Video Lectures

List of video recordings of past seminars and courses (chronological order)

Miguel LÃ¡zaro-Gredilla: Wednesday 24th of January 2018; Miguel LÃ¡zaro-Gredilla, Vicarious, Inc.; Towards artificial general intelligence: Brain-inspired CAPTCHA breaking and Atari playing (video)
Zhaoping Li: Wednesday 13th of December 2017; Zhaoping Li, University College London; Looking and seeing in the primary visual cortex (video)
Joel Kaardal: Wednesday 29th of November 2017; Joel Kaardal, Salk Institute; Decoding the computations of high-level auditory neurons (video)
Jeff Hawkins: Thursday 16th of November 2017; Jeff Hawkins, Numenta; Have We Missed Most of What the Neocortex Does?
Allocentric Location as the Basis of Perception (video)
John Harte: Wednesday 08th of November 2017; John Harte, UC Berkeley; Maximum Entropy and the Inference of Patterns in Nature (video)
Caleb Kalmere: Wednesday 25th of October 2017; Caleb Kalmere, Rice University; Unsupervised Inference of the Hippocampal Population Code from Offline Activity (video)
Deepak Pathak: Wednesday 11th of October 2017; Deepak Pathak, UC Berkeley/BAIR; Curiosity-driven Exploration by Self-supervised Prediction (video)
Gerald Friedland: Wednesday 06th of September 2017; Gerald Friedland, UC Berkeley; A Capacity Scaling Law for Artificial Neural Networks (video)
Joshua Vogelstein: Wednesday 16th of August 2017; Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University; Discovering Relationships and their Structures Across Disparate Data Modalities (video)
Ken Miller and Brent Doiron: Tuesday 15th of August 2017; Ken Miller and Brent Doiron, Columbia University and University of Pittsburgh; The Stabilized Supralinear Network, or, The Importance of Being Loosely Balanced (Miller) /
Spatiotemporal profiles of spiking variability in recurrent networks (Doiron) (video)
Jordi PuigbÃ²: Tuesday 18th of July 2017; Jordi PuigbÃ², Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona - Spain); State Dependent Modulation of Perception Based on a Computational Model of Conditioning (video)
David Field: Monday 10th of July 2017; David Field, Cornell University; Selectivity, hyper-selectivity and gain control: A comparison of non-linear models in the early visual system (video)
Jasmine Collins: Wednesday 21st of June 2017; Jasmine Collins, Google; Capacity and Trainability in Recurrent Neural Networks (video)
Pentti Kanerva: Friday 09th of June 2017; Pentti Kanerva, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience; The Brain's Circuits Suggest Computing with High-Dimensional Vectors (video)
Saurabh Gupta: Wednesday 07th of June 2017; Saurabh Gupta, UC Berkeley; Cognitive Mapping and Planning for Visual Navigation (video)
Alex Terekhov: Friday 02nd of June 2017; Alex Terekhov, Paris Descartes University ERC FEEL; Signs of space (video)
Pierre Sermanet: Wednesday 24th of May 2017; Pierre Sermanet, Google Brain; Time-Contrastive Networks: Self-Supervised Learning from Multi-View Observation (video)
Michael Frank: Wednesday 22nd of March 2017; Michael Frank, Magicore Systems; The Future of the Multi-core Platform Task-Superscalar Extensions to Von-Neumann Architecture and Optimization for Neural Networks (video)
Chris Hillar: Friday 10th of March 2017; Chris Hillar, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience; Elements of Theoretical Neural Science (video)
Jozsef Fiser: Thursday 02nd of March 2017; Jozsef Fiser, Dept. of Cognitive Science, Central European University; Learning-based and behavioural evidence for probabilistic perception in the cortex (video)
Sahar Akram: Wednesday 01st of March 2017; Sahar Akram, Starkey Hearing Research Center; Real-Time and Adaptive Auditory Neural Processing (video)
Amir Khosrowshahi: Monday 13th of February 2017; Amir Khosrowshahi, Intel Corporation; Building a platform for machine intelligence (video)
Christoph von der Malsburg: Thursday 09th of February 2017; Christoph von der Malsburg, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and Platonite AG; The Neural Code Issue (video)
Gautam Agarwal: Wednesday 08th of February 2017; Gautam Agarwal, Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Portugal; A planning game reveals distributed patterning in player behavior (video)
Felix Wichmann: Monday 06th of February 2017; Felix Wichmann, University of TÃ¼bingen; Computational models of vision: From early vision to deep convolutional neural networks (video)
Marcus Rohrbach: Wednesday 30th of November 2016; Marcus Rohrbach, UC Berkeley; Intelligent systems which can communicate about what they see (video)
Pulkit Agrawal: Wednesday 09th of November 2016; Pulkit Agrawal, EECS, UC Berkeley; Learning to Forecast and Control from Pixels (video)
Eric Jonas: Wednesday 26th of October 2016; Eric Jonas, UC Berkeley; Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor? (video)
Douglas L. Jones: Tuesday 25th of October 2016; Douglas L. Jones, ECE Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Optimal energy-efficient coding in sensory neurons (video)
Yoshua Bengio: Tuesday 27th of September 2016; Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal; Towards bridging the gap between deep learning and biology (video)
Barbara Finlay: Thursday 08th of September 2016; Barbara Finlay, Cornell University; Evolving the visual brain: computational rules suggested by brain scaling and niche adaptations. (video)
Dan Stowell: Wednesday 07th of September 2016; Dan Stowell, Queen Mary, University of London; Inference using the timing of vocal sequences in songbirds (video)
