The Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Cluster is pleased to welcome Associate Professor Kerry Walker from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, who will talk about the "representation of sound in the brain", followed by a roundtable discussion.

This event will be held in Seminar Room 3 and is open to all members of the college.

Further information: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/mind-brain-and-behaviour-mbb-research-cluster

Martin Frasch is a Research Affiliate at the Center on Human Development and Disability and an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is also an entrepreneur with a focus on Digital Health. Martin's research has been on the exciting intersection of physiology, health biometrics, wearables, maternal, child and seniors' health, biosignal processing and health outcomes prediction: from bench to bed, incl. product development and commercialization. His work on physiological monitoring has been internationally recognized with over 200 publications, memberships in international research societies, service on the editorial boards of multiple top-tier academic journals and research grant review panels worldwide. 



Visit his website and LinkedIn for more information: FraschLab.org & https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfrasch/





Abstract

I will begin the conversation by positioning machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) in the field of preclinical and clinical physiological modeling of health outcomes, especially early detection of brain injury. I will present examples of top-down and bottom-up approaches using DL to detect fetal distress as well as of featurization of physiological time series in ML frameworks using all five signal-analytical domains of variability to identify physiological phenotypes. I will place it next to an example of two symbolic logic approaches to computational systems physiology, exemplified by an in silico model of labor and coordination dynamics/metabolic optimization. Finally, closing the conversation I will loop from developmental neuroscience back to ML discussing the implications of a fascinating deep connection between developmental neuroscience and neural architecture search (NAS). Where does this leave us with regard to physiological causal reasoning from "black box" deep learning? Can we open that box and offer clinicians interpretable real-time decision support for managing pregnant patients? Last but not least, can insights from developmental neuroscience offer a new perspective on NAS and the foundational assumptions in ML modeling more generally?

Language models (LMs) like ChatGPT have achieved unprecedented levels of performance in natural language processing. One common characteristic of these models is that they segment text into a sequence of tokens from a fixed-size vocabulary, a step commonly referred to as tokenization.



In this talk, I will take a closer look at how linguistic properties of the tokenization impact how LMs process complex words (e.g., “superbizarre”). I will first give an overview of different forms of complex word processing in humans and AI systems. I will then present recent computational studies showing that the tokenization of LMs can lead to linguistically invalid segmentations (e.g., “superb-iza-rre”) that severely affect how LMs interpret complex words. Finally, I will discuss potential solutions of this problem.

Sentiment analysis is a task of authors' opinion extraction towards objects mentioned in text. The constant and rapid growth of information makes manual analysis literally impossible. Initial approaches originating from microblogging shot text analysis. Such texts mostly tend to convey a single opinion towards the product or service, and hence could be treated as-it-is in analysis. However, once it comes to in a way more larger documents, the provided analysis is expected to be granular. In this talk we cover the advances of machine-learning approaches in sentiment analysis of large mass-media documents. We provide both evolution of the task over time including a survey of task-oriented models starting from the conventional linear classification approaches to the applications findings of the recently announced ChatGPT model.

Meditation for new comers and old hands. Thirty minutes sitting meditation and 30 minutes talk on the underlying practice that is essential for meditation. The sole purpose of all Buddhist meditation is to relieve suffering: stress, anxiety, depression and all the other shades of emotional, psychological and mental suffering.

Meditation for new comers and old hands. Thirty minutes sitting meditation and 30 minutes talk on the underlying practice that is essential for meditation. The sole purpose of all Buddhist meditation is to relieve suffering: stress, anxiety, depression and all the other shades of emotional, psychological and mental suffering.

Meditation for new comers and old hands. Thirty minutes sitting meditation and 30 minutes talk on the underlying practice that is essential for meditation. The sole purpose of all Buddhist meditation is to relieve suffering: stress, anxiety, depression and all the other shades of emotional, psychological and mental suffering.

Meditation for new comers and old hands. Thirty minutes sitting meditation and 30 minutes talk on the underlying practice that is essential for meditation. The sole purpose of all Buddhist meditation is to relieve suffering: stress, anxiety, depression and all the other shades of emotional, psychological and mental suffering.

Meditation for new comers and old hands. Thirty minutes sitting meditation and 30 minutes talk on the underlying practice that is essential for meditation. The sole purpose of all Buddhist meditation is to relieve suffering: stress, anxiety, depression and all the other shades of emotional, psychological and mental suffering.

In the first Oxford Korean Popular Culture Symposium, various topics in Korean popular culture will be discussed, in particular, Korean film and K-pop, by two guest speakers from Paris along with three scholars at Oxford. Here are abstracts from guest speakers:

“Korean film industry between protectionism and globalization”

By Patrick Messerlin, Sciences Po Paris

This presentation shows that the Korean film industry has “outperformed” all the industries of the major film producers in almost all the conceivable dimensions, in a remarkably short period of time and—last but not least—with much less public support than the other countries and with an increased cultural diversity. This multidimensional outperformance is likely to come as a surprise to many, including those well versed in the film industry, because the Korean film industry has not attracted a lot of attention so far. This outperformance is important on its own, but its impact on our understanding of how film policies work is even more crucial. Until now, it has been taken as granted that no non-US film industry could face Hollywood dominance without a strong support of its government. The French film policy has been the best illustration of this belief, and its apparent success has led many countries to mimic it. The Korean film industry offers a living proof that facing successfully Hollywood dominance does not require huge barriers on foreign films and/or massive incentives to domestic films. In many respects, it is a “game changer.

“K-pop’s Rise to International Success: The Business Strategies of the Korean Music Industry facing Digitization”

By Jimmyn Parc, Sciences Po Paris and Seoul National University

Korean pop songs or K-pop has been widely popular around world. Understanding the key to its success can thus produce meaningful lessons which can be applied to the music industries of other countries for their own further take-off. In an era of rapid technological advancement, Korean companies understood the evolution that was taking place in the music industry and embraced it; from analogue to digital, from albums to songs, from possessing to accessing, from audio to visual, and from end products to promotional products. This adaptation has significantly enhanced the viability of K-pop in the global market.