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Columbia University; Harvard University / Hebrew University; Salk Institute
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Schedule
Saturday, November 30, 2024
3:00 PM Europe/Vienna
Domain
NeuroscienceHost
Brain Prize Webinar Series 2024
Duration
70 minutes
This webinar brings together three leaders in theoretical and computational neuroscience—Larry Abbott, Haim Sompolinsky, and Terry Sejnowski—to discuss how neural circuits generate fundamental aspects of the mind. Abbott illustrates mechanisms in electric fish that differentiate self-generated electric signals from external sensory cues, showing how predictive plasticity and two-stage signal cancellation mediate a sense of self. Sompolinsky explores attractor networks, revealing how discrete and continuous attractors can stabilize activity patterns, enable working memory, and incorporate chaotic dynamics underlying spontaneous behaviors. He further highlights the concept of object manifolds in high-level sensory representations and raises open questions on integrating connectomics with theoretical frameworks. Sejnowski bridges these motifs with modern artificial intelligence, demonstrating how large-scale neural networks capture language structures through distributed representations that parallel biological coding. Together, their presentations emphasize the synergy between empirical data, computational modeling, and connectomics in explaining the neural basis of cognition—offering insights into perception, memory, language, and the emergence of mind-like processes.
Larry Abbott, Haim Sompolinsky, Terry Sejnowski
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