Taco Cohen: Monday 27th of June 2016; Taco Cohen, University of Amsterdam; Group Equivariant Convolutional Networks (video)
James Blackmon: Wednesday 15th of June 2016; James Blackmon, San Francisco State University; Independently Conscious Brain Regions (video)
Melanie Mitchell: Wednesday 18th of May 2016; Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University; Using Analogy to Recognize Visual Situations (video)
Kwabena Boahen: Wednesday 23rd of March 2016; Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University; Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication (video)
Leon Gatys: Tuesday 01st of March 2016; Leon Gatys, University of Tubingen; From Texture Synthesis to Neural Art (video)
Miguel Carreira-PerpiÃ±Ã¡n: Wednesday 24th of February 2016; Miguel Carreira-PerpiÃ±Ã¡n, UC Merced; Optimisation of spectral and nonlinear embeddings (video)
Johannes BallÃ©: Friday 19th of February 2016; Johannes BallÃ©, Eero Simoncelliâ€™s lab at NYU; Density Modeling of Images using a Generalized Divisive Normalization Transformation (video)
Andrew Saxe: Wednesday 17th of February 2016; Andrew Saxe, Harvard University; Hallmarks of Deep Learning in the Brain (video)
Ping-Chen Huang: Wednesday 03rd of February 2016; Ping-Chen Huang, EECS, UC Berkeley; Bio-Inspired Artificial Olfactory System (video)
Mike Landy: Wednesday 16th of December 2015; Mike Landy, NYU; The Hebbian normalization model of cortical adaptation (video)
William Softky & Criscillia Benford: Monday 14th of December 2015; William Softky & Criscillia Benford, independent consultant (William Softky) and Stanford (Criscillia Benford).; Screen Addiction as Runaway De-calibration (video)
Steven Brumby: Wednesday 02nd of December 2015; Steven Brumby, Decartes Labs; Seeing the Earth in the Cloud (video)
Hillel Adesnik: Wednesday 18th of November 2015; Hillel Adesnik, UC Berkeley; Unexpected roles for inhibitory circuits in the neocortex (video)
Manuel Lopes: Tuesday 17th of November 2015; Manuel Lopes, INRIA, Bordeaux; Exploration Biases for Task Learning In Machines and Animals (video)
David Zipser: Friday 13th of November 2015; David Zipser, UC Berkeley; Astrocytes (video)
Chelsea Finn and Sergey Levine: Wednesday 04th of November 2015; Chelsea Finn and Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley; Robotic Visuomotor Learning (video)
Garret Kenyon: Friday 30th of October 2015; Garret Kenyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory; A Deconvolutional Competitive Algorithm (DCA) (video)
Laurent Dinh: Wednesday 14th of October 2015; Laurent Dinh, University of Montreal; NICE: Nonlinear Independent Components Estimation (video)
Jennifer Hasler: Tuesday 08th of September 2015; Jennifer Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology; Building a Large-Scale Neuromorphic Hardware Systems Roadmap (video)
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard: Wednesday 02nd of September 2015; Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Combinatorial Energy Learning for Image Segmentation (video)
Gonzalo Otazu: Wednesday 29th of July 2015; Gonzalo Otazu, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; The Role of Cortical Feedback in Olfactory Processing (video)
Xuexin Wei: Thursday 23rd of July 2015; Xuexin Wei, University of Pennsylvania; Efficient computation in the brain -- two case studies (video)
Lav Varshney: Wednesday 22nd of July 2015; Lav Varshney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Noise-enhanced associative memory, creativity, and other problems in faulty information processing (video)
Felix Effenberger: Tuesday 21st of July 2015; Felix Effenberger, Max Planck Institute; Discovery of salient low-dimensional dynamical structure in neuronal population activity using Hopfield networks (video)
Jason Yosinski: Friday 29th of May 2015; Jason Yosinski, Cornell University; Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and Perception (video)
Dan Butts: Friday 22nd of May 2015; Dan Butts, University of Maryland; Accounting for variability in the awake visual cortex (video)
Harri Valpola: Wednesday 13th of May 2015; Harri Valpola, ZenRobotics Ltd.; Combining supervised and unsupervised learning (video)
Santani Teng: Thursday 07th of May 2015; Santani Teng, MIT; The neural dynamics of Braille letter perception (video)
Alice Parker: Thursday 23rd of April 2015; Alice Parker, USC; The BioRC Biomimetic Real-Time Cortex: Focus on Nonlinear Dendritic Computations (video)
Vivienne Ming: Wednesday 08th of April 2015; Vivienne Ming, Socos, Inc.; From cognitive modeling to labor markets: estimating the economic cost of unrealized human potential (video)
Saeed Saremi: Wednesday 01st of April 2015; Saeed Saremi, Salk Institute; Correlated percolation, fractal dimensions, and scale-invariant distribution of clusters in natural images (video)
Jozsef Fiser: Wednesday 11th of March 2015; Jozsef Fiser, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University; Sampling: a probabilistic approach to cortical computation, learning, and development (video)
Bill Sprague: Wednesday 04th of March 2015; Bill Sprague, UC Berkeley; V1 disparity tuning and the statistics of disparity in natural viewing (video)
James Cooke: Tuesday 03rd of March 2015; James Cooke, Auditory Neuroscience Group, Oxford University; Neural Circuitry Underlying Contrast Gain Control in Primary Auditory Cortex (video)
Andreas Herz: Tuesday 03rd of March 2015; Andreas Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich; Neural representations of physical space: the benefits of phase precession and multi-scale codes (video)
