MITCBMM Courses

Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Compositionality

Explore the concept of compositionality across various domains, including language, tool use, and drawing, with insights into its mechanisms and applications in cognitive science.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Efficient Representation, Learning, and Planning Through Abstraction - Clustering Cognitive Spaces Into Submaps

Explore efficient representation and learning through abstraction, focusing on cognitive space clustering and its impact on memory, navigation, and planning in complex environments.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Recurrent Neural Networks for Cognitive Neuroscience

Hands-on tutorial exploring RNNs in cognitive neuroscience through coding exercises. Learn to train and analyze RNNs for various tasks, with lecture and workshop components using Google Colab Notebooks.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Interpolation and Learning With Scale Dependent Kernels

Explore scale-dependent kernels in machine learning, covering overfitting, statistical theory, and practical applications in regression and interpolation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Faces and Social Interactions

Explore primate social intelligence, face perception, and neural mechanisms behind facial recognition and social interactions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

What Are the Computations Underlying Primate vs. Machine Vision?

Explore primate and machine vision computations, comparing face recognition, image processing, and neural networks. Gain insights into computational neuroscience and visual perception illusions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Functional Imaging of the Human Brain- A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind

Explore brain imaging techniques, functional specialization, and neural networks in understanding human cognition. Insights on face recognition, predictive models, and the organization of mental processes.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Hippocampal Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition - Part 1

Explore hippocampal mechanisms underlying memory and cognition, including structure, storage, retrieval, brain oscillations, and spatial firing patterns.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A Number Sense as an Emergent Property of the Manipulation Brain

Explore how number sense emerges from brain manipulation, examining experiments, perceptions, and the role of supervised learning in developing numerical understanding.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Attention

Explore selective attention, eye movements, and neural synchrony in this comprehensive examination of cognitive processes and perceptual mechanisms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Computational Models of Cognition - Reverse-Engineering Common Sense in the Human Mind and Brain Pt 1

Explore cognitive modeling to reverse-engineer human common sense, examining AI progress, scientific context, and probabilistic programming techniques for capturing learning and constructing models.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Neural Basis of Consciousness

Explore the neural foundations of consciousness, examining brain structures and theories with neuroscientist Christof Koch in this thought-provoking lecture.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Quest to Create Engineer-Quality Models of the Mechanisms of Human Visual Object Recognition - Pt1

Explore the mechanisms of human visual object recognition, focusing on systems-level models, reverse engineering, and the ventral visual stream's role in perception and AI applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Quest to Create Engineer-Quality Models of the Mechanisms of Human Visual Object Recognition - Part 2

Explore cutting-edge models of human visual object recognition, their implications for AI, and strategies for future research in neuroscience and machine learning.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How Brain Computations Can Inspire New Paths in AI - Part 2

Explore brain-inspired AI advancements, focusing on object recognition, contextual reasoning, and model performance. Gain insights into cutting-edge computational approaches and their applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video