Speakers

List of MAIN 2020 Speakers and Panelists

• Danielle Bassett (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA) ➤ State transitions in matter and mind

• Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France, Paris) ➤ Consciousness: From Computation to Cognition, Cognitive Neuroscience and the Clinic

• Eve Marder (Brandeis University, MA, USA) ➤ Differential Resilience to Perturbations of Circuits with Similar Performance

• Nicole Rust (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA) ➤ How we remember what we've seen

• Pouya Bashivan (McGill University) ➤ Computational models of visual perception for neural prediction and control

• Tim Behrens (University of Oxford, UK) ➤ Panelist - Memory in Brains and Machines

• Yoshua Bengio (Mila, Université de Montréal) ➤ Deep Learning and Neuroscience Synergy: from synapses to consciousness

• Ian Charest (University of Birmingham, UK) ➤ Semantic representations of natural scenes in the human brain

• Daniel Dennett (Tufts University, MA, USA) ➤ Panelist - Consciousness in Brains and Machines

• Guillaume Dumas (Université de Montréal) ➤ From Social Physiology to Social Neuro-AI

• Becket Ebitz (Université de Montréal) ➤ The neuroscience of exploration

• Alona Fyshe (University of Alberta, Canada) ➤ How can brain imaging data guide model training?

• Lucia Melloni (Max-Planck Institute, Frankfurt, Germany) ➤ Panelist - Consciousness in Brains and Machines

• Lisa Miracchi (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA) ➤ Relevance, Echo Chambers, and Generative Explanation

• Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research, NYC, USA) ➤ Toward a Human-like Reinforcement Learning

• Blake Richards (Mila, McGill University) ➤ Moderator - Memory in Brains and Machines

• Anil Seth (University of Sussex, UK) ➤ The strength of weak artificial consciousness

• Sara Solla (Northwestern University, IL, USA) ➤ Panel discussion with students in Neuro-AI

• Kim Stachenfeld (Google DeepMind, UK) ➤ Representation Learning in the Hippocampal-Entorhinal Circuit

• James Whittington (University of Oxford, UK) ➤ The Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine: Unifying space and relational memory in the hippocampal formation

• Kareem Zaghloul (NIH, NINDS, USA) ➤ Neural signatures of memory and information in the human brain

• Stefanie Blain-Moraes (McGill University) ➤ Introduction to the Neuroscience of Consciousness

• Gunnar Blohm (Queen's University) ➤ Introduction to writing scientific papers

• Pamela Douglas (UCF/UCLA, CA, USA) ➤ Introduction to Interpreting Deep Learning Models

• Paul Cisek (Université de Montréal) ➤ Introduction to Decision Making models

• Doina Precup (Mila, McGill University) ➤ Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

• Pradeep Reddy Raamana (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA) ➤ Introduction to Machine Learning

• Irina Rish (Mila, Université de Montréal) ➤ Introduction to Continual Learning

• Sara Solla (Northwestern University, IL, USA) ➤ Introduction to Dimensionality Reduction

• Jessica Thompson (Mila - Université de Montréal) ➤ Comparing the activity of artificial and biological networks