Steve Chase: Wednesday 25th of February 2015; Steve Chase, Carnegie Mellon University; Internal model mismatch is responsible for the majority of errors in neuroprosthetic control (video)
David Zipser: Friday 20th of February 2015; David Zipser, UC Berkeley; Deconstructing and Reconstructing Vision (video)
Mark Lescroart: Wednesday 11th of February 2015; Mark Lescroart, UC Berkeley; Boundary contours and 3D surfaces: intermediate representations of objects and scenes (video)
Andrew Oxenham: Monday 09th of February 2015; Andrew Oxenham, University of Minnesota; Pitch perception: All in the timing? (video)
Rich Ivry: Wednesday 28th of January 2015; Rich Ivry, Dept. of Psychology, UC Berkeley; Embodied Decision Making: System interactions in sensorimotor adaptation and reinforcement learning (video)
Abraham Peled: Monday 26th of January 2015; Abraham Peled, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology; Clinical Brain Profiling: A Neuro-Computational Psychiatry (video)
Adrienne Fairhall: Wednesday 21st of January 2015; Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington; Learning and variability in birdsong (video)
Kevin O'Regan: Wednesday 14th of January 2015; Kevin O'Regan, CNRS - UniversitÃ© Paris Descartes; Using sensorimotor dependencies to understand the nature of perceptual experience and the notion of â€œbodyâ€ (video)
Dirk DeRidder: Tuesday 09th of December 2014; Dirk DeRidder, Dundedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand; The Bayesian brain, phantom percepts and brain implants (video)
Christof Koch: Tuesday 02nd of December 2014; Christof Koch, Allen Brain Institute; Consciousness (video)
Alex Huth: Wednesday 12th of November 2014; Alex Huth, Gallant lab, UC Berkeley; Mapping semantic representation in the brain using natural language (video)
Tamara Broderick: Wednesday 15th of October 2014; Tamara Broderick, UC Berkeley; Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxes (video)
Siyu Zhang: Wednesday 08th of October 2014; Siyu Zhang, HWNI, UC Berkeley; Long-range and local circuits for top-down modulation of visual cortical processing (video)
Alejandro Bujan: Tuesday 30th of September 2014; Alejandro Bujan, Bernstein Center, University of Freiburg; Propagation and variability of evoked responses: the role of correlated inputs and oscillations. (video)
Alyosha Efros: Wednesday 24th of September 2014; Alyosha Efros, UC Berkeley; Her Majesty the Data (video)
Joint Redwood/ICBS seminar - Gary Marcus: Friday 19th of September 2014; Joint Redwood/ICBS seminar - Gary Marcus, New York University; Computational diversity and the mesoscale organization of the neocortex (video)
Anna Levina: Friday 19th of September 2014; Anna Levina, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Self-organized criticality, criticality without self-organization and self-organization without criticality (video)
JÃ¼rgen Schmidhuber: Friday 15th of August 2014; JÃ¼rgen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Switzerland; Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity and Intrinsic Motivation (video)
Georg Martius: Wednesday 06th of August 2014; Georg Martius, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig; Information driven self-organization of robotic behavior (video)
Gautam Agarwal: Wednesday 23rd of July 2014; Gautam Agarwal, Redwood Center/UC Berkeley; Unsolved Mysteries of Hippocampal Dynamics (video)
Kelly Clancy: Wednesday 02nd of July 2014; Kelly Clancy, UC Berkeley; Volitional control of neural assemblies in L2/3 of motor and somotosensory cortices (video)
Peter Loxley: Wednesday 25th of June 2014; Peter Loxley, UNM, Los Alamos Campus; and Center for Nonlinear Studies, LANL; The two-dimensional Gabor function adapted to natural image statistics: An analytical model of simple-cell responses in the early visual system (video)
Stuart Hammeroff: Wednesday 11th of June 2014; Stuart Hammeroff, University of Arizona, Tucson; 'Tuning the brainâ€™ â€“ Treating mental states through microtubule vibrations (video)
Masataka Watanabe: Wednesday 30th of April 2014; Masataka Watanabe, University of Tokyo; Turing Test for Machine Consciousness and the Chaotic Spatiotemporal Fluctuation Hypothesis (video)
Guisseppe Vitiello: Tuesday 29th of April 2014; Guisseppe Vitiello, University of Salerno; Brain is a dissipative system. Is dissipation in conflict with the observed high effectiveness and reliability of brain functioning? The power law and coherence role in perception (video)
Jochen Braun: Tuesday 22nd of April 2014; Jochen Braun, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity (video)
David Pfau: Wednesday 16th of April 2014; David Pfau, Columbia University; Learning Structure in Time Series for Neuroscience and Beyond (video)
Robert G. Smith: Wednesday 26th of March 2014; Robert G. Smith, University of Pennsylvania; Role of Dendritic Computation in the Direction-Selective Circuit of Retina (video)
Richard Axel: Friday 21st of March 2014; Richard Axel, Columbia University; Order from Disorder: Representations of Olfactory Information in the Cortex (video)
Dean Buonomano: Wednesday 19th of March 2014; Dean Buonomano, UCLA; State-dependent Networks: Timing and Computations Based on Neural Dynamics and Short-term Plasticity (video)
Tom Mitchell: Friday 14th of March 2014; Tom Mitchell, Computer Science Dept., Carnegie Mellon University; Neural Representations of Language Meaning (video)
Carlos Portera-Cailliau: Wednesday 12th of March 2014; Carlos Portera-Cailliau, UCLA; Circuit defects in the neocortex of Fmr1 knockout mice (video)
