Towards multi-system network models for cognitive neuroscience

Schedule
Friday, October 14, 2022
06:30 UTC
Robert Guangyu Yang

Prof.

MIT

Host: NYU Swartz

Event Information

Host

NYU Swartz

Duration

70 minutes

Abstract

Artificial neural networks can be useful for studying brain functions. In cognitive neuroscience, recurrent neural networks are often used to model cognitive functions. I will first offer my opinion on what is missing in the classical use of recurrent neural networks. Then I will discuss two lines of ongoing efforts in our group to move beyond the classical recurrent neural networks by studying multi-system neural networks (the talk will focus on two-system networks). These are networks that combine modules for several neural systems, such as vision, audition, prefrontal, hippocampal systems. I will showcase how multi-system networks can potentially be constrained by experimental data in fundamental ways and at scale.

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