Trends in neurosciences
Jan 20, 2023
How do humans and other animals learn new tasks? A wave of brain recording studies has investigated how neural representations change during task learning, with a focus on how tasks can be acquired and coded in ways that minimise mutual interference....
Trends in neurosciences
Jan 17, 2023
Neuroscientists have long characterized the properties and functions of the nervous system, and are increasingly succeeding in answering how brains perform the tasks they do. But the question 'why' brains work the way they do is asked less often. The...
Trends in neurosciences
Jul 4, 2022
Catastrophic forgetting (CF) refers to the sudden and severe loss of prior information in learning systems when acquiring new information. CF has been an Achilles heel of standard artificial neural networks (ANNs) when learning multiple tasks sequent...
Trends in neurosciences
Jan 21, 2022
Our brains have evolved the ability to configure and adapt their processing states to match the unique challenges of acting and learning in diverse environments and behavioral contexts. In biological nervous systems, such state specification and adap...
Trends in neurosciences
Sep 1, 2021
Learning to act in an environment to maximise rewards is among the brain's key functions. This process has often been conceptualised within the framework of reinforcement learning, which has also gained prominence in machine learning and artificial i...
Trends in neurosciences
May 14, 2021
Recent advances in deep learning have allowed artificial intelligence (AI) to reach near human-level performance in many sensory, perceptual, linguistic, and cognitive tasks. There is a growing need, however, for novel, brain-inspired cognitive archi...
Trends in neurosciences
May 5, 2020
In 1982, John Hopfield published a neural network model for memory retrieval, a model that became a cornerstone in theoretical neuroscience. In a recent paper, Krotov and Hopfield built on these early studies and showed how a network that incorporate...
Trends in neurosciences
Apr 30, 2020
Artificial intelligence advances have led to robots endowed with increasingly sophisticated social abilities. These machines speak to our innate desire to perceive social cues in the environment, as well as the promise of robots enhancing our daily l...
Trends in neurosciences
Jul 31, 2019
Machine learning approaches may provide ways to link brain activation patterns to behavior at an individual-subject level. Using a comparative performance analysis, Jollans and colleagues (Neuroimage, 2019) highlight in a recent paper key considerati...
Trends in neurosciences
Mar 9, 2015
The classification of neurons into types has been much debated since the inception of modern neuroscience. Recent experimental advances are accelerating the pace of data collection. The resulting growth of information about morphological, physiologic...