Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, February 3, 2011 Jonathan Pillow (Assistant Professor, UT Austin) talks about using assumption-free statistics to to extract structure from high dimensional data.  The group discusses levels of analysis in computational  modeling, and considers the merits of using functional behavior of neurons ("the what") in the absence of mechanism ("the how") as the starting point when modeling complex neural systems. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.