CHBH Seminar Series: Prof Marco Idiart

These seminars are free to attend and are open to all, both within and outside the University. Please register your interest to attend using the link above.

We are delighted to announce that the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH) will welcome Professor Marco Idiart, Professor of Physics and Head of the Neurocognition and Language Processing Lab at the Institute of Physics, of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (UFRGS), to present an online CHBH Seminar (via Zoom, with potential for a small physical audience), taking place on Thursday 16th December, 13:00-14:00 GMT.

To arrange a 1:1 meeting or would with either Prof Idiart, please contact us.

If you wish to attend, you can register your interest using the link above.

Can AI help us to understand how the brain processes language?

In this talk we discuss the challenges of modeling how linguistic information is stored and retrieved by the human brain. Using as a starting point an artificial intelligence algorithm for question answering (START) we ask what brain machinery would be able to implement it. Using that as a research framework we propose a set of biologically plausible neural network processes that could be involved in language. 

Speaker Biography

Marco Idiart is a Professor of Physics and head of the Neurocognition and Language Processing Lab at the Institute of Physics, of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (UFRGS).  His main research interests are on complex systems and artificial intelligence with particular focus on biological motivated models such as neural network models for memory storage and retrieval, spatial navigation, olfaction, and language processing. He was a Visiting Scholar at MIT (2014-2015) and at Brandeis University (2011-2012).

These seminars are free to attend and are open to all, both within and outside the University. Please register your interest to attend using the link above.