Felix Effenberger: Thursday 06th of March 2014; Felix Effenberger, Max Planck Institut for Mathematics in the Sciences; Self-organization in balanced state networks by STDP and homeostatic plasticity (video)
Alexander Terekhov: Tuesday 25th of February 2014; Alexander Terekhov, Laboratory of Psychology of Perception, Paris Descartes University (Paris 5).; Constructing space: how a naive agent can learn spatial relationships by observing sensorimotor contingencies (video)
Ilya Sutskever: Wednesday 12th of February 2014; Ilya Sutskever, Google; Continuous vector representations for machine translation (video)
David Klein: Wednesday 29th of January 2014; David Klein, Audience, Inc.; Current technological applications in sensory learning (video)
Thomas Martinetz: Wednesday 22nd of January 2014; Thomas Martinetz, University of Luebeck; Orthogonal Sparse Coding and Sensing (video)
Kai Siedenburg & Stephen McAdams: Wednesday 11th of December 2013; Kai Siedenburg & Stephen McAdams, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Characterizing Short-Term Memory for Musical Timbre (video)
Zhenwen Dai: Wednesday 04th of December 2013; Zhenwen Dai, FIAS, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.; What Are the Invariant Occlusive Components of Image Patches? A Probabilistic Generative Approach (video)
Garrett Kenyon: Wednesday 06th of November 2013; Garrett Kenyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Using Locally Competitive Algorithms to Model Top-Down and Lateral Interactions (video)
Oriol Vinyals: Thursday 31st of October 2013; Oriol Vinyals, Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Beyond Deep Learning: Scalable Methods and Models for Learning (video)
Ilya Nemenman: Wednesday 30th of October 2013; Ilya Nemenman, Departments of Physics and Biology, Emory University; Large N in neural data -- expecting the unexpected (video)
Mitya Chklovskii: Tuesday 29th of October 2013; Mitya Chklovskii, Janelia Farm, HHMI; Understanding the building blocks of neural computation: Insights from connectomics and theory (video)
Ekaterina Brocke: Wednesday 09th of October 2013; Ekaterina Brocke, KTH University, Stockholm, Sweden; Multiscale modeling in neuroscience: first steps towards multiscale co-simulation tool development (video)
Ross Gayler: Friday 14th of June 2013; Ross Gayler, PhD in psychology from University of Queensland; VSA: Vector Symbolic Architectures for Cognitive Computing in Neural Networks (video)
Bijan Pesaran: Wednesday 22nd of May 2013; Bijan Pesaran, Center for Neural Science, NYU; Transforming sensory inputs into motor acts: Insights from looking, reaching and speaking (video)
Byron Yu: Wednesday 15th of May 2013; Byron Yu, Carnegie Mellon University; Joint Redwood/CNEP seminar: Internal model estimation for closed-loop brain-computer interfaces (video)
Harel Shouval: Friday 03rd of May 2013; Harel Shouval, UT Houston; What does Weber's law tell us about Neural Tuning Curves? (video)
Tom Dean: Friday 19th of April 2013; Tom Dean, Google; Scalable Neuroscience and the Brain Activity Mapping Project (video)
Wiktor MÅ‚ynarski: Wednesday 17th of April 2013; Wiktor MÅ‚ynarski, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences; Statistical Models of Binaural Sounds (video)
Mounya Elhilali: Tuesday 09th of April 2013; Mounya Elhilali, Johns Hopkins; Attention at the cocktail party: Neural bases and computational strategies for auditory scene analysis (video)
Dale Purves: Wednesday 27th of March 2013; Dale Purves, Duke University; How Visual Evolution Determines What We See (video)
Dolores Bozovic: Wednesday 20th of February 2013; Dolores Bozovic, UCLA; Bifurcations and phase-locking dynamics in the auditory system (video)
Valero Laparra: Thursday 07th of February 2013; Valero Laparra, University of Valencia; Empirical statistical analysis of phases in Gabor filtered natural images (video)
Jenny Read: Wednesday 30th of January 2013; Jenny Read, Newcastle University; Relating neurons to perception in stereo vision (video)
Goren Gordon: Tuesday 29th of January 2013; Goren Gordon, Weizman Institute; Hierarchical Curiosity Loops â€“ Model, Behavior and Robotics (video)
Carlos Brody: Wednesday 23rd of January 2013; Carlos Brody, Princeton University; Neural substrates of decision-making in the rat (video)
Dibyendu Mandal: Monday 14th of January 2013; Dibyendu Mandal, Physics Dept., University of Maryland (Jarzynski group); An exactly solvable model of Maxwellâ€™s demon (video)
Stuart Hammeroff: Monday 07th of January 2013; Stuart Hammeroff, University of Arizona; Quantum cognition and brain microtubules (video)
Ali Eslami: Friday 14th of December 2012; Ali Eslami, Univ of Edinburgh; Probabilistic models of object shapes (video)
Ian Goodfellow: Wednesday 12th of December 2012; Ian Goodfellow, University of Montreal; Joint Training Deep Boltzmann Machines for Classification (video)
Marius Pachitariu: Monday 10th of December 2012; Marius Pachitariu, Gatsby Institute, University College London; Learning visual motion in recurrent neural networks (video)
Yan Karklin: Friday 30th of November 2012; Yan Karklin, Center for Neural Science, NYU; Efficient coding of images and sounds: Hierarchical processing and
biological constraints (video)
Tom Griffiths: Wednesday 07th of November 2012; Tom Griffiths, UC Berkeley; Identifying human inductive biases (video)
Jonathan Landy: Wednesday 31st of October 2012; Jonathan Landy, UC Santa Barbara; Mean-field replica theory: review of basics and a new approach (video)
Jaimie Sleigh: Tuesday 23rd of October 2012; Jaimie Sleigh, University of Auckland; Is General Anesthesia a failure of cortical information integration? (video)
