Events

Nov

Wed

4

Simons Center for the Social Brain

SCSB Colloquium Series

SCSB Colloquium Series – The computational psychiatry of autism: perception, prediction and learning

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Rebecca Lawson, Ph.D.

Nov

Thu

5

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition

On theoretical mechanisms of decision-making and learning

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin

Nov

Tue

10

The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Symposium

The New England Down Syndrome Symposium

1:45pm to 9:05pm

Nov

Tue

10

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Cog Lunch

Processing position-degraded linguistic input; Improving neural language models with human next-word predictions

5:00pm to 5:45pm

Speaker(s)

Carina Kauf (Levy/Fedorenko Lab)

Tiwalayo Eisape (Levy Lab)

Nov

Thu

12

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition

Perceptual beginnings to first language acquisition: Critical periods and multisensory influences

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Janet Werker

Nov

Thu

12

McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Special Event

Story Slam: RESILIENCE

10:00pm to 11:30pm

Nov

Fri

13

Simons Center for the Social Brain

Lunch Series

SCSB Lunch Series: Representation of spatial hypotheses in mouse retrosplenial cortex

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Speaker(s)

Jakob Voigts, Ph.D.

Nov

Tue

17

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Cog Lunch

How observers resolve social ambiguities: two complementary studies; Investigating predictive processing: psychophysics and computational methods

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Speaker(s)

Setayesh Radkani (Saxe + Jazayeri Lab)

Isaac Treves (Sinha + Gabrieli Lab)

Nov

Tue

17

The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Special Seminar

Can we fix the brain like we fix electronic circuits?

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Jin Hyung Lee, PhD

Nov

Wed

18

McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Special Event

Neurotech 2020

2:00pm to 9:00pm

Nov

Wed

18

Simons Center for the Social Brain

SCSB Colloquium Series

SCSB Colloquium Series – One brain, many genomes: somatic mutation and genomic diversity in human brain

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

SCSB Colloquium Series – Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

Nov

Thu

19

Computation Tutorial

Linear Analysis of RNN Dynamics

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Speaker(s)

Eli Pollock

Nov

Thu

19

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition

Beyond the Pipeline: Inclusive Environments in STEM Training

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Alycia Mosley Austin, PhD

Nov

Tue

24

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Cog Lunch

Rapid generalization of knowledge in structured domains

5:00pm to 5:45pm

Speaker(s)

Sugandha Sharma

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