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Ben Lansdell

Lead Machine Learning Engineer @ Stealth Health
Verified email at stjude.org
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Three aspects of representation in neuroscience

B Baker, B Lansdell, KP Kording - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Neuroscientists often describe neural activity as a representation of something, or claim to
have found evidence for a neural representation, but there is considerable ambiguity about …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of neuronal spike trains, deconstructed

J Aljadeff, BJ Lansdell, AL Fairhall, D Kleinfeld - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
… (B) Here we illustrate how an example visual stimulus is reformatted as a time-dependent
vector. Each stimulus frame has two spatial coordinates and a total of NX pixels. First, the …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient spike-driven learning with dendritic event-based processing

…, B Deng, B Lansdell, B Linares-Barranco - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… The variables V 0 , V 0 a , and V 0 b represent the membrane potentials of soma, apical
dendrite and basal dendrite, respectively. The dendritic compartments are defined as weighted …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii, provides insight into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development

…, S Tatsumoto, I Mandiou, A Hsu, KA McColl, B Lansdell… - Genome biology, 2011 - Springer
Background We present the genome sequence of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii,
which is a member of the kangaroo family and the first representative of the iconic hopping …

[PDF][PDF] The architecture and evolution of cancer neochromosomes

…, J Li, ZP Feng, BW Kim, M Kowarsky, B Lansdell… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
… and deletion (or INDEL) variation of significance (Supplemental Experimental Procedures),
extreme structural rearrangement and copy number variation was apparent (Figure 2B). …

Towards learning-to-learn

BJ Lansdell, KP Kording - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights • Learning-to-learn makes learning better. • Over many tasks a learner can
develop learning strategies (learn to optimize). • And it can discover structure that is common …

[PDF][PDF] Dimensionality reduction in neuroscience

R Pang, BJ Lansdell, AL Fairhall - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
… (B) The PCs are computed by finding the eigenvectors of the original covariance matrix (top).
When viewed in the reference frame of the PCs, all off-diagonal covariances become zero (…

Learning to solve the credit assignment problem

BJ Lansdell, PR Prakash, KP Kording - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.00889, 2019 - arxiv.org
B through node perturbation then we converge to W. Validation that the method learns to
approximate W, for fixed W, is provided in the supplementary material. In practice, we update B

[HTML][HTML] Neural spiking for causal inference and learning

BJ Lansdell, KP Kording - PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
When a neuron is driven beyond its threshold, it spikes. The fact that it does not communicate
its continuous membrane potential is usually seen as a computational liability. Here we …

[PDF][PDF] Innate frequency-discrimination hyperacuity in Williams-Beuren syndrome mice

…, SB Han, MH Patton, TY Eom, D Garic, BJ Lansdell… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
… (B and C) (B) Images of L4 excitatory cells responding to sound with changes in GCaMP6f
fluorescence in the ACx. (C) Segmented ROIs representing individual excitatory neurons. …