Sophie Deneve: Monday 08th of October 2012; Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences cognitives, ENS-INSERM; Balanced spiking networks can implement dynamical systems with predictive coding (video)
Jason Yeatman: Wednesday 26th of September 2012; Jason Yeatman, Department of Psychology, Stanford University; The Development of White Matter and Reading Skills (video)
Lucas Theis: Monday 30th of July 2012; Lucas Theis, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, TÃ¼bingen; Hierarchical models of natural images (video)
Jerome Feldman: Wednesday 27th of June 2012; Jerome Feldman, ICSI/Computer Science, UC Berkeley; The Neural Binding Problem(s) (video)
Mitya Chklovskii: Thursday 07th of June 2012; Mitya Chklovskii, HHMI, Janelia Farm; Understanding neural coding (video)
David Sussillo & Valerio Mante: Wednesday 14th of March 2012; David Sussillo & Valerio Mante, Stanford University; Integration and gating of sensory information is achieved by a single cortical circuit with orthogonal mixed representations (video)
David Sivak: Wednesday 07th of March 2012; David Sivak, Lawrence Berkeley Lab; Measuring free energy and finding optimal control paths for non-equilibrium systems (video)
Daniel Zoran: Thursday 01st of March 2012; Daniel Zoran, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; From Learning Models of Natural Image Patches to Whole Image Restoration (video)
Heather Read: Wednesday 29th of February 2012; Heather Read, University of Connecticut; Transformation of sparse temporal coding from auditory colliculus and cortex (video)
Elad Schneidman: Wednesday 22nd of February 2012; Elad Schneidman, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science; Sparse high order interaction networks underlie learnable neural population codes (video)
Aniruddha Das: Tuesday 24th of January 2012; Aniruddha Das, Columbia University; What Hemodynamics can and cannot tell us about neural activity in the brain (video)
Ken Nakayama: Wednesday 11th of January 2012; Ken Nakayama, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Subjective Contours (video)
Austin Roorda: Wednesday 14th of December 2011; Austin Roorda, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley; How the unstable eye sees a stable and moving world (video)
Shinji Nishimoto: Wednesday 26th of October 2011; Shinji Nishimoto, UC Berkeley; Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies. (video)
Susanne Still: Wednesday 05th of October 2011; Susanne Still, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Predictive power, memory and dissipation in learning systems operating far from thermodynamic equilibrium (video)
Moshe Gur: Tuesday 27th of September 2011; Moshe Gur, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology; On the unity of perception: How does the brain integrate activity evoked at different cortical loci? (video)
Michael P. Kilgard: Wednesday 21st of September 2011; Michael P. Kilgard, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas; Directing Cortical Plasticity to Understand and Treat Neurological Disease (video)
Kathrin Berkner: Thursday 15th of September 2011; Kathrin Berkner, Ricoh Innovations Inc.; Multi-aperture computational imaging systems for depth, scientific analysis and human perception
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Ian Stevenson: Thursday 26th of May 2011; Ian Stevenson, Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University; Explaining tuning curves by estimating interactions between neurons (video)
Bruce Cumming: Wednesday 23rd of March 2011; Bruce Cumming, National Institutes of Health; How the disparity selective neurons adapt to the statistics of the environment (video)
Vladimir Itskov: Wednesday 16th of March 2011; Vladimir Itskov, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Relating structure to function of recurrent networks (video)
Ernst Niebur: Wednesday 26th of January 2011; Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins University; Up states are critical, down states are not (video)
Ruth Rosenholtz: Tuesday 25th of January 2011; Ruth Rosenholtz, # Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science and AI Lab, MIT; What your visual system sees where you are not looking (video)
Siwei Lyu: Tuesday 18th of January 2011; Siwei Lyu, Computer Science Department, University at Albany, SUNY; Divisive Normalization as an Efficient Coding Transform: Justification and Evaluation (video)
Claudia Clopath: Wednesday 15th of December 2010; Claudia Clopath, Universite Paris Decartes; Why is connectivity in barrel cortex different from that in visual cortex? - A plasticity model (video)
Jorg Lucke: Monday 13th of December 2010; Jorg Lucke, FIAS; Linear and Non-linear Approaches to Component Extraction and Their Applications to Visual Data (video)
Gadi Geiger: Wednesday 01st of December 2010; Gadi Geiger, MIT; Visual and Auditory Perceptual Modes that Characterize Dyslexics (video)
Dan Butts: Friday 19th of November 2010; Dan Butts, University of Maryland; Common roles of inhibition in visual and auditory processing (video)
Aurel Lazar: Wednesday 10th of November 2010; Aurel Lazar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University; Encoding Visual Stimuli with a Population of Hodgkin-Huxley Neurons (video)
Patrick Ruther: Monday 08th of November 2010; Patrick Ruther, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Germany; The NeuroProbes project â€“ Silicon based neural probe arrays interfacing brain tissue on the electrical, chemical and mechanical domain (video)
