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Blake A. Richards

Researcher at McGill University

Publications -  100
Citations -  4750

Blake A. Richards is an academic researcher from McGill University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Artificial neural network. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 74 publications receiving 3168 citations. Previous affiliations of Blake A. Richards include Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

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A deep learning framework for neuroscience

TL;DR: It is argued that a deep network is best understood in terms of components used to design it—objective functions, architecture and learning rules—rather than unit-by-unit computation.
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Hippocampal neurogenesis regulates forgetting during adulthood and infancy.

TL;DR: Throughout life, new neurons are continuously added to the dentate gyrus, and as this continuous addition remodels hippocampal circuits, computational models predict that neurogenesis leads to degradation or forgetting of established memories.
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Neurons are recruited to a memory trace based on relative neuronal excitability immediately before training

TL;DR: The results indicate that neuronal memory allocation is based on relative neuronal excitability immediately before training, and that neurons with increased CREB are critical components of the memory trace.
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Towards deep learning with segregated dendrites

TL;DR: Guerguiev et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that artificial neurons more like those in the brain can enable deep learning and suggested that our own neurons may have evolved their shape to support this process.
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Towards deep learning with segregated dendrites

TL;DR: It is shown that a deep learning algorithm that utilizes multi-compartment neurons might help to understand how the neocortex optimizes cost functions, and the algorithm takes advantage of multilayer architectures to identify useful higher-order representations—the hallmark of deep learning.