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

Business Year

The Learning Salon

Neil Lewis Jr

Grace Lindsay

Fiery Cushman

György Buzsaki

Steven Piantadosi

Gina Poe

Marina Bedny

Jessica Flack

Evelina Fedorenko

Nathaniel Daw

Sara Mednick

David Badre

Oriel FeldmanHall

Gul Deniz Salali

Chris Summerfield

Anna Schapiro

Quentin Huys

Yoshua Bengio

Anne Collins

Earl Miller

David Chalmers

Michael Levin

Gualtiero Piccinini

Máté Lengyel

Morgan Barense

Tim Behrens

Adrienne Fairhall

Konrad Kording

Anthony Zador

Melanie Mitchell

Paul Cisek

Marcin Miłkowski

Recap and Panel Discussion

John Langford

Mazviita Chirimuuta

Iris van Rooij

Blake Richards

Jay McClelland

Jane Wang

Jessica Hamrick

Gary Marcus

Sam McDougle

Kimberly Stachenfeld

Caswell Barry

Hugo Spiers

Kirsty Graham

Randall O’Reilly

Katja Hofmann

Zenna Tavares

Anima Anandkumar

Jacqueline Gottlieb

Janice Chen

Simon Kornblith

Christopher Honey

Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett

Kate Crawford

Sam Gershman

David Barack

Andrew Whiten

Rosa Cao

Recap and Discussion Panel