Category: Journal club

• Enhanced spatial resolution during locomotion

  

  Seeing is expensive – how does the brain optimize neural coding so it can see clearly when it matters? [Image courtesy LadyDragonFlyCC CC BY 2.0]

• 5 easy pieces: How Deepmind mastered Go

  

  Deepmind built an AI that masters Go. How did they do it? A technical introduction.

• Exercise, be smarter, save time

  

  “I don’t have time” – That’s probably the most common excuse for not exercising. But what if your mind was clearer, more efficient after you hit the gym?

• New feature: recently read papers

  A little known feature of Zotero is that the online version can generate an RSS feed from a collection. The feed is served via https, which is fine for e.g. feedly. However, WordPress.com doesn’t like https RSS feeds, so I forwarded my feed using feedcat – a pretty terrible service, but it was the first […]

• NIPS 2013 papers

  Fresh off the presses, NIPS 2013 conference papers are here. Here’s a nice visualization complete with PDF preview, keyword analysis and categorization – via LDA, appropriately enough. Topic 6 appears to be neuroscience. Via Nuit Blanche.

• Category information in the brain

  The Gallant lab have a new paper out in Neuron using fMRI to study the brain’s representation of visual scene categories. It’s a slick little paper, using some fun machine learning algorithms (Latent Dirichlet allocation) that shows that there’s a substantial amount of latent semantic information available at the fMRI macroscale – raising the question […]