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Monday, October 1, 2018(Computer) Vision without Sight: Finding, Reading, and Magnifying TextSeminar: Oxyopia Seminar | October 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall Roberto Manduchi, Professor of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills Reading is a pervasive activity in our daily life. We read text printed on books and documents, shown on directional signs and advertisement, and displayed on computer and smartphone screens. People who are blind can read text using OCR on their smartphone; those with low vision may magnify onscreen content. But these tasks are not always easy. Reading a document with OCR requires taking a... More > Monday, October 8, 2018Seeing in the cold neurobiology of the ground squirrel retinaSeminar: Oxyopia Seminar | October 8 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall Wei Li, PhD, NIH/NEI Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills The ground squirrel has a cone-dominant retina and it hibernates in winter. We exploit these two unique features to study retinal biology and adaptations during hibernation. In this seminar, I will discuss an optic feature of the ground squirrel retina, as well as several forms of adaptation during hibernation in the retina and beyond. By exploring the mechanisms of such adaptation, we hope to... More > Wednesday, October 10, 2018Fronto-thalamic interaction in cognitive control and flexibility: Michael Halassa, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyColloquium | October 10 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West Michael Halassa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fronto-thalamic interaction in cognitive control and flexibilitySeminar: Neuroscience Seminar | October 10 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West Michael Halassa, Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, October 11, 2018The Berkeley Stem Cell Center Director's Special Seminar: From blood to brain: how do circulatory proteins regulate brain function?Seminar | October 11 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University School of Medicine Monday, October 15, 2018Graduate Student SeminarSeminar: Oxyopia Seminar | October 15 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall Jazzi Junge, Orel-Bixler Lab; Patrick Carney, Wildsoet Lab Wednesday, October 17, 2018The generation of neural diversitySeminar | October 17 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 245 Li Ka Shing Center Claude Desplan, New York University Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Berkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Lecture: Towards a Conscious AI: A Computer Architecture Inspired by Neuroscience with Manuel BlumColloquium | October 17 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium Manuel Blum, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) Thanks to major advances in neuroscience, we are on the brink of a scientific understanding of how the brain achieves consciousness. This talk will describe neuroscientist Bernard Baars' Global Workspace Model (GWM) of the brain, its implications for understanding consciousness, and a novel computer architecture that it inspires. The Model gives insight for the design of machines that truly... More > From Academia to Airbnb: a high dimensional anecdote: Jason VytlacilColloquium | October 17 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West Jason Vytlacil You can find Jason Vytlacil's LinkedIn page here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-vytlacil/ Thursday, October 18, 2018A cortical reinforcement prediction error encoded by VIP interneuronsSeminar | October 18 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition Adam Kepecs, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Department of Molecular and Cell Biology This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH Monday, October 22, 2018Graduate Student SeminarSeminar: Oxyopia Seminar | October 22 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall Sarah Kochik, Wildsoet Lab; Nevin El-Nimri, Wildsoet Lab Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills Nevin El-Nimri's Talk Monday, October 29, 2018Set Summary Perception, Outlier Pop Out, and Categorization: A Common Underlying Computation?Seminar: Oxyopia Seminar | October 29 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall Shaul Hochstein, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills Recent research has focused on perception of set statistics. Presented briefly with a group of elements, simultaneously or successively, observers report precisely the mean of a variety of set features, but are unaware of individual element values. This has been shown for both low and high level features, from circle size to facial expression. A remaining puzzle is how can the perceptual system... More > Vision to Action: Towards a Cellular-Resolution Atlas of the Zebrafish Visual and Visuomotor SystemSeminar: Neuroscience Seminar | October 29 | 4-5 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center Herwig Baier, Department Genes – Circuits – Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills Understanding brain-wide neuronal dynamics and behavior requires a detailed map of the underlying circuit architecture. We built an interactive cellular-resolution atlas of the zebrafish brain, with a focus on the visual and visuomotor system, and generated from our dataset an inter-areal wiring diagram, which serves as ground truth for synapse-scale, electron microscopic reconstructions. We have... More > Wednesday, October 31, 2018Opportunities and challenges of high-field fMRI for neuroscience applicationsColloquium | October 31 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West Kendrick Kay, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills In this talk, Dr. Kendrick Kay will describe two recent projects that exploit functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at ultra-high magnetic field strength (7 Tesla). The first project consisted of whole-brain fMRI retinotopic mapping in 181 healthy adults, as part of the Human Connectome Project (T2*-weighted gradient-echo EPI, 1.6-mm isotropic resolution, 1-s TR, 85 slices, multiband... More > ![]() |
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