Joel Zylberberg
Appointment
Associate Fellow
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2016-2018
Learning in Machines & Brains
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About
Visual stimuli elicit action potentials in the retina, that propagate to the brain, where further action potentials are elicited.
What is the nature of this visual representation? In other words, what is the correspondence between patterns of action potentials in the brain, and the stimuli that caused them? Moreover, how are these representations learned through experience? Finally (how) can we “upload” the brain’s visual representations into computers, to make better artificial intelligence systems? These are the central themes of my research program.
Awards
- Sloan Research Fellowship, 2017
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2017
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Student Research Fellowship, 2011
- Fulbright Science and Technology PhD Fellowship, 2008
Relevant Publications
W. Kindel, E. Christensen, and J. Zylberberg (2019). Using deep learning to probe the neural code for images in primary visual cortex. Journal of Vision 19: 29.
J. A. Pruszynski, and J. Zylberberg (2019). The language of the brain: real-world neural population codes. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 58: 30.
J. Zylberberg and B. Strowbridge (2017). Mechanisms of persistent activity in cortical circuits: possible neural substrates for working memory. Annual Review of Neuroscience 40: 603-627.
J. Zylberberg, J.T. Murphy, and M.R. DeWeese (2011). A sparse coding model with synaptically local plasticity and spiking neurons can account for the diverse shapes of V1 simple cell receptive fields. PLoS Computational Biology 7: e1002250.
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