Cybernetic Seminar

Internationally known guests present topics that are of general interest - also for colleagues from other scientific fields. Each seminar if followed by a reception, which provides direct access to the speakers in an informal setting.

Time: Every Friday 11:00 a.m.
Place: TBA

To receive the talk announcements please send an Email to the contact persons to the left.

Neural control of sickness physiology

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Data-driven mathematical model of light- and melatonin-mediated effects on the human circadian clock

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A Model for Modulation of Hebbian Plasticity and Its Potential Role in Regulating Attention in the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

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Hierarchy and heterarchy of circuit mechanisms for behavioral control

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How could we make scientific software FAIR?

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Decoding the sensory bases of navigation and settlement behaviours in a zooplanktonic marine chordate.

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Dynamic cognition: moments into the future

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Dynamic representations for behavioral flexibility

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Hippocampal and cortical memory indexing, efficient extraction of knowledge from episodes, and functional synaptic connectivity changes

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Introducing the “Cognitive Neuroscience & Neurotechnology” group: Advancing insights into human high-level cognition

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When peripheral vision is refractory to predictions, extrapolation and memory effects

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The development of vision for action after sight restoration from congenital cataracts

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Brain-inspired Multimodal Deep-Learning

Brain-inspired Multimodal Deep-Learning
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Sensory Consequences of Visual Actions

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Analysis and modeling of sleep and circadian rhythms

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Learning to see stuff

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Working memory and episodic long-term memory

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Building computational phenotypes of latent psychopathological dimensions

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Circuit Mechanisms for Dynamic Acoustic Communication

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Real-world scene perception and search from foveal to peripheral vision

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Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind

  • Date: Oct 14, 2022
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nancy Kanwisher
  • Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Eric Schulz (Alexander Kipnis)
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Clustering and generalization of abstract structures in reinforcement learning and musicality

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Doing for our robots what nature did for us

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Cognitive tools for uncovering useful abstractions

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Getting rid of bias in decision making

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A neural model of task compositionality with natural language instructions

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From continuous streams to segmented units: Understanding how events structure cognition and memory

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Functional ultrasound imaging during behavior

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Amygdala circuitry in reward learning & decision making

  • Date: Apr 11, 2022
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kate Wassum
  • Professor, Wenzel/Jeffrey Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience, UCLA; Department of Psychology, Brain Research Institute, Integrative Center for Learning & Memory, Integrative Center for Addictive Disorders
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Peter Dayan (Philipp Schwartenbeck)
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Dissecting the neural processes supporting perceptual learning

  • Date: Mar 28, 2022
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Wu Li
  • State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Zhaoping Li (Jinyou Zou)
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Dynamics of visual cognition: A spatio-temporally resolved and algorithmically explicit account

  • Date: Feb 28, 2022
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Radek Cichy
  • Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition Group, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Eric Schulz (Alexander Kipnis)
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Attention to visual motion: shaping sensation into perception

  • Date: Feb 21, 2022
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stefan Treue
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Zhaoping Li (Jinyou Zou)
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Controversial stimuli: Optimizing experiments to adjudicate among computational hypotheses

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Inhibitory connectivity and computations in olfaction

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“Mind reading” with brain scanners: Facts versus science fiction

  • Date: Nov 22, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: John-Dylan Haynes
  • Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Chair for Theory and Analysis of Large Scale Brain Signals; Director of Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Eric Schulz (Alexander Kipnis)
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A Motor Theory of Sleep Control

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Rastermap: Extracting structure from high dimensional neural data

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Visualizing the multi-scale complexity of the brain

  • Date: Oct 11, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Guo-Qiang Bi, PhD
  • School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China & Center for Brain Information, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Jinyou Zou
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Cellular and Molecular basis of protein-specific appetite

  • Date: Sep 27, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Qili Liu
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience
  • Location: Zoom
  • Host: Lilian de Sardenberg Schmid
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The role of motion in localizing objects

  • Date: Sep 13, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Patrick Cavanagh
  • Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Glendon College & Research Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Research, Dartmouth College
  • Location: Zoom
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Non-invasive control using Sonogenetics

  • Date: Jul 19, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sreekanth Chalasani
  • Associate Professor, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
  • Location: Zoom
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Stereo vision in humans and insects

  • Date: Jul 5, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jenny Read
  • Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
  • Location: Zoom
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A statistical theory of cold-posteriors, semi-supervised learning and out-of-distribution detection

  • Date: Jun 21, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Laurence Aitchison
  • Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning and Computational Neuroscience, University of Bristol, UK
  • Location: Zoom
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Knowledge partitioning in humans and neural networks

  • Date: Jun 7, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christopher Summerfield
  • Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
  • Location: Zoom
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Deep meta-learning

  • Date: May 10, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Matthew Botvinick
  • Director of Neuroscience Research, Team Lead in AI Research, DeepMind & Honorary Professor, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
  • Location: Zoom
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