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	Matthew Wilson: Hippocampal memory reactivation during awake and sleep states - UC Berkeley HWNI seminar series Seminar given by Matthew Wilson of MIT on September 26, 2008, for the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley. Keywords: Neuroscience Downloads: 75 Average rating: (0 review)
	Conférence neurosciences - JC Ameisen Conférence dans le cadre de la journée nationale d’étude des Ceméa sur le thème "Du bon usage des neurosciences" Cette conférence de Jean-Claude Ameisen, professeur d’immunologie à l’université Paris VII, Président du Comité d’Ethique de l’INSERM, membre du Comité Consultatif National d’Ethique, a pour sujet : Quelle éthique et quelles responsabilités pour les chercheurs ? Keywords: Neuroscience Downloads: 345 Average rating: (0 review)
	Loopy (Finland) - Neuroscience Podcast 6 - Neuroscience Radio Sasha - Magnetic North Madonna - What It Feels For A Girl 01 Joni - Things We Never Tell You (Matthew Adams & Dennis Feldman Remix) 02 Jay Lumen - Circulation 03 Alex Arestegui - Discover (Cressida Remix) Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren - Light the Skies (Retrobyte Remix) 04 Store n Forward & Cressida - Why Don't We Talk About It Kirsty Hawkshaw meets Tenishia - Outsiders (Jose Amnesia Remix) 05 Cara Dillon - Black is the Colour (Coco & Green Remix) 06 Neoblizz - Crying Skies Super8 & Tab - Needs to Feel ... Keywords: Neuroscience Downloads: 320
	Bard Ermentrout: What makes a neuron spike: Optimality, noise, and phase resetting - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Note: There was a mixup. This entry is NOT the talk by Bard Ermentrout. Hopefully the correct talk will be put in place towards the end of November. Seminar by Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh on October 30, 2008. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract: I will describe behavior of nearly regularly firing neurons in the presence of noisy stimuli. I first describe the phase resetting curve (PRC) and how it responds to noisy inputs... Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 71 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bruno Olshausen: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-10-23 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Topic: Continue recurrent networks; Hopfield nets, biological models. Keywords: Theoretical Neuroscience Downloads: 31 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bruno Olshausen: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-11-04 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Topic: Mixture of Gaussians model and Boltzmann machines. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 67 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bruno Olshausen: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-11-13 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Lecture for UC Berkeley Vision Science 298 - Neural Computation. Given November 13, 2008 Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 64 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bruno Olshausen: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-11-20 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience embed this Lecture for UC Berkeley Vision Science 298 - Neural Computation. Given November 20, 2008. Topic is ICA (Independent Component Analysis) learning rule. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 29 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bruno Olshausen: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-11-25 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Lecture for UC Berkeley Vision Science 298 - Neural Computation. Given November 25, 2008. Topic is Kalman filters. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 40 Average rating: (0 review)
	Risi Kondor: Visual Features from bispectral invariants - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience First part of an informal talk by Risi Kondor, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL (University College London). Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley on December 18, 2008. Note: The last third of the talk (or so) was not recorded due to technical problems. Abstract: Invariance is a central problem in computer vision. Various systems of features are known which are invariant to translation, rotation, scaling, etc... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 15 Average rating: (0 review)
	Ben Torben-Nielsen: Function shapes structure: Results from optimizing model neurons for performing particular functions - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk by Ben Torben-Nielsen of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; given on March 6, 2009 to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 51 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bruno Olshausen: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-10-30 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Lecture given October 30, 2008 at UC Berkeley. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 27 Average rating: (0 review)
	Brain Manual -- Groks Science Show 2008-08-20 - Charles Lee and Frank Ling The brain is a fascinating and complex organ that often baffles and confuses those who own it. Sometimes, a manual might be helpful. On this program, Matthew MacDonald discussed the missing manual for the human brain. Source: Groks Science Radio Show Podcast Keywords: science; neuroscience Downloads: 4,727 Average rating: (0 review)
	Stephen Baccus: Object motion sensitivity and adaptation in retinal circuitry - UC Berkeley Vision Science Seminar given by Stephen Baccus, Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology. Seminar was given for the UC Berkeley Vision Science Oxyopia seminar series on October 3, 2008 at UC Berkeley. Host was Marla Feller. Abstract: Due to fixational eye movements, the retinal image is always in motion, even when viewing a stationary scene. Detecting a moving object requires that object motion be distinguished from eye motion... Keywords: neuroscience; retina Downloads: 60 Average rating: (0 review)
