Planned Segment

Cortical Microcircuits and Canonical Computation

Guest: Dr. Rodney Douglas

Does cortex implement a stereotyped microcircuit computation across areas, or is each region fundamentally specialized?

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Criticality and Phase Transitions in Neural Networks

Guest: Dr. John Beggs

Does the brain operate at criticality for computational advantages, or do neural avalanches reflect generic scale-free dynamics?

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Neuronal Gain Control and Normalization

Guest: Dr. Matteo Carandini

Is divisive normalization a canonical neural computation or a descriptive summary of diverse circuit mechanisms?

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Predictive Processing in Motor Control

Guest: Dr. Daniel Wolpert

Does motor control primarily rely on feedback correction or internal forward models predicting sensory consequences?

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Cortical Columns as Computational Units

Guest: Dr. David Mountcastle

Are cortical columns fundamental processing modules or outdated anatomical abstractions without computational significance?

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Semantic Memory Organization and Retrieval

Guest: Dr. James McClelland

Is semantic knowledge stored in distributed networks or localized conceptual hubs, and how does retrieval interact with reconstruction?