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<div dir="auto">Hi BIC & FYI - please note the different starting time <strong>(9AM)</strong> for tomorrow’s BIC lecture </div>
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<div dir="auto">Boris </div>
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<b>Date:</b> Mar 5, 2021, 11:44 AM -0500<br>
<b>To:</b> MNISTAFF@LISTS.MCGILL.CA <MNISTAFF@LISTS.MCGILL.CA><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Neuro Event: March 10, 9:00 am - Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind Seminar: "Reconstructing visual and subjective experience from the brain"<br>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Wednesday, March 10, 202</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1 <span style="color:black"><br>
</span>9<span style="color:black">:00 -</span> 10<span style="color:black">:00</span>A<span style="color:black">M</span> EST
<span style="color:red">(new time)</span><span style="color:black"><br>
Zoom</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/feindel-virtual-brain-and-mind-seminar-tickets-144040680553" target="_blank" title="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/feindel-virtual-mind-and-brain-seminar-tickets-128284916639">Registration
Required</a></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Livestreaming through <a href="https://vimeo.com/event/269074" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954F72">Vimeo</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Speaker: Yukiyasu Kamitani, PhD<br>
</span></b><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Department Head and ATR Fellow, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories,</span></span>
<span class="s2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">USA</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align:justify"><span class="s1">Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Abstract</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The internal visual world is thought to be encoded in hierarchical representations of the brain. However, previous attempts to visualize perceptual contents
based on machine-learning analysis of fMRI patterns have been limited to reconstructions with low level image bases or to matchings to exemplars. While categorical decoding of imagery contents has been demonstrated, the reconstruction of internally generated
images has been challenging. I introduce our recent study showing that visual cortical activity can be decoded (translated) into the hierarchical features of a pre-trained deep neural network (DNN) for the same input image, providing a way to make use of the
information from hierarchical visual features. Next I present a novel image reconstruction method, in which the pixel values of an image are optimized to make its DNN features similar to those decoded from human brain activity at multiple layers. Our method
was able to reliably produce reconstructions that resembled the viewed natural images. While the model was solely trained with natural images, it successfully generalized to artificial shapes, indicating that our model was not simply matching to exemplars.
The same analysis applied to mental imagery demonstrated rudimentary reconstructions of the subjective content. Our method can effectively combine hierarchical neural representations to reconstruct perceptual and subjective images, providing a new window into
the internal contents of the brain.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">T<span style="color:black">he</span></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Feindel</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Virtual
Brain and Mind (VBM) Seminar Series</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Advancing the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918–2014), former Director of the Neuro (1972–1984) and Founding Director of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (1984), to constantly bridge the clinical and research realms. The talks will highlight the latest
advances and discoveries in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Speakers will include scientists from across The Neuro, as well as colleagues and collaborators locally and from around the world. The series is intended
to provide a virtual forum for scientists and trainees to continue to foster interdisciplinary exchanges on the mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of brain and cognitive disorders. If you, or someone you know, would be interested in presenting please contact
us to secure a spot on the schedule.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Looking forward to reconnecting!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Nathan Spreng<br>
Boris Bernhardt<br>
Bratislav Misic </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:15.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To register:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/feindel-virtual-brain-and-mind-seminar-tickets-144040680553" target="_blank" title="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/feindel-virtual-mind-and-brain-seminar-tickets-128284916639">Eventbrite</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:15.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Contact :</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <a href="mailto:sasha.kelly@mcgill.ca" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954F72">Sasha
Kelly</span></a>, Events</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">and Conference<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">Coordinator</span>,
The Neuro</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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