	Rich Zemel: Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar given by Rich Zemel, of the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Presented on October 22, 2008 to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Keywords: Theoretical Neuroscience Downloads: 104 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bard Ermentrout: Saving Phase - reduced models of neural oscillators - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Informal seminar given by Bard Ermentrout on October 29 at UC Berkeley. Links to relevant papers are: http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/pubs/mbi_osc.pdf http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/pubs/no.pdf http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rfgalan/pdf/RFGalan_etal_JNeurophys07.pdf http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rfgalan/pdf/Ermentrout_etal_PRL07.pdf http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rfgalan/pdf/RFGalan_etal_JNC2006.pdf Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 53 Average rating: (0 review)
	Giorgio Ascoli: From dendrites to connectomics: computational neuroanatomy, neuroinformatics, and the brain - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar given by Giorgio Ascoli of the Molecular Neuroscience Department and Director, Center for Neural Informatics, Structure, and Plasticity, George Mason University. Presented to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley on November 4, 2008. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 203 Average rating: (0 review)
	Francois Meyer: From fMRI to Behavior and Back: The Decoding of fMRI Datasets - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by Francois Meyer of the University of Colorado at Boulder on December 17, 2008 at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging can be used to infer subjective experience and brain states of subjects immersed in "natural environments". These environments are rich with uncontrolled stimuli and resemble real life experiences... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 77 Average rating: (0 review)
	Nihat Ay: Causality, Information Flows, and the Perception-Action Loop - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by Nihat Ay, of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany and the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico. Presented to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience on December 19, 2008 at UC Berkeley. Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 26 Average rating: (0 review)
	Lars Kai Hansen: Cognitive Component Analysis - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Presentation given by Lars Kai Hansen of the Technical University of Denmark on January 22, 2009 to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract: Among the exponentially many ways of grouping data, can we characterize the ways that make sense to a human?. Cognitive component analysis is defined as the process of unsupervised grouping of data such that the ensuing group structure is well-aligned with that resulting from human cognitive activity... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 110 Average rating: (0 review)
	Urs Koster: Learning Natural Image Structure with a Horizontal Product Model - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk by Urs Koster, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Helsinki; given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience on March 5, 2009 at UC Berkeley. Note: Slides for this talk (PDF format) can be downloaded by clicking on the "All Files" link on the left. Abstract: We present a novel extension to Independent Component Analysis (ICA), where the data is generated as the product of two submodels, each of which follow an ICA model, and which combine in a horizontal fashion... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 32 Average rating: (0 review)
	Nabil Bouaouli: Efficient sensory processing could depend on excitation/inhibition balance: A view from change detection - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk by Nabil Bouaouli of Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience on March 10, 2009 at UC Berkeley. Abstract: The brain continuously processes the signals that emerge from the dynamic sensory environment. A well admitted view about the strategy applied by the nervous system is that it analyses the “sensory scene” as an ensemble of basis features which constitute the signal (e.g... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 107 Average rating: (1 review)
	Angela Yu: Sequential Effects: Irrational Superstition or Adaptive Behavior? - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk by Angela Yu of UC San Diego. Given March 17, 2009 to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract: Just as visual illusions reveal principles and mechanisms underlying natural visual processing, "cognitive illusions" can provide similar insight into the computations underlying decision-making. In a variety of behavioral tasks involving randomized sequences of stimuli, subjects exhibit an odd "sequential effect": their responses are facilitated by chance runs of ... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 86 Average rating: (0 review)
	Susana Martinez-Conde: Perceptual and physiological effects of fixational microsaccades - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk by Susana Martinez-Conde of the Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona. Given on March 25, 2009 to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract. A large part of our visual experience is driven by the eye movements we produce while we fixate our gaze. Therefore the perception and physiology of fixational eye movements are critical to our general understanding of vision... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 43 Average rating: (0 review)
