The Learning Salon is a weekly forum in which we explore bridges and contentions in biological and artificial learning. Each week our guest helps us uncover core theories, assumptions, and questions that lurk underneath the overwhelming proliferation of approaches to studying learning and intelligence.

Humans are often assumed to represent the apex of learning and cognition, and arguably achieving or surpassing human cognitive capacity is the goal of AI. And yet, dogs, rats, flies, and machines can also learn specific tasks, sometimes exceeding human performance. In The Learning Salon, we explore this conundrum by bringing together people with different philosophies, disciplinary backgrounds, and approaches. People at different stages of their careers or outside of academia altogether are equally welcome.

A big THANK YOU to World Wide Neuro for including us in their line-up of talks!

Ida (@criticalneuro) and John (@BLAM Lab)

and organizer 
Claire (@csuncodes)

World Wide Neuro

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The Learning Salon

Konrad Kording

Adrienne Fairhall

Melanie Mitchell

Anthony Zador

Marcin Miłkowski

Paul Cisek

Recap and Panel Discussion

John Langford

Blake Richards

Jay McClelland

Gary Marcus

Jessica Hamrick

Mazviita Chirimuuta

Iris van Rooij

Jane Wang

Sam McDougle

Kimberly Stachenfeld

Caswell Barry

Hugo Spiers

Katja Hofmann

Randall O’Reilly

Kirsty Graham

Christopher Honey

Jacqueline Gottlieb

Simon Kornblith

Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett

Kate Crawford

Anima Anandkumar

Janice Chen

David Barack

Sam Gershman

Zenna Tavares

Andrew Whiten

Rosa Cao

Recap and Discussion Panel

Neil Lewis Jr

Grace Lindsay

Steven Piantadosi

Gina Poe

Marina Bedny

György Buzsaki

Fiery Cushman

Evelina Fedorenko

Jessica Flack

Nathaniel Daw

Oriel FeldmanHall

Sara Mednick

Gul Deniz Salali

Chris Summerfield

David Badre

Anna Schapiro

Quentin Huys

Michael Levin

Anne Collins

David Chalmers

Earl Miller

Yoshua Bengio

Tim Behrens

Morgan Barense

Máté Lengyel

Gualtiero Piccinini