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Mechanisms of few shot learning in the human brain
16 May 2025 How neurons in the human medial temporal lobe process Mooney images Marcelo Armentariz presented his work studying how neural circuits in the human brain can learn about visual objects in a few-shot fashion at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Remarkably, neurons rapidly change their response pattern upon learning to
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Rethinking consciousness
30 April 2025 Rethinking consciousness: when science puts itself to the test International Consortium Conducts First Direct, Adversarial Test of Two Leading Theories of Consciousness. What is consciousness? For centuries, scientists and philosophers have tried to understand how the brain creates our inner world—how neural activity translates into the taste of coffee, for example, or
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L-Wise: Boosting human visual learning
25 April 2025 Boosting human visual category learning through model-based image selection and enhancement Work presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Morgan Talbot, Gabriel Kreiman, James DiCarlo, Guy Gaziv
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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