Alexandre Francois: Wednesday 20th of October 2010; Alexandre Francois, Department of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College; Designing and implementing dynamic models of cognitive processes (video)
Vikash Gilja: Wednesday 29th of September 2010; Vikash Gilja, Stanford University; Towards Clinically Viable Neural Prosthetic Systems. (video)
Johannes Burge: Thursday 02nd of September 2010; Johannes Burge, Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas, Austin; Optimal defocus estimation in single natural images (video)
Tilke Judd: Friday 23rd of July 2010; Tilke Judd, MIT; Learning to predict where people look (video)
Alan Yuille: Thursday 08th of April 2010; Alan Yuille, UCLA; Recursive Compositional Models for Computational Vision (video)
Felix Biessmann: Friday 26th of March 2010; Felix Biessmann, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany; CCA based methods for data with non-instantaneous couplings (video)
Geoffrey Hinton: Monday 22nd of March 2010; Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Deep learning with multiplicative interactions (video)
Harvey Swadlow: Thursday 04th of March 2010; Harvey Swadlow, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut; Brain state and the awake thalamocortical network (video)
Gaute Einevoll: Wednesday 03rd of March 2010; Gaute Einevoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; What can we learn from multielectrode recordings of extracellular potentials in the brain? (video)
Gordon Pipa: Wednesday 24th of February 2010; Gordon Pipa, University of Osnabrueck / MPI Frankfurt; Our brain plays Jazz: Information processing in a self-organized and multi-scale system (video)
David Philiponna: Wednesday 27th of January 2010; David Philiponna, Paris; A sensorimotor account of space and colors (video)
Tom Dean: Wednesday 20th of January 2010; Tom Dean, Google; Accelerating Computer Vision and Machine Learning Algorithms with Graphics Processors (video)
Susanne Still: Wednesday 06th of January 2010; Susanne Still, University of Hawaii; Interactive learning (video)
Daniel Graham: Friday 20th of November 2009; Daniel Graham, Dept. of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; The Efficient Artist: Statistical Regularities in Art and Their Relationships with Visual Coding (video)
Dan Graham: Wednesday 18th of November 2009; Dan Graham, Dartmouth College; The Packet-Switching Brain: A Hypothesis (video)
Song-Chun Zhu: Thursday 12th of November 2009; Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA; Information Scaling and Perceptual Transitions in Natural Images and Video (video)
Andrea Benucci: Wednesday 28th of October 2009; Andrea Benucci, UCL; Stimulus dependence of the functional connectivity between neurons in primary visual cortex (video)
Anita Schmid: Wednesday 07th of October 2009; Anita Schmid, Weill Cornell Medical College; Subpopulations of neurons in visual area V2 perform differentiation and integration operations in space and time (video)
Horace Barlow: Monday 28th of September 2009; Horace Barlow, University of Cambridge; Symmetry detection in V1 through cross- and auto-correlation (video)
Keith Godfrey: Wednesday 02nd of September 2009; Keith Godfrey, University of Cambridge; Modeling visual system development - a forecast for change? (video)
Ole Jensen: Wednesday 24th of June 2009; Ole Jensen, Donders Institute, University Nijmegen, Netherlands; Shaping functional architecture of the working brain by oscillatory activity (video)
Chris Moore: Monday 01st of June 2009; Chris Moore, MIT; Cortical Dynamics and Perception (video)
Jonathan Victor: Wednesday 27th of May 2009; Jonathan Victor, Weill Cornell Medical College; Understanding the Computations in Primary Visual Cortex: Does Tweaking the Standard Model Suffice? (video)
Jonathan Pillow: Wednesday 20th of May 2009; Jonathan Pillow, University of Texas, Austin; Understanding stimulus coding and correlation in large neural populations (video)
Surya Ganguli: Wednesday 13th of May 2009; Surya Ganguli, UCSF; Origins of short-term memory traces in neuronal networks (video)
Alex Pouget: Wednesday 06th of May 2009; Alex Pouget, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester; Probabilistic inferences in neural circuits: from insects to humans (video)
Garrett Stanley: Wednesday 29th of April 2009; Garrett Stanley, Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech & Emory University; Precise Timing in the Neural Population Code (video)
Thomas Serre: Wednesday 22nd of April 2009; Thomas Serre, MIT; Mechanisms of bottom-up and top-down processing in visual perception (video)
Pierre Garrigues: Friday 10th of April 2009; Pierre Garrigues, UC Berkeley; Inference and learning of higher-order structure in sparse coding models of natural images (video)
Laura Walker Renninger: Wednesday 08th of April 2009; Laura Walker Renninger, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; Applying information models to explore eye movement behavior in patients with central field loss (video)
Werner Callebaut: Wednesday 01st of April 2009; Werner Callebaut, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria; The dialectics of disunity in the evolutionary synthesis and its extensions (video)
Werner Callebaut: Wednesday 01st of April 2009; Werner Callebaut, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria; Beyond reduction and emergence (video)
Susana Martinez-Conde: Wednesday 25th of March 2009; Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona; Perceptual and physiological effects of fixational microsaccades (video)
