BI 035 Tim Behrens: Abstracting & Generalizing Knowledge, & Human Replay

Brain Inspired

May 20 2019 | 01:11:03

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Show Notes

Show notes:

This is the first in a series of episodes where I interview keynote speakers at the upcoming Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference in September in Berlin.
- Thomas Naseralis summarizes the origins and vision of the CCN.
Tim’s Neuroscience homepage:
The papers we discuss:
- Generalisation of structural knowledge in the hippocampal-entorhinal system (referred to in the podcast at "The Tolman Eichenbaum Machine”)
Human replay spontaneously reorganizes experience. (In press at Cell - below is an abstract for it from COSYNE 2018)
- Inference in replay through factorized representations.

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