Brain Inspired

BI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025

17 Dec 2025

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BI 226 Tatiana Engel: The High and Low Dimensional Brain

03 Dec 2025

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BI 225 Henk De Regt: Understanding in Machines and Humans

19 Nov 2025

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BI 224 Dan Nicholson: Schrödinger’s What is Life? Revisited

05 Nov 2025

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BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience

22 Oct 2025

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BI 222 Nikolay Kukushkin: Minds and Meaning from Nature’s Ideas

08 Oct 2025

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BI 221 Ann Kennedy: Theory Beneath the Cortical Surface

24 Sep 2025

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BI 220 Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine: Dynamic Systems from Neurons to Brains

10 Sep 2025

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BI 219 Xaq Pitkow: Principles and Constraints of Cognition

27 Aug 2025

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BI 218 Chris Rozell: Brain Stimulation and AI for Mental Disorders

13 Aug 2025

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BI 217 Jennifer Prendki: Consciousness, Life, AI, and Quantum Physics

30 Jul 2025

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BI 216 Woodrow Shew and Keith Hengen: The Nature of Brain Criticality

16 Jul 2025

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BI 215 Xiao-Jing Wang: Theoretical Neuroscience Comes of Age

02 Jul 2025

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BI 214 Nicole Rust: How To Actually Fix Brains and Minds

18 Jun 2025

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BI 213 Representations in Minds and Brains

04 Jun 2025

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BI 212 John Beggs: Why Brains Seek the Edge of Chaos

21 May 2025

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BI 211 COGITATE: Testing Theories of Consciousness

07 May 2025

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BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics

22 Apr 2025

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BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test

09 Apr 2025

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BI 208 Gabriele Scheler: From Verbal Thought to Neuron Computation

26 Mar 2025

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BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds

12 Mar 2025

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Quick Announcement: Complexity Group

05 Mar 2025

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BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate

26 Feb 2025

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BI 205 Dmitri Chklovskii: Neurons Are Smarter Than You Think

12 Feb 2025

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BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn’t Measure Time

29 Jan 2025

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BI 203 David Krakauer: How To Think Like a Complexity Scientist

14 Jan 2025

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BI 202 Eli Sennesh: Divide-and-Conquer to Predict

03 Jan 2025

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BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain Co-Processors

18 Dec 2024

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BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI

04 Dec 2024

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BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation

26 Nov 2024

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BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI

11 Nov 2024

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BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think

25 Oct 2024

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BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød

11 Oct 2024

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BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød

08 Oct 2024

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BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting

27 Sep 2024

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BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI

11 Sep 2024

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BI 192 Àlex Gómez-Marín: The Edges of Consciousness

28 Aug 2024

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BI 191 Damian Kelty-Stephen: Fractal Turbulent Cascading Intelligence

15 Aug 2024

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BI 190 Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain

31 Jul 2024

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BI 189 Joshua Vogelstein: Connectomes and Prospective Learning

29 Jun 2024

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BI 188 Jolande Fooken: Coordinating Action and Perception

27 May 2024

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BI 187: COSYNE 2024 Neuro-AI Panel

20 Apr 2024

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BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted

25 Mar 2024

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BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior

06 Mar 2024

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BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles

20 Feb 2024

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BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning

06 Feb 2024

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BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again

19 Jan 2024

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BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence

25 Dec 2023

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BI 180 Panel Discussion: Long-term Memory Encoding and Connectome Decoding

11 Dec 2023

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BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism

27 Nov 2023

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BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions

13 Nov 2023

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BI 177 Special: Bernstein Workshop Panel

30 Oct 2023

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BI 176 David Poeppel Returns

14 Oct 2023

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BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents

03 Oct 2023

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BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything

13 Sep 2023

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BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence

30 Aug 2023

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BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down

07 Aug 2023

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BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition

22 Jul 2023

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BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab

11 Jul 2023

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BI 169 Andrea Martin: Neural Dynamics and Language

28 Jun 2023

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BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness

02 Jun 2023

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BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites

27 May 2023

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BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality

09 May 2023

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BI 165 Jeffrey Bowers: Psychology Gets No Respect

12 Apr 2023

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BI 164 Gary Lupyan: How Language Affects Thought

01 Apr 2023

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BI 163 Ellie Pavlick: The Mind of a Language Model

20 Mar 2023

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BI 162 Earl K. Miller: Thoughts are an Emergent Property

08 Mar 2023

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BI 161 Hugo Spiers: Navigation and Spatial Cognition

24 Feb 2023

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BI 160 Ole Jensen: Rhythms of Cognition

07 Feb 2023

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BI 159 Chris Summerfield: Natural General Intelligence

26 Jan 2023

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BI 158 Paul Rosenbloom: Cognitive Architectures

16 Jan 2023

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BI 157 Sarah Robins: Philosophy of Memory

02 Jan 2023

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BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception

23 Dec 2022

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BI 155 Luiz Pessoa: The Entangled Brain

10 Dec 2022

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BI 154 Anne Collins: Learning with Working Memory

29 Nov 2022

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BI 153 Carolyn Dicey-Jennings: Attention and the Self

18 Nov 2022

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BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse

08 Nov 2022

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BI 151 Steve Byrnes: Brain-like AGI Safety

30 Oct 2022

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BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes

15 Oct 2022

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BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence

05 Oct 2022

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BI 148 Gaute Einevoll: Brain Simulations

25 Sep 2022

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BI 147 Noah Hutton: In Silico

13 Sep 2022

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BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation

07 Sep 2022

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BI 145 James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face

28 Aug 2022

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BI 144 Emily M. Bender and Ev Fedorenko: Large Language Models

17 Aug 2022

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BI 143 Rodolphe Sepulchre: Mixed Feedback Control

05 Aug 2022

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BI 142 Cameron Buckner: The New DoGMA

26 Jul 2022

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BI 141 Carina Curto: From Structure to Dynamics

12 Jul 2022

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BI 140 Jeff Schall: Decisions and Eye Movements

30 Jun 2022

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BI 139 Marc Howard: Compressed Time and Memory

20 Jun 2022

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BI 138 Matthew Larkum: The Dendrite Hypothesis

06 Jun 2022

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BI 137 Brian Butterworth: Can Fish Count?

27 May 2022

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BI 136 Michel Bitbol and Alex Gomez-Marin: Phenomenology

17 May 2022

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BI 135 Elena Galea: The Stars of the Brain

06 May 2022

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BI 134 Mandyam Srinivasan: Bee Flight and Cognition

27 Apr 2022

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BI 133 Ken Paller: Lucid Dreaming, Memory, and Sleep

15 Apr 2022

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BI 132 Ila Fiete: A Grid Scaffold for Memory

03 Apr 2022

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BI 131 Sri Ramaswamy and Jie Mei: Neuromodulation-aware DNNs

26 Mar 2022

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BI 130 Eve Marder: Modulation of Networks

13 Mar 2022

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BI 129 Patryk Laurent: Learning from the Real World

02 Mar 2022

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