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Rewiring Neural Circuits through Language

May 24, 2023

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Type Lecture
Intended for General public / Enrolled students / International students / Alumni / Companies / University students / Academic and Administrative Staff
Date(s) June 16, 2023 16:00 — 17:30
Location Online
Venue Zoom Webinar
Entrance Fee No charge
Registration Method Advance registration required
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j2z_QFncRQCf1jSRQFViMw#/registration
Registration Period May 24, 2023 — June 16, 2023
Contact tokyo.college.event@tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Abstract

This lecture will present a neural model of two of humans’ most fundamental cognitive feats, i.e., the ability to interpret linguistic instructions in order to perform novel tasks with no training, and the ability to describe solutions to new tasks with full sentences.
 

Program

Lecturer:
Alexandre POUGET (Tokyo College Professor & Visiting Researcher, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo; Professor, University of Geneva)
 
Commentator:
Maria TELEGINA (Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo College)
 

Speaker Profile

Alexandre POUGET is a computational neuroscientist at the University of Geneva. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and obtained his PhD at University of California San Diego. He was awarded the Carnegie Prize in Brain and Mind Sciences in 2016.
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