[CTN] CTN seminar: Joel Zylberberg (York): 3:30 Tuesday March 12, E5-6111

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

This is just a reminder about the talk tomorrow. Hope to see you there.

Bryan


On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 4:01 PM Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please join us for the next CTN seminar with Joel Zylberberg, who was
> previously at University of Colorado and recently moved to York University.
> The title and abstract follow.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan
>
>
> (Learning) Visual Representations
>
> Visual stimuli elicit action potentials in the retina, that propagate to
> the brain, where further action potentials are elicited. What is the
> language of this signalling? In other words, how do patterns of action
> potentials in each neural circuit correspond to stimuli in the outside
> world? The first part of this talk will highlight recent work from my
> laboratory that confronts this problem in the retina and visual cortex.
> Next, I will discuss on-going work that asks how those representations are
> learned. Specifically, I will highlight a joint theory-experiment research
> program that investigates whether and how the brain's visual neural
> circuits implement the same kinds of learning algorithms as are found in
> modern artificial intelligence systems.
>
>
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