Computational diversity and the mesoscale organization of the neocortex

Speaker: Gary Marcus

Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

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Location: Singleton Auditorium, MIT Bldg 46-3002

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Host: Prof. Tomaso Poggio

Contact: Neelum Wong, nkhattak@csail.mit.edu

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Reminder Subject: TALK: Computational diversity and the mesoscale organization of the neocortex

This talk is part of the Brains, Minds & Machines Seminar Series 2013-2014.

Gary Marcus, Professor of Psychology at NYU and Visiting Cognitive Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, is the author of four books including the NYTimes Bestseller, Guitar Zero. He frequently blogs for The New Yorker, and is co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Future of the Brain: Essays By The World’s Leading Neuroscientists. His research on language, evolution, computation and cognitive development has been published widely, in leading journals such as Science and Nature.

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