	Werner Callebaut: Beyond reduction and emergence - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by Werner Callebaut, of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley on April 1, 2009. This is the first of two talks given by Werner to the Redwood Center on that day. Abstract: The positivist unity of science program resulted, somewhat paradoxically, in an anti-reductionist consensus in the philosophy of biology that resonated with postmodernist calls for disunity... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 67 Average rating: (0 review)
	Laura Walker Renninger: Applying information models to explore eye movement behavior in patients with central field loss - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by Laura Walker Renninger of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. Given on April 9, 2009 to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 42 Average rating: (0 review)
	Pierre Garrigues: Inference and learning of higher-order structure in sparse coding models of natural images - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Thesis seminar given by Pierre Garrigues, a graduate student in the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Given on April 10, 2009 at UC Berkeley. Abstract: Natural images, as complex and varied as they appear, have a sparse structure. That is, one can learn a basis set such that only a small fraction of the basis functions is necessary to describe a given image. Computing the sparse representation can be achieved by solving l1-regularized least-square, a problem commonly re... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 17 Average rating: (0 review)
	Thomas Serre: Mechanisms of bottom-up and top-down processing in visual perception - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Presentation given by Thomas Serre of MIT on April 22, 2009. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract. Perception involves a complex interaction between feedforward sensory-driven information and feedback attentional, memory, and executive processes that modulate such feedforward processing. A mechanistic understanding of feedforward and feedback integration is a necessary step towards elucidating key aspects of visual and cognitive functions and dysfunct... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 286 Average rating: (0 review)
	Alex Pouget: Probabilistic inferences in neural circuits: from insects to humans - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by Alex Pouget of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at the University of Rochester. Given on May 6, 2009 to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract. A wide range of behaviors can be formalized as instances of probabilistic inferences. This includes odor recognition in insects, navigation in rodents, auditory localization in barn owls, decision making in primates and causal reasoning in humans, to name just a few... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 89 Average rating: (0 review)
	Surya Ganguli: Origins of short-term memory traces in neuronal networks - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk by Surya Ganguli, UCSF, to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Given on May 13, 2009 at UC Berkeley. Abstract. Critical cognitive phenomena such as planning and decision making rely on the ability of the brain to hold information in working memory. Many proposals exist for the maintenance of such memories in persistent activity that arises from stable fixed point attractors in the dynamics of recurrent neural networks... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 69 Average rating: (0 review)
	Jonathan Pillow: Understanding stimulus coding and correlation in large neural populationsUnderstanding stimulus coding and correlation in large neural populations - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by Jonathan Pillow of the University of Texas at Austin. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley on May 20,2009. Abstract. One of the central problems in theoretical neuroscience is to understand how ensembles of neurons convey information in their collective spiking activity. Correlations, or statistical dependencies between neural responses, can affect both the amount of information carried by population responses and the manner in which downstream br... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 48 Average rating: (0 review)
	Jonathan Victor: Understanding the Computations in Primary Visual Cortex: Does Tweaking the Standard Model Suffice? - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by Jonathan Victor, Cornell University on May 27, 2009. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract: A central problem in systems neuroscience is to understand the nature of cortical computations, and how they are implemented. Primary visual cortex is an excellent model system for addressing these questions, since its inputs are readily controlled and its anatomy is well-understood... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 63 Average rating: (1 review)
	Chris Moore: T Cortical Dynamics and Perception - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk by Chris Moore of MIT on June 1, 2009. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Abstract. Our laboratory studies how rapid changes in neural organization, on the time scale of milliseconds to seconds, shape perception. Our key model system is the primary somatosensory cortex (SI), with a strong emphasis on the vibrissa 'barrel' cortex. In human MEG studies of tactile detection, we have shown that dynamics in the SI evoked response predict detection (Jones et ... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 101 Average rating: (0 review)
	Farran Briggs: Visual processing in thalamocortical and corticothalamic circuits - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by Farran Briggs of the University of California at Davis. Given June 3, 2009 to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 87 Average rating: (0 review)
