Weekly Meeting Group Discussion: Saket Navlakha, Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Labs (Available via Zoom) Saket Navlakha, Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Labs, will present his work, "Reducing…

Title: The auditory cortex: A sensorimotor fulcrum for speech and music perception Abstract: The Auditory cortex sits at the center of all auditory-motor tasks and percepts, from listening to our…

Title: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason with Reinforcement Learning Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss how we can use Reinforcement Learning (RL) to improve reasoning in Large Language Models (LLM),…

Title: Phase transition in learning with neural networks  Abstract: Statistical physics has studied exactly solvable models of neural networks for more than four decades. In this talk, we will put…

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 such planning to be rational, the benefits to behaviour must compensate for the time spent thinking. I will show how we recently captured these features…