Title: Neural basis for skilled movements Abstract: Generating behavior is an incredible achievement of the nervous system, considering the range of possible actions and the complexity of musculoskeletal arrangements. Motor…

Title: Scope of the working group, example project, and literature Short Description: From Nikolaus Kriegeskorte's (Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)…

Title: Efficient coding in reward neurons Abstract: Two of the greatest triumphs of computational neuroscience have been efficient coding accounts of tuning properties of sensory neurons and reinforcement learning accounts…

Title: Translating computational mechanisms to clinical applications Computational psychiatry is a rapidly growing field attempting to translate advances in computational neuroscience and machine learning into improved outcomes for patients suffering…

Title: A recurrent network model of planning explains hippocampal replay and human behaviour Abstract:  When faced with a novel situation, humans often spend substantial periods of time contemplating possible futures. For…

Title: The Geometry of Abstraction Abstract: I'll first discuss the theoretical framework introduced in Bernardi et al. 2020, Cell, in which we propose a possible definition of abstract representations. I'll go into…

Title: Risking your Tail: Curiosity, Danger & Exploration Abstract: Risk and reward are critical balancing determinants of adaptive behaviour, associated respectively with neophobia and neophilia in the case of exploration.…

Title: "What Bayes can and cannot tell us about the neuroscience of vision" Nikolaus Kriegeskorte's Group is hosting Dr.Richard Lange, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rochester…

Title: Continual learning, machine self-reference, and the problem of problem-awareness Abstract: Continual learning (CL) without forgetting has been a long-standing problem in machine learning with neural networks. Here I will bring a…

Title: Feedback-based motor control can guide plasticity and drive rapid learning Abstract: Animals use afferent feedback to rapidly correct ongoing movements in the presence of a perturbation. Repeated exposure to a predictable…