[With help from David Weiss] I spent much of my PhD working on algorithms for making sense of gigabytes of brain data from fMRI scanners, especially on a fairly new approach called Multi-variate Pattern Analysis (MVPA). I want to show you how the MVPA approach is useful for tackling certain kinds of questions. Think of […]
The myth that we only use 10% of our brains is sticky and gets everywhere, much like glue-dipped belly button fluff. And just like glue-dipped belly button fluff, it’s a nuisance, and can only be combatted with the even-stickier duct tape of truth. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive, I’ll simply appeal to your intuitions […]
“no matter how much you practice, the bra is an elusive and clever adversary”
Why isn’t there a massive intricately hyperlinked semantic network brain encyclopaedia? I think I’d even pay for it to be constantly updated. Organised at the top level neuroanatomically, but with lots of functional information and links to articles, e.g. Brain areaBrodmann numberother names and abbreviationsdiagramsareas it’s a part ofareas which are part of itinputs fromprojects […]
[together with Carolina] Roller skate from Regents Park to Hyde Park Walk along the canal behind London Zoo and try and guess the animals from the backs of their cages Peer into the houseboats along Little Venice and tell stories about the people inside Run a sprint along the Millennium Bridge and feel it vibrate […]
I was sitting in a sun-warmed pizza restaurant in London last week talking about deep learning libraries. Everyone had their favourites. I was betting on TensorFlow, the new kid in town released by Google in late 2015. In response, a Torch fan pointed out that Google may invest in building up TensorFlow internally, but there’s no reason for […]
Abe Gong asked for good examples of ‘data sidekicks‘. @AbeGong @johnmyleswhite @vagabondjack @acarman @seanjtaylor brain-data sidekick: sanity-check you can classify blank screen vs stimuli — Greg Detre (@gregdetre) February 5, 2014 I still haven’t got the hang of distilling complex thoughts into 140 characters, and so I was worried my reply might have been compressed […]
When it comes to tools, I am a hedgehog rather than a fox. I like to have a small number of tools, and to know them well. I recently resolved to start writing again. But I decided that I needed to sharpen my pencils first. I have plans on how publishing and sharing should work. […]
[Back to Research] As a grad student, I worked as the teaching assistant for three classes at Princeton, and loved all of them. I also ran a few workshops for undergraduate and fellow grad students on Matlab, and the MVPA toolbox. [I’ll try and dig up my notes on these. TODO] Introduction to connectionist models Ken […]
[Back to Research] See also: the Norman lab publications page On my PhD thesis, Weakening memories by half-remembering them. See also: MVPA Toolbox and other research software I developed. Journals and book chapters Detre, G. J., Natarajan, A., Gershman, S. J. & Norman, K. A. (2013). Moderate levels of activation lead to forgetting in the think/no-think paradigm. Neuropsychologia. PDF […]
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