2026 School on Analytical Connectionism · Gothenburg · Scroll to read
About these Chris Summerfield lecture notes
These notes compare how humans and deep neural networks learn from ordered curricula. They focus on critical periods, loss of plasticity, and the conditions that let a learner remain flexible as training progresses.
- Curriculum learning and structured training
- Critical periods and loss of plasticity
- Off-manifold learning in biological networks
- Dimensionality changes during learning
- Ageing, cognitive flexibility, and lottery tickets
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