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

athul jacob athul.paul03 at gmail.com
Ven 10 Mar 15:01:00 EST 2017


Great, thanks!

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:53 PM Yoshua Bengio <yoshua.umontreal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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> --Junyoung
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