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15th Annual UWaterloo Brain Day:
Live and In-person
The University of Waterloo's Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience supports the development of robust explanatory theories of mind and brain through education and research. In pursuit of that goal, the CTN has invited four internationally renowned speakers to present generally accessible lectures from each of the perspectives of neuroscience, computational neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy on the ideas of mind, brain, theories, and models.
April 11th, 2023
Coffee and light breakfast
8:30 am, E7 event space, room 2472
Welcoming Remarks
9:00am, E7, room 3353
Rafal Bogacz
Inferring Neural Activity Before Plasticity: A Foundation for Learning Beyond Backpropagation
9:15 am - 10:30 am
Serife Tekin
Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: A Case Study of Olfactory-Triggered Trauma
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Natasha Rajah
The Importance of Considering Biological Sex & Diversity in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Dora Angelaki
Views on Naturalistic Tasks in Neuroscience: Flexible Neural Coding During Visually Guided Navigation
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Reception
4:15 pm, E7 event Space, room 2472
Past brain day lecturers include: Jacqueline Gottlieb, Viktor Jirsa, Frances Egan, Lila Davachi, John Maunsell, Michael Arbib, Vinod Menon, William Seager, Marisa Carrasco, Konrad Kording, James DiCarlo, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Schacter, Paul Glimcher, David van Essen, Patricia Churchland, William Bechtel, Geoff Hinton, Jack Gallant, Ned Block, Carl Craver, Terry Sejnowski, Keith Holyoak, Peter Strick, Jay McLelland, Tony Movshon, Jonathan Cohen, Larry Barsalou, Sebastien Seung, Mel Goodale, John Hopfield, Jesse Prinz, David Sheinberg, Gyorgy Buzsaki, Ian Gold, Michael Tarr, and Michael Hasselmo.
Sponsored by:
University of Waterloo Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN), and Office of Research, University of Waterloo.
