9th Annual Mind and Brain Idea Blitz
Center for Mind and Brain (267 Cousteau Pl, Davis)
September 27, 2019 from 4:00 to 5:45 PM
Please join us for the 9th Annual Center for Mind and Brain Idea Blitz. This event will feature 15-minute "big picture" idea talks from a variety of faculty, as well as a thank you ceremony for former CMB Director Steve Luck.
September 27, 2019 from 4:00 to 5:45 PM
Please join us for the 9th Annual Center for Mind and Brain Idea Blitz. This event will feature 15-minute "big picture" idea talks from a variety of faculty, as well as a thank you ceremony for former CMB Director Steve Luck.
- Yuko Munakata (Psychology and CMB)- “Why good things come to those who wait”
- Emily Morgan (Linguistics)- “The psycholinguistics of programming”
- Randy O’Reilly (Psychology and Computer Science, and CNS)- “The human brain is a self-programming computer”
- Rishidev (Rishi) Chaudhuri, (Mathematics and NPB)- “The brain is deliberately noisy, allowing it to efficiently probe and prune networks”
- Steve Luck (CMB, Psychology)- “Effects of attention on population representations of information in the human brain”
Neuroengineering Symposium: Functional Significance of Oscillatory Brain Activity and Closed-Loop Stimulation
Putah Creek Lodge (695 Putah Creek Lodge Drive)
May 09, 2019 from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Synchronized oscillatory brain activity has been proposed to play an important role in changing functional connectivity and therefore controlling information flow in the brain. Other proposed roles include, for example, which aspect of a memory is supposed to be retrieved. Testing these ideas experimentally is difficult, but closed-loop stimulation approaches seem promising. In addition to applications in basic neuroscience, closed-loop stimulation is also starting to play a role in clinical applications. This symposium will provide an overview over the current state of the field and discuss challenges and future directions.
Featured Speakers:
Registration is required. Lunch will be provided.
May 09, 2019 from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Synchronized oscillatory brain activity has been proposed to play an important role in changing functional connectivity and therefore controlling information flow in the brain. Other proposed roles include, for example, which aspect of a memory is supposed to be retrieved. Testing these ideas experimentally is difficult, but closed-loop stimulation approaches seem promising. In addition to applications in basic neuroscience, closed-loop stimulation is also starting to play a role in clinical applications. This symposium will provide an overview over the current state of the field and discuss challenges and future directions.
Featured Speakers:
- Stan Anderson (Johns Hopkins University)
- Jochen Ditterich (University of California, Davis)
- Eb Fetz (University of Washington, Seattle)
- Saskia Haegens (Columbia University)
- Beata Jarosiewicz (NeuroPace)
- Ueli Rutishauser (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
- Alik Widge (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
- Thilo Womelsdorf (Vanderbilt University)
Registration is required. Lunch will be provided.
Psychology Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Peter Hagoort
Multi-Purpose Room, Student Community Center
May 02, 2019, 4:00 PM
Language Beyond the Input Given: A Neurobiological Account
Dr. Peter Hagoort
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguisics
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Radboud University Nijmegen
Abstract:
The infrastructure of the human brain allows us to acquire a language without formal instruction in the first years of life. I will discuss the features that make our brain language-ready. Next to the neuro-architectural features I will discuss the functional aspects of language processing. A central and influential idea among researchers of language is that our language faculty is organized according to Fregean compositionality, which implies that the meaning of an utterance is a function of the meaning of its parts and of the syntactic rules by which these parts are combined. FMRI results and results from recordings of event related brain potentials will be presented that are inconsistent with this classical model of language interpretation. Our data support a model in which knowledge about the context and the world, knowledge about concomitant information from other modalities, and knowledge about the speaker are brought to bear immediately, by the same fast-acting brain system that combines the meanings of individual words into a message-level representation. The Memory, Unification and Control (MUC) model of language accounts for these data. Resting state connectivity data, and data from a large MEG study (N=204 participants) will be discussed, specifying the contributions of temporal and inferior frontal cortex. I will also discuss fMRI results that indicate the insufficiency of the Mirror Neuron Hypothesis to explain language understanding. Instead, understanding the message that the speaker wants to convey requires the contribution of the Theory of Mind network. I will sketch a picture of language processing from an embrained perspective. Overall, I will argue that a multiple network perspective is needed to account for the neurobiological underpinning of language to its full extent. Finally I will illustrate why it is hard to give a good presentation.
