Talks

Date Title Speaker
31/08/2015 - 10:00 to 10:30 Welcome and Highlights of BCBT summer school Paul Verschure - Anna Mura
31/08/2015 - 10:30 to 11:00 Week1 program: dealing with the Evo-Devo dilemma Tony Prescott
31/08/2015 - 11:30 to 12:30 Week1 program: dealing with the Evo-Devo dilemma Leah Krubtizer
01/09/2015 - 09:30 to 11:00 Edvard Moser: Grid cells and cortical maps for space Edvard Moser
01/09/2015 - 11:30 to 13:00 Bryan Kolb: Plasticity in the developing brain Bryan Kolb: Plasticity in the developing brain
02/09/2015 - 09:30 to 11:00 Barbara Finlay : Robust, plastic and scalable: developmental organizing principles of the vertebrate brain. Barbara Finlay
02/09/2015 - 11:30 to 13:00 Mark Blumberg : Developing the sensorimotor system in our sleep Mark Blumberg
03/09/2015 - 09:30 to 11:00 John Lisman : The neural systems for spatial localization and exploration: role of 10 identified cell types John Lisman
03/09/2015 - 11:30 to 13:00 Steve Noctor : Evolution and regulation of neural precursor cells in the developing vertebrate brain. Steve Noctor
04/09/2015 - 09:30 to 11:00 Benny Hochner : Embodied organization of the unique motor control of the octopus’s flexible and ‘strange’ body Benny Hochner
04/09/2015 - 11:30 to 13:00 Gregg Recanzone : Cortical plasticity throughout adulthood: Implications on the evolution of the nervous system at the ‘nanosecond’ scale. Gregg Recanzone
07/09/2015 - 09:30 to 11:00 Ranulfo Romo : Where and how in the cerebral cortex do single neurons process more than one sensory modality during perceptual judgments? Ranulfo Romo
07/09/2015 - 11:30 to 13:00 Narender Ramnani : Cerebellar contributions to instrumental learning Narender Ramnani
08/09/2015 - 09:30 to 11:00 Aldo Genovesio : Role of prefrontal cortex in decision making: across-task interference effects in a duration discrimination task and prediction of others choices in a social interactive task. Aldo Genovesio
08/09/2015 - 11:30 to 13:00 Paul Verschure: the DAC theory of consciousness
09/09/2015 - 09:30 to 11:00 Henry Kennedy : Hierarchical Processing in the Cortex Henry Kennedy
09/09/2015 - 11:30 to 13:00 Mathew E. Diamond: Unified framework for perception of stimulus intensity and perception of stimulus duration in humans and rats. Mathew E. Diamond
10/09/2015 - 09:30 to 11:00 Kate J Jeffrey : Neural encoding of complex space Kate J Jeffery
10/09/2015 - 11:30 to 13:00 Mariano Sigman : The construction of confidence Mariano Sigman