	Ole Jensen: Shaping functional architecture of the working brain by oscillatory activity - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by Ole Jensen of the Donders Institute at University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley on June 24, 2009. Abstract. The working brain is composed of multiple networks which must be flexibly engaged and disengaged. How is this functional architecture shaped? Recent electrophysiological studies strongly suggest that networks not important for a given task are disengaged by an increase in oscillatory alpha activity (8-13 Hz)... Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 27 Average rating: (0 review)
	Keith Godfrey: Modeling visual system development - a forecast for change? - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk by Keith Godfrey, University of Cambridge, given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Presented on September 2, 2009. Abstract: Neural development is a complex process that results from the interaction of many underlying physiological mechanisms. Over the past few decades, computational modellers have produced many models which describe how one or a few of these mechanisms might be responsible for experimentally observed patterns of development... Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 42
	David Zipser: Brytes or How to make big brains out of lots of small brains - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Talk given by David Zipser at the Friday lab meeting of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Presented on Sept. 11, 2009. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 17
	Mike DeWeese: One Physicist's View Of The Cerebral Cortex - UC Berkeley Physics Dept. Talk by Mike DeWeese, of the Department of Physics and the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience (part of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute) at UC Berkeley. Given at the UC Berkeley Physics Colloquium on April 27, 2009. Abstract. Our brains are capable of solving many challenging real-world problems, such as focusing on one voice out of many at a loud cocktail party, navigating through a busy city intersection, recognizing a familiar face, and so on... Keywords: thoretical neuroscience Downloads: 39 Average rating: (0 review)
	David Zipser: Recurrent neural networks and dynamical systems - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Lecture by David Zipser for Vision Science 298 - Neural Computation, given on October 28, 2008. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 77 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bruno Olshausen: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-11-06 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Lecture for UC Berkeley Vision Science 298 - Neural Computation. Given November 6, 2008. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 25 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bruno Olshausen: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-11-06 taped with canon fs-100 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Testing canon fs-100, an inexpensive flash memory camcorder that records directly to mpeg2 format. This video recorded using the 16x9 (wide screen) format. Keywords: Theoretical Neuroscience Downloads: 43 Average rating: (0 review)
	Bruno Olshausen: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-11-18 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Lecture for UC Berkeley Vision Science 298 - Neural Computation. Given November 18, 2008. Topic is "Sparse coding and ICA." Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 38 Average rating: (0 review)
	Jeff Hawkins: Modeling neurocortex - Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Lecture for UC Berkeley Vision Science 298 - Neural Computation. Given December 2, 2008. Guest lecture by Jeff Hawkins of Numenta. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 99 Average rating: (0 review)
	Tony Bell: Emergence and Submergence in the Nervous System - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Lecture for UC Berkeley Vision Science 298 - Neural Computation. Given December 4, 2008. Guest lecture by Tony Bell of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 112 Average rating: (0 review)
	Pentti Kanerva: UC Berkeley VS298 - Neural Computation Lecture 2008-12-09 - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Guest lecture by Pentti Kanerva for UC Berkeley Vision Science 298 - Neural Computation. Given December 9, 2008. Keywords: theoretical neuroscience Downloads: 100 Average rating: (0 review)
	Do Brain Rhythms Underlie Conscious and Unconscious Cognition? - Bernard J. Baars Dr. Baars' talk at the Brain Rhythms workshop at the U. of Memphis Keywords: baars; consciousness; neuroscience Downloads: 38 Average rating: (0 review)
	Episode 39 Part 2: The Three Pound Universe - KMO, Dennis McKenna Part 2 of Dennis McKenna's "Three Pound Universe" talk presented at the 1st International Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru in 2005. Keywords: ayahuasca; conscsiousness; neuroscience Downloads: 373
	Reading Brain -- Groks Science Show 2008-01-02 - Charles Lee and Frank Ling Written language has evolved as a unique human trait for communicating ideas. But, how have human brains evolved to read and write? On this program, Prof. Maryanne Wolf discussed the evolution and development of the reading brain. Source: Groks Science Radio Show Podcast Keywords: science; reading; neuroscience Downloads: 4,246 Average rating: (0 review)
	Exercising Brain -- Groks Science Show 2008-06-11 - Charles Lee and Frank Ling While exercise is widely known to be beneficial for physical health, it can also greatly improve mental abilities as well. On this program, Dr. John Ratey discussed the effects of exercise on the brain. Source: Groks Science Radio Show Podcast Keywords: science; exercise; neuroscience Downloads: 2,920 Average rating: (0 review)
	Aging Memory -- Groks Science Show 2008-06-25 - Charles Lee and Frank Ling The normal decline of our cognitive abilities is one of the hallmarks of the aging process. But, what is the dividing line between normal and abnormal memory loss? On this program, Martha Weinman Lear discussed normal memory loss. Source: Groks Science Radio Show Podcast Keywords: science; memory; neuroscience Downloads: 2,883 Average rating: (0 review)