Reception begins at 3:30pm
Lecture begins at 4:10pm
There will also be a lunch at the 2203 SSH, Andrews Conference room 12:10-1:30pm, May 2nd to give trainees, students and postdocs the opportunity to get to know Dr.Hagroot. If you’d like to attend please RSVP by emailing ycevents@ucdavis.edu, please include any dietary restrictions in your email.
May 02, 2019, 4:00 PM
Language Beyond the Input Given: A Neurobiological Account
Dr. Peter Hagoort
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguisics
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Radboud University Nijmegen
Abstract:
The infrastructure of the human brain allows us to acquire a language without formal instruction in the first years of life. I will discuss the features that make our brain language-ready. Next to the neuro-architectural features I will discuss the functional aspects of language processing. A central and influential idea among researchers of language is that our language faculty is organized according to Fregean compositionality, which implies that the meaning of an utterance is a function of the meaning of its parts and of the syntactic rules by which these parts are combined. FMRI results and results from recordings of event related brain potentials will be presented that are inconsistent with this classical model of language interpretation. Our data support a model in which knowledge about the context and the world, knowledge about concomitant information from other modalities, and knowledge about the speaker are brought to bear immediately, by the same fast-acting brain system that combines the meanings of individual words into a message-level representation. The Memory, Unification and Control (MUC) model of language accounts for these data. Resting state connectivity data, and data from a large MEG study (N=204 participants) will be discussed, specifying the contributions of temporal and inferior frontal cortex. I will also discuss fMRI results that indicate the insufficiency of the Mirror Neuron Hypothesis to explain language understanding. Instead, understanding the message that the speaker wants to convey requires the contribution of the Theory of Mind network. I will sketch a picture of language processing from an embrained perspective. Overall, I will argue that a multiple network perspective is needed to account for the neurobiological underpinning of language to its full extent. Finally I will illustrate why it is hard to give a good presentation.
Reception begins at 3:30pm
Lecture begins at 4:10pm
There will also be a lunch at the 2203 SSH, Andrews Conference room 12:10-1:30pm, May 2nd to give trainees, students and postdocs the opportunity to get to know Dr.Hagroot. If you’d like to attend please RSVP by emailing ycevents@ucdavis.edu, please include any dietary restrictions in your email.
Northern California Consciousness Conference 2019
Center for Mind and Brain (267 Cousteau Place), Conference Room
March 15, 2019 from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The fifth annual Northern California Consciousness conference will be hosted at the Center for Mind and Brain. This one-day mini conference is designed to provide scholars in Northern California with an opportunity to present their work and exchange ideas on the scientific approach to the understanding of consciousness. This year will feature a keynote debate by Melanie Boly & Brian Odegaard, titled 'Is the frontal cortex necessary for conscious perception? '.
March 15, 2019 from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The fifth annual Northern California Consciousness conference will be hosted at the Center for Mind and Brain. This one-day mini conference is designed to provide scholars in Northern California with an opportunity to present their work and exchange ideas on the scientific approach to the understanding of consciousness. This year will feature a keynote debate by Melanie Boly & Brian Odegaard, titled 'Is the frontal cortex necessary for conscious perception? '.
UC Davis Center for Vision Science Annual Symposium 2019
Genome and Biomedical Sciences Auditorium
January 11, 2019 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The primary goal of the Center for Vision Sciences (CVS) is to foster collaborative interactions between and among clinical and basic scientists from across the campus to advance our understanding of the visual system, and how to use that knowledge to improve clinical care. This years annual symposium features a talk from Dr. John Henderson, a faculty in both the CVS and MAP programs. Please visit their website to see a copy of their flyer and schedule.
January 11, 2019 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The primary goal of the Center for Vision Sciences (CVS) is to foster collaborative interactions between and among clinical and basic scientists from across the campus to advance our understanding of the visual system, and how to use that knowledge to improve clinical care. This years annual symposium features a talk from Dr. John Henderson, a faculty in both the CVS and MAP programs. Please visit their website to see a copy of their flyer and schedule.
