Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Stable brains in dynamic worlds: a key role of cortico-cerebellar loops
  Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Events this person is hosting:

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Adaptation to natural input statistics: a key to dendritic computation and plasticity
  TBA
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - How to learn useful representations in a structured world
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jane Wang (Deepmind)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Zero-shot numerical reasoning in dual stream neural networks and the primate visual system
  Jessica Thompson (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Probabilistic Synapses
  Prof Peter Latham (University College of London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Learning in cortical networks through error back-propagation
  TBA
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A single pair of neurons links sleep to memory consolidation in Drosophila melanogaster
  Prof Leslie Griffith (Brandeis University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Pablo Jercog (IDIBAPS & Cellex Inst., Barcelona)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Optogenetic silencing of anterior cingulate cortex disrupts model-based reinforcement learning in mice
  Thomas Akam (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 16 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation
  Prof Andrea Herz (LMU Munich)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 6 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Emergence of connectivity motifs via the interaction of long-term and sort-term plasticity
  Dr Eleni Vasilaki (University of Sheffield)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Control of entropy in internal models
  Dr Jill O'Reilly (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Multidimensional imbalances in excitation/inhibition in Fragile-X Syndrome
  Dr Cian O'Donnell (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Neural Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex: Ensemble Codes, Oscillatory Structure and Avalanches during short-term memory
  Dr Matthias Munk (University of Tübingen and Systems Neurophysiology, Technical University Darmstadt)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 20 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Active Cognition
  Dr Angela Yu (University of California San Diego)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 22 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Information seeking and randomness drive human exploration
  Dr Bob Wilson (University of Arizona)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 17 August 2016 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - A mean-field theory for drift-diffusion dynamics of spiking continuous attractor models
  Mr Alex Seeholzer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 21 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Reconciling flexible neuromodulation, variability and regulatory control in neurons
  Dr Tim O'Leary (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Preplay and path planning in maze-like environments with attractor networks
  Mr Dane Corneil (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neuronal computation: A tale of dendritic structure and function
  Dr Ben Torben-Nielsen (University of Hertfordshire)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 14 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Predictive coding as a model of cortical function
  Dr Michael Spratling (Kings College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 11 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Next generation neural field modelling
  Prof Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Modeling Neural and Performance Correlates of Attention
  Miss Grace Lindsay (Columbia University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 15 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Testing complex brain-computational models to understand how the brain works
  Dr Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 5 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Diverse population coupling ensures robust yet flexible stimulus representation in a recurrent network model of perceptual learning
  Dr Yann Sweeney (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - STDP balance and morphology influences the appearance of the dendritic mosaic
  Dr Nicolangelo Iannella (University of Nottingham)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Agony of Choice: Optimal Policies for Value-based Decision Making
  Prof Alexander Pouget (University of Geneva)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Towards state and parameter estimation in neural populations models (of anaesthesia)
  Prof Ingo Bojak (University of Reading)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Optical Tools for Dissecting Neural Information Processing
  Dr Simon Schultz (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 22 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Mechanism underlying the retinal computation of predictive sensitization
  Dr David Kastner (UCSF)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 29 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - A Spiral Attractor Network Drives Rhythmic Locomotion in Aplysia
  Dr Mark Humphries (University of Manchester)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 27 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - What can we learn from local field potentials (LFPs) recorded in the brain?
  Dr Gaute Einevoll (Norwegian University of Life Sciences and University of Oslo)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Prof Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - A simple neural network to structure thoughts using rapidly changing synapses
  Sanjay Manohar (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - How to learn useful representations in a structured world
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jane Wang (Deepmind)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - A neural manifold view of motor control
  Juan A Gallego (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Zero-shot numerical reasoning in dual stream neural networks and the primate visual system
  Jessica Thompson (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 28 March 2024 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Controlling Populations of Neural Oscillators
  Prof Jeff Moehlis (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Neural representations of learning and behavior
  Alex Cayco-Gajic (École Normale Supérieure Paris)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - A dynamic attractor network model of memory coding
  Marta Boscaglia (University of Leicester)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Meta-training neural networks to control themselves
  Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Kai Sandbrink (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:45 - Sparse coding – how a neurophysiological constraint is also a ubiquitous and powerful cortical learning mechanism
  Anthony Burkitt (University of Melbourne)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Predictive and interpretable: using artificial neural networks and classic cognitive models to understand human learning and decision making
  Maria Eckstein (Deepmind)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum