[CTN] [Bryan Tripp] University of Waterloo CTN Seminar Announcement October 19

[Britt Anderson]

Hi everyone,

Kohitij Kar will be giving this term's first CNS seminar Tuesday Oct 19
2021 at 14:30 online. Details for the contents and links are below.

Talk Title:
Towards a neurally mechanistic understanding of visual cognition.

Abstract:
I am interested in developing a neurally mechanistic understanding of how primate brains represent the world through its visual system and how such representations enable a remarkable set of intelligent behaviors. In this talk, I will primarily highlight aspects of my current research that focuses on dissecting the brain circuits that support core object recognition behavior (primates’ ability to categorize objects within hundreds of milliseconds) in non-human primates and that the primate ventral stream requires fast recurrent processing via ventrolateral PFC for robust core object recognition (Kar and DiCarlo, Neuron, 2021).

Short Bio
Kohitij Kar (“Ko”) is currently a Research Scientist at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT working in the lab of Dr. James DiCarlo. He is also an incoming Assistant Professor at York University. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Behavioral and Neural Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey (PhD advisor: Bart Krekelberg).

Here is a link for the seminar with Kohitij Kar, next Tuesday at 2:30:
https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/94264604598?pwd=c0p4NkdubXdnSHUvTGhvQ1M5NXBFZz09

Graduate students and post-docs are invited to meet with the speaker here at 1:30:
https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/92115916896?pwd=MDZJOUF2bHB4Nm1ZcFVKMDlQOW9PUT09

sent by Britt for

Bryan Tripp, PhD

Director, Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor, Systems Design Engineering & Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
University of Waterloo