TUESDAYS 3pm Kincaid 501 (note difference from schedule)
During this class we will primarily focus on vision science and recent papers thinking about “representation”
We aren’t doing formal presentations. Instead people should read the paper carefully and come with a paper copy, ready for discussion.
If you want me to provide you with your paper copies, please put a YES here.
Provisional Schedule
The representation problem
1/20 Single units and sensation: A neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology? Horace Barlow Perception 1972 (Sanjana & Ione)
2/03 Discussion about training in vision
2/10 How Does the Brain Solve Visual Object Recognition. DiCarlo, Zoccolan, Rust (Sebastian)
2/17 The Plenoptic Function and the Elements of Early Vision Adelson, 1991 (Vyom). {Fun fact, I was a Cold Spring Harbor student when he first proposed this theory. I thought Ted was cute but his theory was crazy-crackers.}
From representation to action via reward
03/03 The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception, Grush (Derek)
The latest metaphor: NeuroAI
3/10 Performance-optimized hierarchical models predict neural responses in higher visual cortex. Yamins et al. (Srinidhi)
3/17 How does the primate brain combine generative and discriminative computations in the brain (Vaishnavi)
While this is a graduate seminar, undergrads are welcome, feel free to email me for an add code.
Course requirements
- All students should read the paper(s) before the paper discussion
- Each week one student will act as discussion leader.
- The class is analogue (bring a paper copy – I will bring spares).
Paper List
This a list of papers it might be interesting to read. Please email me to add papers to this list.
Explaining face representation in the primate brain using different computational models
Le Chang, Bernhard Egger, Thomas Vetter, Doris Y. Tsao