBMM Speaker(s):
Heather L Kosakowski, Nancy Kanwisher
Dr. Heather Kosakowski and Prof. Nancy Kanwisher describe their latest journal article being published in Developmental Science regarding a study of selective responses to music in infant brains.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc....