Barccsyn Webinar

BARCCSYN webinars are weekly, online seminars for the BARCCSYN community. Typical schedule is Wednesdays, 15:00 (GMT+2). The topics are broad and include computational, cognitive and systems neuroscience. Refer to this webpage for future or past webinars. Most seminars are recorded, but are not publicly available; please contact the organizers if you are interested in watching some of the webinars. 

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Organizers:
Joao Barbosa, ENS Paris
Daniel Duque, IDIBAPS
Manuel Molano, IDIBAPS
Emma Roscow, CRM
Klaus Wimmer, CRM

Upcoming talks

  • To be announced here.

Previous speakers

  • 15/4/2020 Mathew Diamond - History effects on perceptual discrimination tasks in rats

  • 22/4/2020 Laura Nicole Driscoll - Neural dynamics shape task organization in multitask networks

  • 29/4/2020 Francesca Mastrogiuseppe - Linking connectivity, dynamics and computations in low-rank recurrent neural networks

  • 7/5/2020 Alex Huk - New perspectives on primate motion perception

  • 13/5/2020 Camilo Libedinsky - Multiple Information Subspaces in the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex

  • 20/5/2020 Evren Gocken - Dissecting bidirectional interactions between populations of neurons

  • 27/5/2020 Alex Cayco Gajic - High-dimensional representations in cerebellar granule cells

  • 17/6/2020 Lucas Pinto - Task-specific whole-cortical states during decision making

  • 23/6/2020 Yue Yang - Epigenetic programming of cerebellar-dependent motor learning

  • 1/7/2020 Jonathan Michaels - Combining deep learning and primate electrophysiology to understand reach and grasp control

  • 16/7/2020 Devika Narain - Neural circuits underlying Bayesian time perception

  • 22/7/2020 Gowan Tervo - Neural circuits contributing to behavioral variability

  • 9/9/2020 Miguel Maravall - Sequence learning in the mouse barrel cortex induces neuronal selectivity to task variables instead of refining sensory tuning

  • 23/9/2020 Mathew Smith - Decoding local and global cognitive signals from neuronal populations

  • 30/9/2020 Evan Schaffer - Flygenvectors: large-scale dynamics of behavioral and internal states in Drosophila

  • 7/10/2020 David Thura - Selection and invigoration of behavior: a role for the cortico-basal ganglia network

  • 21/10/2020 Redmond O'Connell - Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making

  • 28/10/2020 Tatiana Engel - Computational frameworks for integrating large-scale neural dynamics, connectivity, and behavior.

  • 4/11/2020 Barbara Feulner - Neural manifold under plasticity in a goal driven learning behaviour

  • 11/11/2020 Yaoda Xu - Adaptive visual information processing in the human posterior parietal cortex

  • 25/11/2020 Christopher J. Cueva - Emergence of functional and structural properties of the head direction system

  • 9/12/2020 Valentin Wyart - Computation noise in human learning and decision-making: origin, impact, function

  • 16/12/2020 Shreya Saxena - Modeling the neural control of movement: flexible control of movement speed and data-driven inference

  • 13/1/2021 Lea Duncker - The dynamics of robustness in motor cortex

  • 20/1/2021 Paul Cisek - Rethinking behavior in the light of evolution

  • 27/1/2021 Xing Chen - Shape perception via a high-channel-count neuroprosthesis in monkey visual cortex

  • 3/2/2021 Linda Wilbrecht - Experience of feast and famine in development impacts learning and decision making in adulthood

  • 10/2/2021 John Murray - Geometry of Neural Computation Unifies Working Memory and Planning

  • 17/2/2021 Marlene Cohen - Neuronal population coding: from vision to decision

  • 26/2/2021 Hannah Sheahan - Neural state space alignment in humans and RNNs

  • 3/3/2021 Danielle Rager - Variability across multilayer cortical networks and a new circuit mechanism that supports sensory integration

  • 10/3/2021 Annegret Falkner - Mapping the neural dynamics of social dominance and defeat

  • 17/3/2021 Marino Pagan - Individual variability of neural mechanisms underlying flexible decision-making

  • 24/3/2021 Christine Constantinople - Neural basis of economic biases in rats

  • 7/4/2021 Erich Schröger - Mental models matter for hearing

  • 14/4/2021 Ann Hermundstad - Where now and where next? Extracting heading and goal through structured action

  • 21/4/2021 Juan Gallego - The power of the collective: Understanding how neural populations drive behaviour

  • 28/4/2021 Sukbin Lim - Mechanisms underlying robust working memory

  • 5/5/2021 Matthew Farrell - Dimensionality and dynamics of artificial neural networks

  • 12/5/2021 Tushar Chauhan - What can a simple rank-based Hebbian rule tell us about disparity selectivity in V1?

  • 19/5/2021 Gianluigi Mongillo - Different sites for synaptic storage and their impact on network’s memory capacity

  • 26/5/2021 Anna Schapiro - Learning distributed representations in the human brain

  • 2/6/2021 Anne Collins - Setting the frame for reinforcement learning

  • 9/6/2021 Yael Niv - Model-based predictions for dopamine

  • 16/6/2021 Laura Colgin - Hippocampal place cell dynamics in spatial memory

  • 23/6/2021 Ran Darshan - Learning to represent continuous variables in heterogeneous neural networks

  • 8/9/2021 Paul Miller - Analysis of foraging-like behavior with dynamical models and reinforcement learning

  • 15/9/2021 Gouki Okazawa - Representational geometry of decision variable in the monkey parietal cortex during face categorization

  • 22/9/2021 Hendrikje Nienborg - Decision-related feedback in visual cortex lacks spatial selectivity

  • 24/11/2021 Anne Urai - Choice history bias as a window into cognition and neural circuits

  • 1/12/2021 Michele Insanally - The synaptic origins and functional role of diverse cortical responses during behavior

  • 19/1/2022 Chandramouli Chandrasekaran - Neural circuit dynamics underlying perceptual decision-making

  • 4/5/2022 Ruben Portugues - Decision-making and navigation in larval zebrafish