[CTN] CTN seminar: Jorn Diedrichsen (Western), 3:30 Tuesday October 24, PAS 2464

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder about the talk tomorrow. Hope to see you there!

As usual, graduate students are invited to lunch with the speaker. Please
meet in PAS 2464 at noon and contact Eric Hunsberger (erichuns at gmail.com)
with any questions about lunch.

Regards,
Bryan


On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please join us next week for a talk by Professor Jorn Diedrichsen, of the
> Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario. The title and
> abstract follow.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan
>
>
> The brain’s GPU? In search of the cerebellum’s universal transform
>
> The cerebellum exhibits a highly specialized and uniform neuronal
> circuitry, which likely evolved to solve very specific problems in
> sensory-motor control. In the human brain, the cerebellar circuitry has
> dramatically expanded, and it contributes here to virtually every possible
> cognitive function. But what is this elusive computation that the
> cerebellum contributes to cortical processing? I will show some insights
> from our research on motor control and learning, which shows that the
> cerebellum is critically involved in prediction and fast error-based
> learning. I will then talk about the first steps that we have recently
> taken to test computational theories about the function of the cerebellum
> across different cognitive domains using functional imaging.
>
>
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