Embedded thumbnail for Ken Nakayama: People Watching (and More)
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Jun 11, 2014
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June 11, 2014
Part of
Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Ken Nakayama
Topics: Beyond vision: action, navigation, social perception and behavior; correlation of brain size and social group size; Dennett’s three levels for predicting behavior: physical stance, design stance, intentional stance (to understand other minds...
Embedded thumbnail for Lindsey Powell: Developmental Social Perception
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Jun 11, 2014
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June 11, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Lindsey Powell
Topics: Infant studies reveal non-verbal building blocks for social perception; looking time methods: preferential looking (what/who is more interesting/pleasing), (de)habituation (what/who is similar), violation of expected looking (what is...
Embedded thumbnail for Andrei Barbu: From Language to Vision and Back Again
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Jun 9, 2014
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June 9, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Andrei Barbu
Topics: Importance of bridging low-level perception with high-level cognition; model system for a limited domain that can (1) recognize how well a sentence describes a video, (2) retrieve sample videos for which a sentence is true, (3) generate...
Embedded thumbnail for Patrick Winston: The Story Understanding Story
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Jun 9, 2014
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June 9, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Patrick Winston
Topics: Brief history of AI and arguments against the possibility of artificial intelligence; emergence of symbolic processing capability through evolution; strong story hypothesis: ability to tell, understand, recombine stories distinguishes human...
Embedded thumbnail for Shimon Ullman: Visual Understanding: State of the World, Future Directions
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Jun 9, 2014
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June 9, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Shimon Ullman
Topics: Overview of visual understanding; object categorization and variability in appearance within categories; recognizing individuals; identifying object parts; learning categories from examples by combining different features (simple to complex...
Embedded thumbnail for Boris Katz: Telling Machines about the World, and Daniel Harari: Innate Mechanisms and Learning: Developing Complex Visual Concepts from Unlabeled Natural Dynamic Scenes
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Jun 9, 2014
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June 9, 2014
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Boris Katz
Topics: (Boris Katz) Limitations of recent AI successes (Goggles, Kinect, Watson, Siri); brief history of computer vision system performance; scene understanding tasks: object detection, verification, identification, categorization, recognition of...
Embedded thumbnail for Bob Desimone: Visual Attention
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Jun 7, 2014
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June 7, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Robert Desimone
Topics: Change blindness; receptive fields increase from V1 to IT; clutter is a challenge for recognition; one computational purpose of attention is biased competition; training an object classifier using recordings from IT in monkeys attending...
Embedded thumbnail for Winrich Freiwald: Taking Apart the Neural Circuits of Face Processing
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Jun 7, 2014
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June 7, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Winrich Freiwald
Topics: Connection of face recognition to intelligence: social cognition and perception start with faces, e.g. facial expression and communication; requirements for face recognition: (1) detect face, (2) encode structural properties, (3) encode...
Embedded thumbnail for Matt Wilson: Hippocampal memory reactivation in awake and sleep states
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Jun 7, 2014
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June 7, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Matt Wilson
Topics: Role of hippocampus in formation of episodic memory (linkage of events) and spatial memory used in navigation (linkage of spatial locations); both capabilities depend on temporal sequence encoding; place fields emerge for rats on linear...
Embedded thumbnail for Laura Schulz: Cognitive Development and Commonsense Reasoning, Part 2, and Joshua Tenenbaum: Machine vs. Human Learning and Development of Intuitive Physics
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Jun 6, 2014
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June 6, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Laura Schulz
Topics: (Laura Schulz) Inferential economics; learning from instruction vs. exploration (Gweon, Pelton, Schulz, Cognitive Science 2011); rational learning through play
(Joshua Tenenbaum): General introduction to the CBMM research thrust on...

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