Conference Presentations

Menendez, J.A., Hennig, J.A., Golub, M.G., Oby, E.R., Batista, A.P., Chase, S.M., Yu, B.M. & Latham, P.E. (2020, March). A motor cortical model of brain-machine interface learning, fast and slow. Poster presented at COSYNE Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA. abstract poster pdf

Menendez, J.A. (2019, November). A motor cortical model of brain-machine interface learning, fast and slow. Talk presented at Janelia Junior Scientist Workshop on Theoretical Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA. slides

Menendez, J.A. & Latham, P.E. (2019, March). Learning low-dimensional inputs for brain-machine interface control. Poster presented at COSYNE Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal. abstract poster pdf

Menendez, J.A. & Latham, P.E. (2018, June). Bayesian weight updates stabilize and improve local learning in a recurrent neural network. Poster presented at Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles Conference, Firá, Santorini, Greece. abstract poster pdf

Menendez, J.A. & Latham, P.E. (2017, November). Computing with rates vs spikes: insights from two solutions to an integrator network. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA. poster pdf

Menendez, J.A. (2016, February). Towards a computational account of art cognition: unifying perception, visual art, and music through Bayesian inference. Talk presented at the Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Conference, part of the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Francisco, CA, USA. slides proceedings paper

Menendez, J.A., Falsini, B., Ambrosio, L. & Corbo, G. (2015, May). Predicting face recognition ability using macular focal cone electroretinography in patients with macular degeneration. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Denver, CO, USA. poster pdf

Menendez, J.A., Bae, G.Y., Wilson, C. & Flombaum, J.I. (2014, May). Deriving configuration effects in spatial working memory from rational correspondence. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. slides

Menendez, J.A., Bae, G.Y., Wilson, C. & Flombaum, J.I. (2013, November). A computational basis for configuration effects in spatial working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Toronto, ON, Canada. poster pdf


Other academic talks

Talk at Niv Lab, Princeton University: RNN’s and BMI’s: linking network dynamics to behavior (March, 2020) slides

Talk at UCL PhDs in Systems Neuroscience (UPSyNe) Society bimestrial meeting: Brain-machine interface learning, fast and slow: a motor cortical circuit model of learning inside and outside the neural manifold (October, 2019) slides


Community Outreach

Outreach talk at "Meet The Scientist" event hosted by the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK: The blind electrician: how neurons learn from experience slides