🎥 🔬 Our new outreach video series is coming out next week! First 2 episodes 🎬: 👉 Impact of eye movements on the vision 👁 Rava Azeredo da Silveira lab Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS 👉 How to fight chemically induced neuropathy? 💊 I. Brunet lab Collège de France Do not miss it! Ça Fait Science Université PSL

A short video on the doctoral work of Trang-Anh Nghiem, pursued in collaboration with Jenny Reiniger and Wolf Harmening, on this question: How do the small, random movements of our eyes affect vision? (With English subtitles.) youtube.com/watch?v=47Nkyz…

Recent graduate from the lab, Simone Blanco Malerba Simone Blanco Malerba describes some of his doctoral work on how neurons can encode information efficiently and on how the information can be decoded readily, in this short video. youtube.com/watch?v=dJlYuk…

A summer school on "Imperfect Cognition and Economic Behaviour" which promises to be very interesting. For more information and the application procedure, see iias.huji.ac.il/event/economic….

NeurIPS workshop on information theory and cognition sites.google.com/view/infocog-n… Paper submission deadline: September 20, 2023

Lecture on "Cognitive Biases and Costly Mental Representations," at the The 33rd Advanced School in Economic Theory: Imperfect Cognition and Economic Behaviour, IIAS, Jerusalem, June-July 2023. youtube.com/watch?v=gvmxGc…

Lecture on "Coding Imperfections and Costly Neural Representations," at the The 33rd Advanced School in Economic Theory: Imperfect Cognition and Economic Behaviour, IIAS, Jerusalem, June-July 2023. youtube.com/watch?v=HPiqLb…

The cognitive process of decision making in a coordination game viewed as a generalized variational autoencoder. With Guy Aridor and Mike Woodford. Preprint at silveira-lab.com/_files/ugd/29d…

Jointly efficient encoding and decoding: neural systems as variational autoencoder. With Simone Blanco Malerba, Aurora Micheli, and Mike Woodford. Preprint at biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super excited about our #InfoCog2023 NeurIPS Conference workshop, building on last year's successful workshop! We have a wonderful lineup of invited speakers and welcome submissions through Sep. 20 sites.google.com/view/infocog-n… Dani S. Bassett noahdgoodman Alex Alemi Rava Azeredo da Silveira #NeurIPS2023

Why do people act randomly when playing games? And why do their actions depend on the context? Here is a paper which addresses these questions by extending a machine learning framework to cognitive processes: nber.org/papers/w32113

People have biased expectations when they play roulette (or invest in stocks). This is not because they are irrational; they are, but rationality is costly. Here are some behavior experiments and a model: elifesciences.org/articles/81256

Applications are open for a summer school on decision making on the beautiful campus of the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, in Rabat (Morocco). For details and the application procedure, see rislab.net/summerschool.

Applications are open for the CNeuro2024 summer school in computational neuroscience to be held in Beijing, 8-15 July 2024. Rolling admissions starting March 1. See cneuro.net/cneuro2024 for details on program and application process.

Applications are open for the NeuroBridges 2024 summer school in neuroscience with focus on decision making. For details and the application procedure, see neurobridges.net.

A simple mathematical model perfectly captures the shape and statistics of hippocampal place fields in mouse, rat, and bat, in one, two, and three dimensions. With निश्चल and Yoram Burak. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Successful completion of our summer school CNeuro 2024, in Beijing.

Neural systems as jointly optimizing encoding and decoding: a generalization of efficient coding. With Simone Blanco Malerba, Aurora Micheli, and Mike Woodford. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Videos of all the lectures delivered at the CNeuro2024 summer school in theoretical and computational neuroscience. youtube.com/playlist?list=…