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Blake Richards
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Research
Latest papers
Life is inherently computational, and consciousness probably is too - A commentary on: Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2026 · first author
Top-down feedback in deep neural networks leads to functional differences during audiovisual integration.
eLife · 2026 · senior author
Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI.
Current biology : CB · 2026
Latest funding
- $209,607
A Holistic Assessment Approach to Support Teachers in Inclusive Classrooms
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $7,771,929
Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $998,325
Multiscale analysis of visual object recognition in the mouse
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
11 publications.
Life is inherently computational, and consciousness probably is too - A commentary on: Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism.
Richards B, Agüera Y Arcas B
Top-down feedback in deep neural networks leads to functional differences during audiovisual integration.
Tugsbayar M, Li M, Muller EB, Richards B
Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI.
Peters MAK, Michael Yoo SB, Klincewicz M, Toyoizumi T, Richards B, Webb T, Lau H
Modeling the hallucinatory effects of classical psychedelics in terms of replay-dependent plasticity mechanisms.
Bredenberg C, Normandin F, Richards B, Lajoie G
Distinct CA1 inputs support shifts in neural dimensionality and memory resolution.
McKenzie C, Ghosh A, Ramsaran AI, Wu B, Srinivasan S, Liu T, Josselyn SA, Richards B, Frankland PW
Learning to combine top-down context and feed-forward representations under ambiguity with apical and basal dendrites.
Islah N, Etter G, Tugsbayar M, Gurbuz BT, Richards B, Muller EB
Deep neural networks are not a single hypothesis but a language for expressing computational hypotheses.
Golan T, Taylor J, Schütt H, Peters B, Sommers RP, Seeliger K, Doerig A, Linton P, Konkle T, van Gerven M, Kording K, Richards B, Kietzmann TC, Lindsay GW, Kriegeskorte N
The neuroconnectionist research programme.
Doerig A, Sommers RP, Seeliger K, Richards B, Ismael J, Lindsay GW, Kording KP, Konkle T, van Gerven MAJ, Kriegeskorte N, Kietzmann TC
Catalyzing next-generation Artificial Intelligence through NeuroAI.
Zador A, Escola S, Richards B, Ölveczky B, Bengio Y, Boahen K, Botvinick M, Chklovskii D, Churchland A, Clopath C, DiCarlo J, Ganguli S, Hawkins J, Körding K, Koulakov A, LeCun Y, Lillicrap T, Marblestone A, Olshausen B, Pouget A, Savin C, Sejnowski T, Simoncelli E, Solla S, Sussillo D, Tolias AS, Tsao D
The application of artificial intelligence to biology and neuroscience.
Richards B, Tsao D, Zador A
A Holistic Assessment Approach to Support Teachers in Inclusive Classrooms
Principal investigators: Montgomery, Diane
Keywords: assessment; inclusive education; IEP; special education; accommodations; holistic; profile
Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Principal investigators: Lewis, Jason
Multiscale analysis of visual object recognition in the mouse
Principal investigators: Trenholm, Stuart
Keywords: 2-Photon Calcium Imaging; Artificial Intelligence; Behavioral Training; Chemogenetics; Cortex; Functional Ultrasound Imaging; Mouse; Visual Neuroscience; Visual Object Recognition
Partnership for Abundant Intelligences
Keywords: Indigenous research; Indigenous epistemologies; Indigenous knowledges; artificial intelligence; computational practice; cultural knowledge
The role of the retrosplenial cortex in orienting cognitive maps.
Principal investigators: Peyrache, Adrien
Keywords: spatial navigation learning and memory sleep brain dynamics neural networks
Credit assignment in the neocortex
Principal investigators: Richards, Blake
Keywords: learning algorithms; synaptic plasticity; neocortex; machine learning; gradient descent; computational modelling; 2-photon imaging; sensorimotor learning
Credit assignment in the neocortex
Principal investigators: Richards, Blake
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Danilo Bzdok and Blake Richards: 1 shared paper
- Guillaume Lajoie and Blake Richards: 1 shared paper
- Biological Sciences (Scarborough)
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Other
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