SueYeon Chung will be joining the CBS community as a faculty member. She will be a Kempner Institute Investigator and faculty member in Physics and Applied Math….
Jacob Zavatone-Veth receives American Physical Society Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Jacob on receiving the 2024 Dissertation Award in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Follow link for more information…
Jacob Zavatone-Veth receives NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
Congratulations to Jacob, a Junior Fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows! The award will fund his work on recurrent neural network theory. Follow the link to more information….
How the tempo of sequence memories can be set by learning rules
Farrell M and Pehlevan C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Aug 6;121(32):e2309876121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2309876121…
Film about 2024 Brain Prize winners
Follow the link to the 10-minute film called “The Brain Prize 2024 Ceremony film,” which features Haim Sompolinsky with cameos by others in the Harvard community. It isn’t about the ceremony; it’s an impressionistic portrait of the prizewinners….
NTT Research gift establishes CBS-NTT Fellowship Program
Gift supports postdoctoral research in the physics of intelligence…
Ba, Konkle, Pehlevan, and Sompolinsky named inaugural Kempner Institute Associate Faculty
Demba Ba, Talia Konkle, Cengiz Pehlevan, and Haim Sompolinsky were named the Institute’s inaugural cohort of “associate faculty.”…
Coordinated drift of receptive fields in Hebbian/anti-Hebbian network models during noisy representation learning
Qin S, Farashahi S, Lipshutz D, Sengupta AM, Chklovskii DB, Pehlevan C
Nat Neurosci. 2023 Jan 12. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01225-z. PMID: 36635497…
Rapid synaptic and gamma rhythm signature of mouse critical period plasticity
Quast KB, Reh RK, Caiati MD, Kopell N, McCarthy MM, Hensch TK
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jan 10;120(2):e2123182120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2123182120…
Population codes enable learning from few examples by shaping inductive bias
Bordelon B, Pehlevan C
Elife. 2022 Dec 16;11:e78606. doi: 10.7554/eLife.78606….
Neural representational geometry underlies few-shot concept learning
Ben Sorscher, S. Ganguli, H. Sompolinsky
DOI:10.1073/pnas.220080…
Haim Sompolinsky deepens ties to Harvard
Haim Sompolinsky has joined Harvard full-time, as a Professor in Residence….
RL at Harvard workshop
Thank you to everyone, especially Paul Masset, for helping to make the CBS NeuroTheory workshop a success! Click on the link below to see some photos Souvik Mandal took at the event….
Haim Sompolinsky wins Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize
Haim has been awarded the Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize, along with Larry Abbott, Emery Brown, and Terry Sejnowski “for pioneering contributions to computational and theoretical neuroscience.”…
On neural network kernels and the storage capacity problem
Jacob A Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan
Neural Computation (2022) 34 (5): 1136–1142….
The role of state uncertainty in the dynamics of dopamine
John G Mikhael, HyungGoo R Kim, Naoshige Uchida, Samuel J Gershman
Current Biology Volume 32, Issue 5, 14 March 2022, Pages 1077-1087.e9….
A self-supervised domain-general learning framework for human ventral stream representation
Talia Konkle and G. Alvarez…