Computational Modeling

Fri, May 24, 2013 - 5:05am

May

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
		1 12:00pm - 01:00pm Christian Langkammer - Insights into tissue composition and microstructure by postmortem MRI 02:00pm - 03:00pm Gabrielle Liverant - Relations among Smoking, Anhedonia, and Reward Learning in Unipolar Sepression 02:30pm - 03:30pm Dima Amso - The Utility of Visual Attention: Evidence from Typical and Atypical Development	2 05:00pm The role of fMRI in Cognitive Science: A discussion with Rebecca Saxe and Brian Scholl 06:00pm - 07:00pm Steven Hassan - Sacrificing Freedom of Mind: How We Fall Prey to Cults and Controllers	3 01:00pm - 02:00pm David Osher - Function Follows Form: How Connectivity Patterns Govern Neural Responses 04:00pm - 05:00pm Linda Van Aelst - The role of G proteins in neuronal development and plasticity	4	5
6 10:00am - 11:00am Retsina Meyer - Neurobiologically-motivated treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in an animal model	7 12:00pm - 01:00pm Leon Bergen - The lexicon in learning and pragmatic inference 04:30pm - 06:00pm Rosemary Varley - Language and Thought: evidence from severe aphasia	8 08:30am - 05:30pm 2013 McGovern Institute Symposium: NEURAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT 12:00pm - 01:00pm Chongzhao Ran - Optical Imaging of Amyloidosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Brown Adipose Tissue	9	10	11	12
13 12:00pm - 01:00pm Joshua Buckholtz - The Causal Biology of Antisocial Behavior 12:00pm - 01:00pm Brian Kangas - Touchscreen Technology and the Preclinical Pharmacology of Complex Behavior 05:00pm - 06:30pm MIT Workshop: Transforming Science Coverage in the General Media	14 12:00pm - 01:00pm Laura Schulz's Infant and Childhood Cognition class 04:00pm - 05:00pm Joshua Sanes - Wiring up the retina 04:00pm - 05:00pm Suzanne Corkin - The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.	15 12:00pm - 01:00pm Martha Shenton - The Role of Neuroimaging in mTBI, Schizophrenia, and CTE: DTI, MRS, and Emerging PET Tau Imaging in CTE 06:00pm - 07:00pm Lawrence Fitzgerald - Opportunities and Challenges in Drug Discovery for Autism Spectrum Disorders	16 01:00pm - 02:30pm Eric Reiman - Advancing The Preclinical Study and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease 04:00pm - 05:00pm Paul Greengard - Understanding the Molecular Basis of Major Depressive Disorder: A Work in Progress	17 10:30am - 12:00pm Oded Ghitza - Speech perception, cortical theta oscillations and auditory channel capacity 12:00pm - 01:00pm Paul Muentener - Predicting developmental outcomes from infants' early exploratory behaviors	18	19
20 01:00pm - 02:00pm Chia-Huei Tseng - Perceptual grouping in visual search	21 02:00pm - 03:00pm Krista Ehinger - Visual Features for Scene Recognition and Reorientation	22 12:00pm - 01:00pm Evelina Fedorenko - A novel framework for a neural architecture of language	23	24 10:30am - 12:00pm Hideki Kawahara 03:00pm Nonie Finlayson - The effects of depth information on visual search	25	26
27	28 04:30pm - 05:30pm Sharon Thompson-Schill - Costs and benefits of cognitive control for language processing	29 02:00pm - 03:00pm Amanda Tarullo - Developmental Consequences of Early Deprivation: Neural Function, Diurnal Cortisol Activity, and Social Behavior in Post-institutionalized Children	30	31

Time:

Tue, Apr 23, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 46-3310

Brenden Lake (MIT Tenenbaum lab)

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Time:

Wed, Apr 17, 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, Ray and Maria Stata Center, Room 32-G449

Jun Zhang (Dept. of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

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Time:

Thu, Apr 4, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 46-3189

Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University

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Time:

Tue, Mar 26, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA. Harvard University, William James Hall, Room 765

Elias Issa
Post Doctoral Researcher
MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Abstract:

Time:

Thu, Mar 7, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Place:

33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA. Harvard University, William James Hall, Room 765

Joshua Tenenbaum (Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT)

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Time:

Mon, Dec 3, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 46-3189

Elias Issa (MIT DiCarlo lab)

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Time:

Wed, Nov 7, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Place:

64 Sidney St, Cambridge, MA 02139, Suite #170

James Cavanagh (Brown University)

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Time:

Mon, Sep 24, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Place:

32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, Ray and Maria Stata Center, Room 32-G449

MIT Thesis Defense:
Speaker: Alvin Raj (CSAIL, EECS)
Host: Ruth Rosenholtz (CSAIL, BCS)

Abstract:

Time:

Wed, Sep 26, 2012 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

Place:

33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA. Harvard University, William James Hall, Room 765

Prof Antonio Torralba,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Abstract:

Time:

Wed, Sep 26, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 46-3002

Prof. Vladimir Vapnik, Royal Holloway University of London

Host(s): Prof. Tomaso Poggio and Dr. Lorenzo Rosasco Host Affiliation(s): Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, MIT-IIT

http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/calendar.php?calendar=single&id=14984244

Boston-NeuroTalks Calendar 3.0

May

Keywords:

Brenden Lake - Rapid concept learning by inverting a compositional causal process

Jun Zhang - Regularized Learning in Reproducing Kernel Banach Spaces

Paul Smolensky - Towards a theory of neural computation for computing symbolic functions

Elias Issa - Neural recordings and computational modeling of the earliest face selective region in monkey IT, area PL

Joshua Tenenbaum - Reverse-engineering common sense

Elias Issa - Neural recordings and computational modeling of the earliest face selective region in monkey IT, area PL

James Cavanagh: Mechanisms Underlying Evidence Accumulation and Threshold Adjustment in Value Based Decision Making

Alvin Raj - Ambiguous Statistics -- How a Statistical Encoding in the Periphery Affects Perception

Antonio Torralba - Accidental pinhole and pinspeck cameras: revealing the scene outside the picture

Vladimir Vapnik - From Rosenblatt's learning model to the model of learning with nontrivial teacher

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