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Dániel Barabási
Neuroscience
Workshop
Neuroscience and Music Learning is a talk that uses three core concepts to help musicians understand how their brains work. First, that we are our neurons — billions of cells organizing into coordinated "flocks" that create our thoughts and memories. Second, that our brains are constantly updating and normalizing, which means practice makes permanent (not perfect) — we learn our bad habits and anxieties just as readily as our skills. Third, that we live inside our predictions, not raw reality — which explains both why we ruminate on mistakes and how expert practice works (comparing performance to an internal "blueprint").
Biography
Dániel Barabási, Ph.D. (1995, New York) is a FutureHouse AI-for-Science Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research career spans 15 labs, from the National Institutes of Health to MIT and Harvard, including a distinguished NeuroAI research scholar role at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Dániel’s work aims to capture biological complexity with theoretical simplicity. This aspiration similarly drives his creative endeavors, where he identifies analogs between the growth, function, and decay of systems, in both synthetic and natural realms.
In his research, Dániel unveils the assembly of our minds: how the collective decisions of individual cells generates the complex constellations of neuronal circuits. Such investigations unveil the beauty of the innate, where development has endowed us with the natural capacity to inquire, reflect, and create. Dániel mines the insights of neuroevolution, already successful in discovering biological general intelligence, to advance the exploration and design of artificial systems that may one day rival our own.
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