Computational Learning and Memory Group
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The brain has a remarkable capacity to learn continuously about the environment and to use this knowledge flexibly to make predictions and guide its future decisions. Our group studies learning and memory from computational, algorithmic/representational and neurobiological viewpoints. We also maintain an active interest in the possible computational functions of neural oscillations, particularly those present in the hippocampus and neocortex. Computationally and algorithmically, we use ideas from Bayesian approaches to statistical inference and reinforcement learning to characterize the goals and mechanisms of learning in terms of normative principles and behavioral results. We also perform dynamical systems analyses of reduced biophysical models to understand the mapping of these mechanisms into cellular and network models. We collaborate very closely with experimental neuroscience groups, doing in vitro intracellular recordings, multi-unit recordings in behaving animals, and human psychophysical and fMRI experiments. |
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16 / 06 / 20 | paper on sampling by cortical-like dynamics in Nature Neuroscience is accepted |
13 / 11 / 19 | special issue on computational neuroscience in Current Opinion in Neurobiology is out |
13 / 08 / 19 | paper on representational untangling in V1 accepted at eLife |
24 / 05 / 19 | Alberto Bernacchia accepts a Senior Deep Learning Researcher job at MediaTek |
10 / 05 / 19 | Jake Stroud is awarded Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust |
30 / 04 / 19 | paper on the statistical pickpocket experiment accepted at eLife |
23 / 04 / 19 | Rodrigo Echeveste is offered Assistant Researcher position by the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina |
07 / 09 / 18 | commentary piece on probabilistic population codes accepted at TINS |
05 / 09 / 18 | paper about the theory of natural gradients in deep neural networks accepted at NIPS |
21 / 08 / 18 | paper about how nonlinear dendrites are ultimately linear accepted at Neuron |
27 / 07 / 18 | Máté Lengyel receives 6-year Wellcome Trust Investigator Award |
12 / 04 / 18 | paper about the dynamical regime of sensory cortex accepted at Neuron |
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