World Pieces: The Neuroscience of Conflict

A study of conflict resolution through neuroscience with Emile Bruneau and Rebecca Saxe. By Kenrick Vezina, Gillian Conahan and Emily Ruppel.

Wiener-Hopf equations & Convolution and correlation in continuous time

In this lecture the famous Wiener-Hopf equations are introduced, and it is shown how they can be used to calculate the filter in a model of the neuron, where the output is a linear filtration of the stimulus. In addition, convolution and correlation in continuous time ...

Where Morals Come From (And Why it Matters)

09/20/2007 5:30 PM Wong AuditoriumBeatriz Luna, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; John Mikhail, Associate Professor, Law Center and Philosophy Department, Georgetown University; Patrick Byrne, ...

What Harm Does Pathological Synchronization in Parkinson's Disease Do?

05/07/2009 11:15 AM 46"3002Peter Brown, Institute of Neurology, LondonDescription: Like tuning in a station on the FM band of a radio, neuroscientists can detect the particular frequencies of our brains in action. And just as on the radio, a little noise and static is ...

Welcome to Your Brain

A brief introduction to the brain and its basic building block — the remarkable neuron. Produced by MIT PhD students Alex Rivest/Steve Ramirez.  

Welcome and Introductory Remarks & Introduction to Brain Disorders

Dean Marc Kastner, MIT School of Science Mriganka Sur, PhD, FRS 2011 An Afternoon with MIT's Brains on Brains Symposium MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. Our world-renowned neuroscientists and ...

VQ and PCA

Visual receptive fields II

Visions of Neuroscience

Janine Dale Mendola, recorded 12/5/12

Vision of the Future (Part 2)

12/01/2005 10:45 AM picower atrium 3rd floorEric R. Kandel, University Professor, and Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, Columbia University 2000 Nobel; James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1965 Nobel Description: If the century just ...

Vision of the Future (Part 1)

12/01/2005 9:00 AM picower atrium 3rd floorIra Flatow, Host/Executive Producer, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday ; Susumu Tonegawa, Director, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory; ; Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences; ...

Vision II

Vector quantization and Principal component analysis

Unsupervised learning for perceptrons

Thinking