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Using language to understand vision and vision to understand language (56:27)
Jul 13, 2016
Andrei Barbu, Research Scientist at MIT, discusses using language to understand vision and vision to understand language. He shows how the simple ability to compare an English sentence and a video clip can form the basis for many tasks such as...
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Tools for mapping and repairing the brain [part 1] (25:33)
Jul 8, 2015
Ed Boyden, Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops tools for analyzing and repairing complex biological systems such as the brain, and applies them...
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Tools for mapping and repairing the brain [part 2] (11:11)
Jul 8, 2015
Ed Boyden, Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops tools for analyzing and repairing complex biological systems such as the brain, and applies them...
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Tools for mapping and repairing the brain [part 3] (19:58)
Jul 8, 2015
Ed Boyden, Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which develops tools for analyzing and repairing complex biological systems such as the brain, and applies them...
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The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia (45:59)
Jun 20, 2018
Emery Brown, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard, describes how general anesthesia induced by drugs such as Propofol alters neural oscillations in the brain, as measured with EEG. He presents a...
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On the Neural Machinery of Faces (1:03:18)
Jun 8, 2016
Winrich Freiwald, Professor of Neurosciences and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, discusses the connection between sociality and intelligence, the importance of face processing for social cognition, and the neural machinery underlying face...
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Development and Diversity of the Human Brain
Jul 22, 2016
John Gabrieli, MIT
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Building Machines that Learn and Think Like People (28:21)
Jul 26, 2017
Sam Gershman, Professor of Psychology at Harvard, discusses how we might build machines that learn and think like people, by combining insights from cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and computational neuroscience. Dr. Gershman elaborates...
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The thalamus in cognitive control and flexibility (1:19:21)
Jun 27, 2018
Mike Halassa, MIT
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The Neural Basis of Perceiving Human Visual Social Perception (37:39)
Jun 6, 2018
Leyla Isik, a post-doctoral researcher at MIT, studies how the human brain recognizes objects and social interactions, using MEG, fMRI, and computational modeling. Dr. Isik first describes her work on decoding the information in MEG signals measured...
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Using neural decoding to study object and action recognition in the human brain (1:03:53)
Jul 15, 2015
Leyla Isik, post-doctoral researcher at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital, explains how to use neural decoding to study object and action recognition in the human brain. By decoding the information contained in MEG signals measured in human...
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Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind
Jun 17, 2020
[The video is missing the first few minutes of the talk due to technical difficulties.] Nancy Kanwisher, MIT
Embedded thumbnail for Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind (1:18:25)
Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind (1:18:25)
Jun 19, 2019
Embedded thumbnail for Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind
Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind
Jul 11, 2018
Nancy Kanwisher, MIT
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What do you mean, "Just Phrenology?"
Jul 20, 2016
Nancy Kanwisher, MIT
Embedded thumbnail for Functional Specificity in the Human Brain: A Very Brief History (12:41)
Functional Specificity in the Human Brain: A Very Brief History (12:41)
Jul 29, 2015
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, describes the history of attempts to localize functionally specific regions in the brain, from the 18th century...
Embedded thumbnail for Functional Specificity: What it means and what it doesn't (17:53)
Functional Specificity: What it means and what it doesn't (17:53)
Jul 29, 2015
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, talks about the history of attempts to find functionally specific regions in the human brain, what it means for a...
Embedded thumbnail for Why Use Functional Regions of Interest (fROIs)? (25:17)
Why Use Functional Regions of Interest (fROIs)? (25:17)
Jul 29, 2015
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, talks about the history of attempts to find functionally specific regions in the human brain, what it means for a...
Embedded thumbnail for What's special about human brains? (14:48)
What's special about human brains? (14:48)
Jul 29, 2015
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, talks about the history of attempts to find functionally specific regions in the human brain, what it means for a...
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A Conversation with Dr. Boris Katz
Jul 10, 2019
Boris Katz of MIT discusses how he got into his field of research, and shows some projects that he has and is working on, with visiting summer students.
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Large-Scale Organization of Object Knowledge [part 2]
Jul 1, 2015
Talia Konkle, Harvard University
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Large-Scale Organization of Object Knowledge [part 3]
Jul 1, 2015
Talia Konkle, Harvard University
Embedded thumbnail for Large-Scale Organization of Object Knowledge [part 1]
Large-Scale Organization of Object Knowledge [part 1]
Jul 1, 2015
Talia Konkle, Harvard University
Embedded thumbnail for Deciphering Brain Codes to Build Smarter AI
Deciphering Brain Codes to Build Smarter AI
Jun 24, 2020
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Everything you always wanted to know about the visual system but were afraid to ask
Jul 25, 2018
Gabriel Kreiman, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Embedded thumbnail for Foundational architecture of human language comprehension, production, and acquisition (1:13:01)
Foundational architecture of human language comprehension, production, and acquisition (1:13:01)
Aug 1, 2018
Roger Levy, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, describes his research on human language understanding, which integrates linguistic theory, computational models, psychological experimentation using measurements such as eye tracking...
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Sound, Ears, Brains and the World (59:15)
Jul 6, 2016
Josh McDermott, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, describes the early stages of human auditory processing and addresses how important information about the world can be derived from sound. Combining studies of auditory perception...
Embedded thumbnail for The visual alphabet 2.0 (32:57)
The visual alphabet 2.0 (32:57)
Jul 31, 2019
Carlos Ponce, Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine, describes a recent study that explores how neurons in inferotemporal (IT) cortex of the monkey visual system encode complex patterns for recognition. The video...
Embedded thumbnail for Learning to see late in life (1:17:28)
Learning to see late in life (1:17:28)
Jun 29, 2020
[The video is missing the first few minutes of the talk due to technical difficulties.] Pawan Sinha, MIT
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A developmental perspective on brains, minds and machines (1:17:15)
Jul 22, 2015
Elizabeth Spelke, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies at Harvard, presents a developmental perspective on brains, minds and machines. Studies of cognitive development in infants can provide insights about...