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Blake Richards

Alberta
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Canada First Conservative Member of Parliament for Airdrie-Cochrane
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Modeling the hallucinatory effects of classical psychedelics in terms of replay-dependent plasticity mechanisms

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By Colin Bredenberg, Fabrice Normandin, Blake Richards
| eLife
eLife Assessment This paper provides a useful new theory of the hallucinatory effects of 5-HT2A psychedelics. The authors present convincing evidence that a computational model trained with the Wake-Sleep algorithm can reproduce some features of hallucinations by varying the strength of top-down connections in the model, though it is not clear that this model applies to 5-HT2A hallucinogens in particular.
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Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity

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By Eva L Dyer, Blake Richards, Patrick J. Mineault, Kevin Mitchell
| The Transmitter
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, training large models on vast amounts of information. We asked nine experts on computational neuroscience and neural data analysis to weigh in.
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Blake Richards

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By Eva L Dyer, Blake Richards, Paul Middlebrooks, Claudia Lopez Lloreda 
| The Transmitter
Blake Richards is associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University. He is also a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and core academic member at Mila = the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. His research lies at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. His laboratory investigates universal principles of intelligence that apply to both natural and artificial agents.
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