Brain and Cognitive Sciences Computational Tutorial Series
MIT graduate students and postdocs in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences run this ongoing tutorial series, started in 2015, aimed at researchers with some computational background who want tools used across neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Each session pairs a short lecture with an interactive practice segment, effectively office hours, where participants work through exercises and discuss how the method applies to their own research. Posted materials include lecture videos, slides, code, datasets, and background references for each topic. Organizers include Emily Mackevicius, Jenelle Feather, Nhat Le, Fernanda De La Torre Romo, and Greta Tuckute, with production support from the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. The series covers a rotating set of computational methods relevant to modeling intelligence, functioning less like a single fixed syllabus and more like an accumulating library of self-contained technical tutorials aimed at bridging experimentalists and computational researchers.