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Harvard Kempner Institute: Spring Into Science
march 26, 2025 Annual retreat, Kempner Institute for the study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence The proceedings included a panel discussion entitled “How will cognitive science or neuroscience contribute to modern AI?” featuring (left to right) Talia Konkle, a Kempner associate faculty member, SueYeon Chung, an incoming institute investigator, and Gabriel Kreiman, a Kempner affiliate faculty…
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Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2025
march 31, 2025 Nature and nurture revisited: new insights about core knowledge and visual development across cognitive systems Chaisr: Gabriel Kreiman and Elisabetta Versace The combinatorial advantage of predispositions. Elisabetta Versace. Through a glass, darkly: approximations, hacks and workarounds in intuitive physics and imagination. Tomer Ullman. The efficient coding of visual textures in rats, chicks…
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Congratulations to Trenton Bricken!
march 31, 2025 Sparse representations in artificial and biological neural networks Congratulations to Trenton Bricken for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
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BrainMind Science Collective 2025
march 21-23, 2025 BrainMind Science Collective Bay Area: Menlo Park and Mountain View On March 21–23, 2025, in the Bay Area, the BrainMind Science Collective series will united 150 scientists, innovators, and thought leaders working at the forefront of brain and mind sciences, alongside cross-disciplinary thinkers from AI, physics, and beyond. (1) One-minute pitch: helping…
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Congratulations to David Mazumder!
mar 20, 2025 The Post-Movement Beta Rebound is Attenuated in Patients with Epilepsy Congratulations to David Mazumder for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
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Humanity meets AI
feb 27-28 How might AI influence our understanding of humanity, morality, and meaning-making? Prof. Kreiman participated in a discussion panel with Prof. Dashi-Velez and Dr. Goodwin organized by the Harvard Divinity School The discussion focused on fascinating issues at the intersection of technology development, well-being, morality, and how to think about the role of humanity…
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AAAI 2025: The indoor training effect
Feb 27, 2025 Presentation at AAAI 2025 Serena Bono, Spandan Madan and colleagues present their work titled “The indoor training effect: unexpected gains from distribution shifts in the transition function”. This work reports surprising findings where algorithms trained under noisy conditions can generalize better than algorithms trained under noise-free conditions.
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The indoor training effect
feb 17, 2025 Scientists thought this would make AI worse but it made it smarter Note by Adam Zewe, MIT, about the work by Serena Bono and Spandan Madan in AAAI 2025 (see PDF here). SciTechDaily See more related work from the lab:
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Brains Minds and Machines Summer Course 2025
August 3, 2025 — august 24, 2025 Apply now to join the BMM Summer School The goal of this course is to help produce a community of leaders that is equally knowledgeable in neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer science and will lead the scientific understanding of intelligence and the development of true biologically inspired AI.