Angela Yu: Tuesday 17th of March 2009; Angela Yu, UCSD; Sequential Effects: Irrational Superstition or Adaptive Behavior? (video)
Nabil Bouaouli: Tuesday 10th of March 2009; Nabil Bouaouli, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris; Efficient sensory processing could depend on excitation/inhibition balance: A view from change detection (video)
Ben Torben-Nielsen: Friday 06th of March 2009; Ben Torben-Nielsen, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; Function shapes structure: Results from optimizing model neurons for performing particular functions (video)
Urs Koster: Thursday 05th of March 2009; Urs Koster, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Helsinki; Learning Natural Image Structure with a Horizontal Product Model (video)
Lars Kai Hansen: Thursday 22nd of January 2009; Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark; Cognitive Component Analysis (video)
Francois Meyer: Wednesday 17th of December 2008; Francois Meyer, University of Colorado, Boulder; From fMRI to Behavior and Back: The Decoding of fMRI Datasets (video)
Giorgio Ascoli: Tuesday 04th of November 2008; Giorgio Ascoli, Molecular Neuroscience Department and Director, Center for Neural Informatics, Structure, and Plasticity, George Mason University; From dendrites to connectomics: computational neuroanatomy, neuroinformatics, and the brain (video)
Rich Zemel: Wednesday 22nd of October 2008; Rich Zemel, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto; Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli (video)
Jim Crutchfield: Wednesday 15th of October 2008; Jim Crutchfield, Complexity Sciences Center, UC Davis; Structure or Noise? (video)
Lena H. Ting: Wednesday 24th of September 2008; Lena H. Ting, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, and Fall 2008 Visiting Miller Professor; Dimensional reduction in motor patterns for balance control (video)
Dan Butts: Wednesday 17th of September 2008; Dan Butts, Institute of Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Time and visual computation: how precision is generated in the visual pathway (video)
Joshua Vogelstein: Wednesday 13th of August 2008; Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins; From calcium imaging to spikes, using state-space methods (video)
Bill Bialek: Wednesday 23rd of July 2008; Bill Bialek, Princeton University; Networks, codes, and information flow (video)
Xin Wang: Wednesday 28th of May 2008; Xin Wang, USC; Translation of sensory neural code across the retinothalamic synapse (video)
Xin Wang: Tuesday 27th of May 2008; Xin Wang, USC; Recovering retinal and extraretinal receptive fields of LGN cells (video)
Kwabena Boahen: Wednesday 21st of May 2008; Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University; Neurogrid: Emulating a million neurons in the cortex (video)
Nick Priebe: Wednesday 14th of May 2008; Nick Priebe, University of Texas, Austin; Contrast-invariant orientation tuning in simple cells of visual cortex (video)
Sen Cheng: Monday 28th of April 2008; Sen Cheng, Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, UCSF; How are episodic memories stored in the hippocampus? (video)
Mark Goldman: Wednesday 23rd of April 2008; Mark Goldman, UC Davis; Modeling the mechanisms underlying memory-related neural activity (video)
Ueli Rutishauser: Wednesday 16th of April 2008; Ueli Rutishauser, Caltech; State dependent computation using coupled recurrent networks (video)
Harald Atmanspacher: Tuesday 15th of April 2008; Harald Atmanspacher, Institut fuer Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V.; Contextual emergence of mental states from neurodynamics (note changed time) (video)
Marty Usrey: Wednesday 02nd of April 2008; Marty Usrey, UC Davis; Functional properties of neuronal circuits for vision (video)
Hiroyuki Ito: Monday 24th of March 2008; Hiroyuki Ito, Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University; Dynamics of Spike Synchrony in Cat LGN - high precision, non-Poissonian property and non-stationarity (video)
Dana Ballard: Thursday 20th of March 2008; Dana Ballard, University of Texas, Austin; Towards a model of embodied cognition (video)
Dana Ballard: Wednesday 19th of March 2008; Dana Ballard, University of Texas, Austin; Distributed Synchrony: A Model of Cortical Signaling (video)
Ilana Witten: Wednesday 12th of March 2008; Ilana Witten, Stanford University; Spatial Processing in a Complex Auditory Environment (video)
Peter Robinson: Thursday 06th of March 2008; Peter Robinson, Brain Dynamics Center, Westmead Millenium Institute, Westmead Hospital; Quantitative Modeling of Multiscale Brain Activity (video)
Jean-Philippe Lachaux: Wednesday 27th of February 2008; Jean-Philippe Lachaux, INSERM, Lyon; BrainTV : a novel approach for online mapping of human brain functions (video)
Costa Colbert: Wednesday 20th of February 2008; Costa Colbert, Evolved Machines, Inc. and Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston; Electrophysiological, Optical, and Computational Studies of Dendritic Excitability (video)
Marcelo Magnasco: Wednesday 13th of February 2008; Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University; Sparse time-frequency representations and the neural coding of sound (video)
Pam Reinagel: Wednesday 06th of February 2008; Pam Reinagel, UCSD; Coding in Context: How context influences representation of visual information in the LGN (video)
Kai Miller: Wednesday 30th of January 2008; Kai Miller, University of Washington; Changes in local cortical activity are revealed by a power law in the cortical potential spectrum (video)
