Title: Brain-wide credit assignment: cortical and subcortical perspectives Abstract: The brain assigns credit to trillions of synapses remarkably well. How the brain achieves this feat is one of the great mysteries…

Weekly Meeting Group Discussion: Paper Topic: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01951 Zoom: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/94783759415?pwd=cTlDTDdCVk9vdEV0QzRKL0hKQW1Kdz09

Title: Multiplexing multiple signals in neural codes: new statistical tools and evidence Abstract: How the brain represents multiple objects is mysterious. Sensory neurons are broadly tuned, producing overlap in the…

Title: Brain Decodes Deep Nets Presenter: Jianbo Shi, PhD GRASP Laboratory Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Abstract: We developed a surprising usage of brain encoding: using a brain fMRI prediction…

Weekly Meeting Group Discussion: Paper Topic: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03241 Zoom: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/94783759415?pwd=cTlDTDdCVk9vdEV0QzRKL0hKQW1Kdz09

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Weekly Meeting Group Discussion: Paper Topic: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10105 Zoom: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/94783759415?pwd=cTlDTDdCVk9vdEV0QzRKL0hKQW1Kdz09

Title: Putative synaptic theory of temporal order encoding in working memory (Joint work with Gianluigi Mongillo) Abstract: Overwhelming evidence indicates that working memory automatically encodes incoming stimuli in the correct presentation order.…

Speaker: Markus Marks (Caltech) Title: Automating Analysis in Biology Using AI, From Data to Discovery Time and Place: Davis Auditorium, 11:40am, Tuesday April 9 Abstract: Thanks to improved sensors and…

Weekly Meeting Group Discussion: Paper Topic: https://direct.mit.edu/neco/article/35/11/1797/117579/Reducing-Catastrophic-Forgetting-With-Associative Zoom: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/94783759415?pwd=cTlDTDdCVk9vdEV0QzRKL0hKQW1Kdz09

Title: Micron brain data at scale: computational challenges in imaging and analysis. Abstract: Uncovering the principles of neural computation requires 1) new methods to observe micron-level targets at scale and 2) interpretable models of high-dimensional time-series.…

Title: Whole-body simulation of realistic fruit fly locomotion with deep reinforcement learning Abstract: The body of an animal determines how the nervous system produces behavior. Therefore, detailed modeling of the…