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Colloquium Speaker- Robert Hampton

Krieger 205 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland

Robert Hampton, a Professor of Psychology at Emory University will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Metacognition and memory systems in monkeys It is a challenge to determine what is going on in another mind. This challenge is arguably greater when seeking information about the minds of nonverbal […]

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Colloquium Speaker- Daniela Vallentin

Krieger 205 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland

Daniela Vallentin, a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Neural mechanisms of vocal learning and production in songbirds During conversations we rapidly switch between listening and speaking which often requires withholding or delaying our speech in […]

Colloquium Speaker- Andreas Nieder

Krieger 205 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland

Andreas Nieder, a Professor of Animal Physiology at the University of Tuebingen will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Number processing neurons in the brains of humans, monkeys, and crows Our scientifically and technically advanced culture would not exist without an understanding of numbers, the foundations of which are […]

Growing Up in the Sciences- Wei ji Ma

Ames Hall, room 217

Growing up in Science is a worldwide set of conversations about the lived experiences of scientists. In 2014, it was started by Wei Ji Ma as a monthly mentorship series at New York University. In a typical event, one faculty member shares their life story, with a focus on struggles, failures, doubts, detours, and weaknesses. […]

Colloquium Speaker- Weiji Ma

Krieger 205 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland

Title: The cognitive science of multi-step planning Weiji Ma, a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at NYU will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Abstract: As DeepMind has revolutionized the AI of planning in combinatorially large problems, our lack of understanding of how humans plan in such […]

Colloquium Speaker- Sam Gershman

Policy compression: the quest for simplicity in action selection Sam Gershman, a Professor of Psychology at Harvard will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! The brain has evolved to produce a diversity of behaviors under stringent computational resource constraints. Given this limited capacity, how do biological agents balance […]

Colloquium Speaker- Bence P.  Ölveczky

Neural circuits underlying learned motor sequence execution Bence P.  Ölveczky, a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Abstract: Our ability to sequence movements and actions in response to unpredictable environmental events underlies our rich and adaptive behavioral repertoire. Such flexible behaviors contrast […]