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Jun 4, 2014
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June 4, 2014
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
James DiCarlo
Topics: Why study object recognition in the brain; comparison of behavior in humans and monkeys; overview of the ventral visual stream and the ventral (what) vs. dorsal (where) pathways; retinal receptive fields; simple and complex cells in V1;...

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Jun 2, 2014
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June 2, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Emily Mackevicius
Topics: Marr levels of analysis, types of learning (unsupervised, supervised, reinforcement), Hebb rule, LTP, correlation and covariance based learning, reinforcement learning, classical conditioning, conditioning paradigms, credit assignment...

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Jun 2, 2014
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June 2, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Gabriel Kreiman
Topics: General features of brain-based computations, brain anatomy, structure of neurons, equivalent electrical circuit, synapses, single neuron models at multiple resolutions, integrate-and-fire model, Hodgkin-Huxley model; empirical methods used...

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Jun 2, 2014
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June 2, 2014
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Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Jed Singer
Topics: Characterizing neural firing rates, tuning curves, identifying effective stimuli, modeling spike trains, integrating information across time and across neurons, estimating response using reverse correlation, decoding fundamentals, two-way...

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May 31, 2014
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May 31, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Samuel Gershman, Joshua Tenenbaum
Topics: (Sam Gershman) Application of Bayesian learning to motion perception; automatic structure learning
(Joshua Tenenbaum) Learning to learn: hierarchical Bayes; empirical studies of word learning and the relevant object features; transfer...
(Joshua Tenenbaum) Learning to learn: hierarchical Bayes; empirical studies of word learning and the relevant object features; transfer...

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May 31, 2014
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May 31, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Samuel Gershman
Topics: Basic introduction to parameter learning, structure learning, nonparametric Bayes, mixture models, conditioning as clustering, learning relational concepts, multi-level category learning, latent feature models, function learning, Gaussian...

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May 30, 2014
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May 30, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Lorenzo Rosasco
Topics: Supervised learning, nearest neighbor methods and overfitting, k-nearest neighbors - choosing k, bias-variance tradeoff, cross validation, regularization, least squares, linear systems, computational complexity, kernel least squares using...

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May 30, 2014
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May 30, 2014
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Lorenzo Rosasco
Topics: Determining which variables are important for prediction (e.g. given n patients and p genes, which genes are most important for prediction), sparsity (only some coefficients are non-zero), brute force, greedy approaches/matching pursuit,...
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May 30, 2014
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May 30, 2014
Part of
Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Lorenzo Rosasco
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May 29, 2014
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May 29, 2014
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
CBMM Speaker(s):
Tomaso Poggio
Topics: Introduction to the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines; aims of the summer course; understanding intelligence - how the brain and mind perform intelligent computations and how to make smarter machines - requires the integration of methods...