Stanford Colloquium on Computer Systems: a talk by Geoffrey Hinton, Apr. 27, 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIRCybGgHts

( Some of the highlights of this remarkable lecture )

I heard a cool talk by Christopher Moore today:

Perception, Cortical Dynamics, and the Hemo-Neural Hypothesis.( extended abstract )

Tenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems ( Read more... )

In continuation of the yesterday's topic. Jonathan Cohen from Princeton and U. of Pittsburg claimes that the level of norepinephrine produced by LC (Locus ceruleus) serves as a switch between exploitation and exploration modes.

On monkeys: exploitation mode: low LC activity, phasic mode of firing of LC neurons; exploration mode: high LC activity, ( Read more... )

There is too many notes related to 10th ICCNS conference to be made. So I'll probably keep them here and will make digests in the main journal once in a while.

Various retrograde amnesia effects are well known. James McGaugh of the University of California at Irvine demostrated the effects of retrograde memory enhancement if norepinephrine is ( Read more... )

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/neural-coding.html

Ermentrout, Rinzel:
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/bardware/meth3/meth3.html