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Anna Schapiro

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Torah Curious

James FitzGerald

Jessica Thompson

David Rosen

Ryan Poplin

Blake Richards

Terrence Sejnowski

David Ferrucci

Raia Hadsell

Melanie Mitchell

Matt Smith

Alison Gopnik

Brian Christian

Robert Wilson

Anil Seth

Jeff Hawkins

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Anna Schapiro thinks how we live matters. From her earliest memories of her grandparents in Moscow to her travels and travails in school and society, Anna believes in putting more goodness and love out into the world. Anna is rooted---but also wants to use this rootedness to dig deeper. Come and learn from Anna about learning, art, and how to figure out what something is really about.   For more on Anna, check out her website: https://www.annaschapiro.com/

Anna Schapiro thinks how we live matters. From her earliest memories of her grandparents in Moscow to her travels and travails in school and society, Anna believes in putting more goodness and love out into the world. Anna is rooted---but also wants to use this rootedness to dig deeper. Come and learn from Anna about learning, art, and how to figure out what something is really about.  For more on Anna, check out her website: <a href="https://www.annaschapiro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.annaschapiro.com/</a>

S2 Ep 6 w/Anna Schapiro: An artist must be a good person

How does knowledge in the world get into our brains and integrated with the rest of our knowledge and memories? Anna and I talk about the complementary learning systems theory introduced in 1995 that posits a fast episodic hippopcampal learning system and a slower statistical cortical learning system. We then discuss her work that advances and adds missing pieces to the CLS framework, and explores how sleep and sleep cycles contribute to the process. We also discuss how her work might contribute to AI systems by using multiple types of memory buffers, a little about being a woman in science, and how it’s going with her brand new lab. Show Notes: Anna’s Penn Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab. Follow Anna on Twitter: @annaschapiro. Papers we discuss: The original Complimentary Learning Systems paper:  Complimentary Learning Systems Theory and Its Recent Update. Anna’s work on CLS and Hippocampus: The hippocampus is necessary for the consolidation of a task that does not require the hippocampus for initial learning. Complementary learning systems within the hippocampus: a neural network modelling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning. Examples of her work on sleep: Active and effective replay: Systems consolidation reconsidered again. Switching between internal and external modes: A multiscale learning principle. Sleep Benefts Memory for Semantic Category Structure While Preserving Exemplar-Specifc Information. 

How does knowledge in the world get into our brains and integrated with the rest of our knowledge and memories? Anna and I talk about the complementary learning systems theory introduced in 1995 that posits a fast episodic hippopcampal learning system and a slower statistical cortical learning system. We then discuss her work that advances and adds missing pieces to the CLS framework, and explores how sleep and sleep cycles contribute to the process. We also discuss how her work might contribute to AI systems by using multiple types of memory buffers, a little about being a woman in science, and how it’s going with her brand new lab. Show Notes: <ul><li>Anna’s <a href="https://www.schapirolab.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Penn Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab</a>. </li><li>Follow Anna on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnaSchapiro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@annaschapiro</a>. </li><li>Papers we discuss: <ul><li>The original Complimentary Learning Systems paper:  <ul><li><a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/57f1/16f3e6780424463cc8416ce755a72f873aa9.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complimentary Learning Systems Theory</a> and <a href="http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut/IntroPDP/papers/KumaranHassabisMcClelland16TICS.CompLearnSysTheoryUpdated.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Its Recent Update</a>. </li></ul></li><li>Anna’s work on CLS and Hippocampus: <ul><li><a href="https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/b37d16_61bfa65cd22c409b8c651cd8ea75e4df.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The hippocampus is necessary for the consolidation of a task that does not require the hippocampus for initial learning</a>. </li><li><a href="https://www.sleepandcognition.org/Schapiro_etal_PhilTrans_2016.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complementary learning systems within the hippocampus: a neural network modelling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning</a>. </li></ul></li><li>Examples of her work on sleep: <ul><li><a href="https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/b37d16_707d25d760e34ddd952785dad8991f7c.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Active and effective replay: Systems consolidation reconsidered again</a>. </li><li><a href="https://www.sleepandcognition.org/Honey_etal_2017.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Switching between internal and external modes: A multiscale learning principle</a>. </li><li><a href="https://www.sleepandcognition.org/Schapiro_etal_SR_2017.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sleep Benefts Memory for Semantic Category Structure While Preserving Exemplar-Specifc Information</a>. </li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>

BI 043 Anna Schapiro: Learning in Hippocampus and Cortex