Events this person is speaking at:

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia
  Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Events this person is hosting:

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

Tuesday 26 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - The role of confidence in learning to make good decisions
  Prof Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Corticostriatal computations in learning and decision making
  Prof Michael Frank (Brown University)
  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

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

• 14:30 - Sparse coding – how a neurophysiological constraint is also a ubiquitous and powerful cortical learning mechanism
  Anthony Burkitt (University of Melbourne)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Events this person is organising:

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 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 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 5 July 2017 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Rethinking Reward: Dopamine Signals in Learning and Motivation
  Prof Josh Berke (UC San Francisco)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 21 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Basal ganglia activity: The good, the bad, and the depressed
  Prof Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
  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 - Biophysical model of the olfactory system of honey bees predicts qualitatively different responses to mixtures
  Prof Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Prof Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - What is simplicity in a complex auditory world?
  Dr Dan Goodman (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Controlling Populations of Neurons
  Prof Jeff Moehlis (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
  Dr Matthew Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 13 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Frédéric Piel (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Learning to Believe: Prediction error adaptation as an efficient neurocomputational mechanism for learning about risky outcomes
  Dr Kelly Diederen (King's College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 26 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - The role of confidence in learning to make good decisions
  Prof Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Corticostriatal computations in learning and decision making
  Prof Michael Frank (Brown University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A complementary systems theory of meta-learning
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  João Sacramento (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Thursday 7 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - On biologically-plausible meta-learning
  Joao Sacramento (ETH Zurich)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 11:00 - On biologically-plausible meta-learning
  Joao Sacramento (ETH Zurich)

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Spatial uncertainty and environmental geometry in navigation
  Professor Máté Lengyel (University of Cambridge)
• 13:00 - Spatial uncertainty and environmental geometry in navigation
  Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Controlling synchrony by precisely timed pulses: A possible approach to deep brain stimulation
  Professor Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam)
• 13:00 - Controlling synchrony by precisely timed pulses: A possible approach to deep brain stimulation
  Professor Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 29 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Simultaneous and separable latent encoding of arm movement direction and kinematics in motor cortex
  Professor Mark Humphries (University of Notthingham)
• 13:00 - Simultaneous and separable latent encoding of arm movement direction and kinematics in motor cortex
  Professor Mark Humphries (University of Notthingham)
  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

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

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

• 14:30 - Sparse coding – how a neurophysiological constraint is also a ubiquitous and powerful cortical learning mechanism
  Anthony Burkitt (University of Melbourne)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum