BMMI-relevant events (Week 5/8/1
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--Brains
1. 5/8/17
1.1 Pierce Seminar: Tor Wager, "Neuroimaging of pain and distress: From biomarkers to brain representation"
Tor D. Wager, Ph.D., professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Institute for Cognitive Science, The University of Colorado, Boulder.
1.2 Neuroscience Seminar: Ed Lein, "Exploring the Cellular and Circuit Architecture of Human Neocortex"
Ed Lein, PhD. Investigator, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Host, Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD and the Department of Neuroscience
1.3 Gruber Lecture: David Hillis, "The Evolution of Animal Neural Systems"
David Hillis, Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor in Natural Sciences, Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas, Austin.
1.4 BSTP Seminar: Youngsun Cho, "The Impact of Rewards on Spatial Working Memory - Findings from Behavior, fMRI, and Patients with Schizophrenia"
Youngsun Theresa Cho, MD/PhD
Anticevic Lab, Yale Psychiatry
2. 5/9/17
2.1 Neuroscience Clinical Lunch - Bipolar Disorder
3. 5/10/17
3.1 Shepherd Lecture: Bertil Hille, "GPCRs, Phosphoinositide Lipids, and Ion Channels Control Membrane Excitability"
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4. 5/11/17
4.1 Swartz Seminar: Stefano Fusi, "Distributed coding of position in the hippocampus"
BMMI-relevant events (Week 5/8/17)
Host: Daeyeol Lee
The complexity of real world behavior cannot be reduced to a simple mapping between a sensory stimulus and a motor response. Indeed the same stimulus should sometimes lead to different behaviors depending on the situation, the intention of the subject, and the rules imposed by the task to be performed. In many complex tasks we need to go through a series of different inner mental states each representing a particular disposition to behavior. Our group investigates the neural mechanisms which underlie the formation of rule representations (learning) and their expression. In particular we are developing a model of a neural network which encodes the inner mental states as attractor of the neural dynamics. Moreover we study the theory of synaptic mechanisms leading to the abstraction of the rules (learning and memory). In collaboration with experimentalists from different fields we test our ideas on real biological brains.
Other
The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks
Emotion, cognition, and mental state representation in amygdala and prefrontal cortex
Energy-efficient neuromorphic classifiers
4.2 C&MP Seminar: Mala Murthy, "Neural mechanisms for dynamic acoustic communication in flies"
5. 5/12/17 The James D. Prokop Award In Neurosurgery Lecture: “Functional dissection of human speech cortex, and beyond”
Edward F Chang, MD Professor In Residence, Step 1. Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine.
