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#7 Tony Zador: The Embodied Turing Test, Genomic Bottlenecks, Molecular Connectomics

Tony has a lab at Cold Spring Harbour, New York. Using rodents, his lab studies the neural circuits underlying auditory decisions. He is...

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The evolution of the posterior cingulate cortex: Landmarks, autobiographical memories, and self

Many have pointed out that the neuronal dynamics in the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex enabling spatial navigation, may also facilitate...

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#4 Beren Millidge: Reinforcement Learning through Active Inference

Beren is a postdoc in Oxford with a background in machine learning and computational neuroscience. He is interested in Active Inference...