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Title: The structure of individuality in micro-behavioral features of task performance Abstract: Individuality is an intrinsic and essential aspect of mammalian behavior that emerges even in genetically identical organisms experiencing the same environmental conditions. In the International Brain Laboratory (IBL),  mice were trained on a visual decision-making task with the explicit goal of establishing a…

This event is for all ARNI trainees and graduate students who work on an ARNI related project. The goal of this symposium is to foster networking and career development. Location: Zuckerman Institute L3-079 Time: 12pm to 5pm Registration form: https://forms.gle/4e2AHqP54X8VvkKS8 Program 12pm: Lunch Catering by FUMO 1pm: ARNI Postdoc Presentations Haozhe Shan Mehdi Azabou 2pm:…

The working group will discuss: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0671-1 Join via Google Meets: meet.google.com/nnq-csiy-yah

Columbia Engineering Lecture Series in AI "Toward General and Purposeful Reasoning in Real World Beyond Lingual Intelligence" April 29: Dr. Eric Xing, President of Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Register here! Schedule 10:30AM-11:00AM Registration 11:00AM-12:00PM Lecture Advance registration is required for both Columbia affiliates and non-affiliates ABOUT THE SPEAKER Professor Xing is the inaugural president of MBZUAI,…

Description: Advances in neurotechnology and behavioral tracking have enabled the collection of large-scale neural and behavioral datasets, offering new opportunities to study brain function in complex settings. However, researchers face significant challenges in integrating and analyzing data across different brain regions, individuals, and behavioral contexts. Inspired by recent successes in large-scale “foundation” models in natural language…

Title: Multidimensional structure of activity in transcriptomically identified cortical cell types Abstract: The cerebral cortex is comprised of hundreds of distinct cell types, connected into a network that underpins cognition.  To characterize the geometry of population activity in these cells, we recorded from thousands of neurons simultaneously in mouse visual cortex, and used post-hoc in…

May 5th and 6th 8:30am to 5:30pm Pulitzer Hall - 2950 Broadway New York, NY 10027 This two-day workshop brings together leading experts in machine learning (ML) and neuroscience to examine two emerging themes: (1) the relationship between brain resilience and algorithmic robustness, and (2) the role of ML-driven data generation in social sciences and…

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Title: Discovery of categorical concepts Abstract: We seem to like reasoning in terms of discrete, logical categories, even in the face of continuous variation. A generous interpretation of this phenomenon is that we create abstractions about the world which enable powerful generalization to new situations -- once I know what "hot-and-sour" is, I can instantly…

Title: How behavioral and evolutionary constraints sculpt early visual processing   Abstract: Biological systems must selectively encode partial information about the environment, as dictated by the capacity constraints at work in all living organisms. For example, we cannot see every feature of the light field that reaches our eyes; temporal resolution is limited by transmission…

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