Todd S. Horowitz: Friday 30th of November 2007; Todd S. Horowitz, Harvard Medical School; Attention, motion, and trajectories (video)
Geoff Hinton: Tuesday 27th of November 2007; Geoff Hinton, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto; How are error derivatives represented in the brain (video)
Lokendra Shastri: Tuesday 08th of May 2007; Lokendra Shastri, ICSI, UC Berkeley; Micro-circuits of Episodic Memory: Structure Matches Function in the Hippocampal System (video)
Jeff Johnson: Tuesday 24th of April 2007; Jeff Johnson, UC Davis; What does EEG tell us about the timecourse of object recognition? (video)
Steve Waydo: Tuesday 17th of April 2007; Steve Waydo, California Institute of Technology; Sparse Coding in the Human MTL: Experimental Results and Computational Modeling (video)
Jeff Hawkins: Tuesday 20th of March 2007; Jeff Hawkins, Numenta; Hierarchical Temporal Memory:
Biological Mapping to Neocortex and Thalamus (video)
Pietro Perona: Tuesday 06th of March 2007; Pietro Perona, Caltech; An exploration of visual recognition (video)
Hiroki Asari: Thursday 01st of March 2007; Hiroki Asari, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Sparse Representations for the Cocktail Party Problem (video)
Yair Weiss: Tuesday 20th of February 2007; Yair Weiss, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; What makes a good model of natural images? (video)
Tobi Delbruck: Tuesday 13th of February 2007; Tobi Delbruck, Inst of Neuroinformatics, UNI-ETH Zurich; Building a high-performance event-based silicon retina leads to new ways to compute vision (video)
Giuseppe Vitiello: Tuesday 23rd of January 2007; Giuseppe Vitiello, Department of Physics â€œE.R.Caianielloâ€, Salerno University; Relations between many-body physics and nonlinear brain dynamics (video)
Tanya Baker: Tuesday 05th of December 2006; Tanya Baker, U Chicago; What Forest Fires Tell Us About the Brain (video)
Thomas Dean: Tuesday 28th of November 2006; Thomas Dean, Brown University / Google; Learning Invariant Features Using Inertial Priors, or
"Why Google might want to be in the neocortex business?" (video)
Urs KÃ¶ster: Tuesday 21st of November 2006; Urs KÃ¶ster, University of Helsinki; Towards Multi-Layer Processing of Natural Images (video)
Andrew D. Straw: Tuesday 14th of November 2006; Andrew D. Straw, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology; Closed-Loop, Visually-Based Flight Regulation in a Model Fruit Fly (video)
Mitya Chklovskii: Tuesday 07th of November 2006; Mitya Chklovskii, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; What determines the shape of neuronal arbors? (video)
J. L. McClelland: Tuesday 03rd of October 2006; J. L. McClelland, Mind, Brain & Computation/MBC, Psychology Department, Stanford; Graded constraints in English word forms (video)
Peter Latham: Monday 25th of September 2006; Peter Latham, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London; Requiem for the spike (video)
Jerry Feldman: Tuesday 19th of September 2006; Jerry Feldman, ICSI, UC Berkeley; From Molecule to Metaphor: Towards a Unified Cognitive Science (video)
Tom Griffiths: Tuesday 05th of September 2006; Tom Griffiths, Psychology/Cogsci, UC Berkeley; Natural Statistics and Human Cognition (video)
Carol Whitney: Tuesday 01st of August 2006; Carol Whitney, U Maryland; What can Visual Word Recognition Tell us about Visual Object Recognition? (video)
Risto Miikkulainen: Tuesday 18th of April 2006; Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin; How can a system as complex as the human visual system be constructed? (video)
Charles Anderson: Tuesday 11th of April 2006; Charles Anderson, Washington University School of Medicine; Population Coding in V1 (video)
Charles Anderson: Monday 10th of April 2006; Charles Anderson, Washington University School of Medicine; A Comparison of Neurobiological and Digital Computation (video)
Mate Lengyel: Wednesday 15th of March 2006; Mate Lengyel, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London; Bayesian model learning in human visual perception (video)
Mate Lengyel: Tuesday 14th of March 2006; Mate Lengyel, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London; Firing rates and phases in the hippocampus: what are they good for? (video)
Gerard Rinkus: Tuesday 21st of February 2006; Gerard Rinkus, Brandeis University; Hierarchical Sparse Distributed Representations of Sequence Recall and
Recognition (video)
Jack Cowan: Tuesday 14th of February 2006; Jack Cowan, U Chicago; Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: what visual migraines and hallucinations tell us about the brain (video)
Erhardth Barth: Tuesday 17th of January 2006; Erhardth Barth, Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, Luebeck, Germany; Guiding eye movements for better communication (video)
Paul Rhodes: Tuesday 13th of December 2005; Paul Rhodes, Stanford University; Simulations of a thalamocortical column with compartment model cells and dynamic synapses. (video)
Robert Hecht-Nielsen: Tuesday 06th of December 2005; Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Computational Neurobiology, UC San Diego; Debate: "Waves or words in cortex?" -- Part 2: Confabulation Theory (video)
Walter J Freeman: Tuesday 06th of December 2005; Walter J Freeman, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology; Debate: "Waves or words in cortex?" -- Part 1: A field-theoretic approach to understanding neocortex (video)
Stanley Klein: Tuesday 29th of November 2005; Stanley Klein, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley and Vision Science and Neuroscience Graduate Groups; Limits of Vision and psychophysical methods (video)