[Lisa_seminaires] [Lisa_labo] Jörn Diedrichsen on "The brain’s GPU? In search of the cerebellum’s universal computation", March 10, 13:30, AA6214

Yoshua Bengio yoshua.umontreal at gmail.com
Ven 10 Mar 14:53:12 EST 2017


I asked him and he said he would provide the slides.

2017-03-10 14:33 GMT-05:00 athul jacob <athul.paul03 at gmail.com>:

> Will the slides be made available(if there was one) ?
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:26 PM Junyoung Chung <elecegg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Reminder: the talk is happening soon at AA6214!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:00 AM Junyoung Chung <elecegg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> the next tea talk will be given by a guest speaker, Jörn Diedrichsen from
>> UWO.
>> Same place, same time: March 10, at 13:30-14:30, room AA6214.
>> Hope to see many of you there!
>>
>> Title: The brain’s GPU? In search of the cerebellum’s universal
>> computation
>>
>> Abstract: The cerebellum exhibits a highly specialized and uniform
>> neuronal circuitry, which likely evolved to solve very specific problems in
>> sensory-motor control. In the human brain, the cerebellar circuitry has
>> dramatically expanded, and it contributes here to virtually every possible
>> cognitive function. But what is this elusive computation that the
>> cerebellum contributes to cortical processing? I will show some insights
>> from our research on motor control and learning, which shows that the
>> cerebellum is critically involved in prediction and fast error-based
>> learning. I will then talk about the first steps that we have recently
>> taken to test computational theories about the function of the cerebellum
>> across different cognitive domains using functional imaging.
>>
>> Bio: Jörn Diedrichsen is a Wester Research Chair in the Brain and Mind
>> Institute at Western University, and Professor of Statistics and Computer
>> Science. His laboratory studies the cerebellar function and motor control
>> and motor learning in the human brain. He has also developed a number of
>> novel multivariate analysis techniques for functional imaging data.
>>
>> Best,
>> --Junyoung
>>
>> --
>> --Junyoung
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