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8
JUL
2021

School of Cognitive Sciences

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Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club (online)

Sensorimotor processing and decision making

Dr. Mehdi Adibi, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology, Monash University


8 JUL 2021
16:00 - 17:30

Organized by: School of Cognitive Sciences
to receive the link to join online, please send email to theoretical.neurosci.ipm@gmail.com

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3
JUL
2021

School of Cognitive Sciences

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Workshop (online)

Tehran Patch-Clamp Workshop 2021



3 JUL 2021
13:00 - 21:00

Workshop (online)
July 3 , 2021 from 13 to 21





More Info: http://scs.ipm.ac.ir/docs/patchworkshop.pdf

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1
JUL
2021

School of Cognitive Sciences

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Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club (online)

Sensory adaptation in the whisker-mediated tactile system in rodents

Dr. Mehdi Adibi, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology, Monash University


1 JUL 2021
16:00 - 17:30

Organized by: School of Cognitive Sciences
to receive the link to join online, please send email to theoretical.neurosci.ipm@gmail.com

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In the natural environment, organisms are constantly exposed to a continuous stream of sensory input. The dynamics of sensory input changes with organisms behaviour and environmental context. The contextual variations may induce textgreater 100 fold change in the parameters of the stimulation an animal experiences. Thus, it is vital for the organism to adapt to the new diet of stimulation. The response properties of neurons, in turn, dynamically adjust to the prevailing properties of sensory stimulation, a process known as ‘neuronal adaptation’. Neuronal adaptation is an ubiquitous phenomenon across all sensory modalities and occurs at different stages of processing from periphery to cortex. Here, I will discuss the recent finding about the neuronal adaptation in the rodent whisker-mediated touch system and further summarise the functional effect of neuronal adaptation on the response dynamics and encoding efficiency of neurons at single cell and population level along the whisker-mediated touch system in rodents.





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8
JUN
2021

School of Cognitive Sciences

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Thesis Defense

"Contextual Effect on Single & Multi-attribute Valuation Procedure: Behavioral and Modeling Approach"

Zahra Barakchian , IPM


8 JUN 2021
16:00 - 18:00

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More Info: http://scs.ipm.ac.ir/docs/ThesisBarakchian.pdf

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1
JUN
2021

School of Cognitive Sciences

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IPM SCS Webinar

Explain the role of managers' cognitive capabilities in strategy implementation

Ata Ollah Harandi Ph.D. in Strategic Management, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran


1 JUN 2021
21:00 - 23:00

IPM SCS Webinar

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Numerous surveys and surveys over the past two decades show that 60 to 80% of companies do not achieve their strategic goals. When we talk about strategic management, we consider the three stages of strategy development, implementation, and evaluation as the main stages, and we consider strategic management as a technical process, step by step and stages that from the development of orientation pillars begins with environmental analysis and surveys and the development of strategies continues and ends with specific operational measures. In recent years, many strategic plans have been developed with the same approach in organizations, but as stated and research shows that many of these plans in practice and especially in achieving goals and influencing Key performance variables of the organization have failed. The success of organizations in dynamic and uncertain market conditions requires managers who have special capabilities to create value creation methods and modify previous ways and methods and have a deep understanding of the complexity of cause-and-effect relationships between market variables and components. Branches and disciplines such as behavioral strategy and cognitive psychology refer to these competencies as managers 'cognitive competence and strategic management thinkers consider managers' cognitive competence as the basis of the organization's dynamic capabilities. Having a behavioral view of strategy paves the way for improving the effectiveness of strategies in the field of operations. We have to accept that the strategic management process is not just a technical process, and the cognitive abilities of managers in this area can play an effective role in promoting the effectiveness of strategic plans. This webinar seeks to provide a model and framework to explain the role of managers' cognitive abilities in implementing strategies.

More Info: http://scs.ipm.ac.ir/talk.jsp

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10
MAR
2021

School of Cognitive Sciences

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Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club (online)

Novelty is not Surprise: Human exploratory and adaptive behavior in sequential decision-making

Alireza Modirshanechi, School of Computer and Communication Sciences and School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)


10 MAR 2021
16:00 - 17:30

Organized by: School of Cognitive Sciences
to receive the link to join online, please send email to theoretical.neurosci.ipm@gmail.com

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Classic reinforcement learning (RL) theories cannot explain human behavior in response to changes in the environment or in the absence of external reward. Here, we design a deep sequential decision-making paradigm with sparse reward and abrupt environmental changes. To explain the behavior of human participants in these environments, we show that RL theories need to include surprise and novelty, each with a distinct role. While novelty drives exploration before the first encounter of a reward, surprise increases the rate of learning of a world-model as well as of model-free action-values. Even though the world-model is available for model-based RL, we find that human decisions are dominated by model-free action choices. The world-model is only marginally used for planning but is important to detect surprising events. Our theory predicts human action choices with high probability and allows us to dissociate surprise, novelty, and reward in EEG signals.






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10
MAR
2021

School of Cognitive Sciences

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Workshop (online)

Google BERT - Pre Training and Fine Tuning for NLP Tasks

Mohammad Dehghani


10 MAR 2021
13:00 - 16:00

Workshop (online)
March 10 , 2021 from 13 to 16





More Info: http://scs.ipm.ac.ir/workshop.jsp

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27
FEB
2021

School of Cognitive Sciences

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Workshop (online)

Neuromarketing

Seyyed Abed Hosseini


27 FEB 2021
13:00 - 17:00

Workshop (online)
Feb 27, 2021 from 13 to 17





More Info: http://scs.ipm.ac.ir/workshop.jsp

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21
FEB
2021

School of Cognitive Sciences

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IPM SCS Webinar

Using Machine Learning for Building Game Playing Agents

Dr. Amin Babadi, Ph.D. candidate of computer science at Aalto University


21 FEB 2021
16:00 - 18:00

IPM SCS Webinar

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Since the early days of Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers have been using games as benchmarks for testing various AI algorithms. Due to the advances in the video gaming industry in the past twenty years, this approach has gained a lot more attention, especially in the machine learning community. The goal of this talk is to show how modern machine learning techniques can be used for building game playing agents. The first part of the talk will outline such techniques. In the second part, we will focus on the problem of physically-based control, which has numerous applications in games, simulation-based softwares, and robotics.

More Info: https://join.skype.com/MGe8Xj5nLePe

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