Bay Area Memory Meeting 2018
UC Davis Center for Neuroscience (1544 Newton Ct.)
August 14, 2018
The Bay Area Memory Meeting is a long standing tradition among California memory researchers. We are excited to announce that the meeting is back after a brief hiatus, and will be hosted this year at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience. The objectives of this years meeting are to:
(1) Foster communication and an exchange of ideas between scientists in the bay area who study memory and cognitive control, &
(2) Provide a forum in which students and postdocs can present their research and build relationships with faculty and peers beyond their local institution.
As with prior years, BAMM is expected to include approximately 35 presentations from 15+ labs. All sessions are intended to provide an engaging environment in which students and postdocs can present their work. The content of the presentations is flexible, and can cover any studies relevant to the function and organization of learning, memory, and neural plasticity. Presentations will be 10 minutes in length.
Registration is open through August 1st. A schedule of talks will be posted as soon as one is available.
August 14, 2018
The Bay Area Memory Meeting is a long standing tradition among California memory researchers. We are excited to announce that the meeting is back after a brief hiatus, and will be hosted this year at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience. The objectives of this years meeting are to:
(1) Foster communication and an exchange of ideas between scientists in the bay area who study memory and cognitive control, &
(2) Provide a forum in which students and postdocs can present their research and build relationships with faculty and peers beyond their local institution.
As with prior years, BAMM is expected to include approximately 35 presentations from 15+ labs. All sessions are intended to provide an engaging environment in which students and postdocs can present their work. The content of the presentations is flexible, and can cover any studies relevant to the function and organization of learning, memory, and neural plasticity. Presentations will be 10 minutes in length.
Registration is open through August 1st. A schedule of talks will be posted as soon as one is available.
Annual Multidisciplinary University Initiative (MURI) Meeting
UC Davis Center for Neuroscience (1544 Newton Ct.)
August 21 - all day
The Multidisciplinary University Initiative (MURI), sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, funds efforts involving teams of researchers investigating high priority topics and opportunities that intersect more than one traditional technical discipline. UC Davis researcher, Charan Ranganath, is part of a MURI team working on a project titled Event Representation and Episodic Memory. The intent of this MURI is to address limitations of existing episodic memory models, which do not account for the processing of long and complex event sequences, and to enable more comprehensive computational cognitive and neurocognitive models of episodic memory, including episode formation, storage, retrieval, and use. Specifically, this MURI seeks to:
(1) Identify the computational principles revealed in the cognitive and neuroscience study of memory that enable automatic extraction of episodes from event sequences, including information about time, spatial relations, causality and intentions of relevant actors, and enable the retrieval of linked events.
(2) Develop algorithms and cognitive architectures that embody the capability for episode extraction and analysis from long streams of visual and auditory data from complex scenes.
This years annual MURI Progress Meeting will be held at UC Davis, and will include a day open to the public on August 21st. Registration is free, but space is limited.
August 21 - all day
The Multidisciplinary University Initiative (MURI), sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, funds efforts involving teams of researchers investigating high priority topics and opportunities that intersect more than one traditional technical discipline. UC Davis researcher, Charan Ranganath, is part of a MURI team working on a project titled Event Representation and Episodic Memory. The intent of this MURI is to address limitations of existing episodic memory models, which do not account for the processing of long and complex event sequences, and to enable more comprehensive computational cognitive and neurocognitive models of episodic memory, including episode formation, storage, retrieval, and use. Specifically, this MURI seeks to:
(1) Identify the computational principles revealed in the cognitive and neuroscience study of memory that enable automatic extraction of episodes from event sequences, including information about time, spatial relations, causality and intentions of relevant actors, and enable the retrieval of linked events.
(2) Develop algorithms and cognitive architectures that embody the capability for episode extraction and analysis from long streams of visual and auditory data from complex scenes.
This years annual MURI Progress Meeting will be held at UC Davis, and will include a day open to the public on August 21st. Registration is free, but space is limited.
Perspectives in Neuroscience: Carol Barnes Ph.D.
Center for Neuroscience (1544 Newton Court, Davis)
May 24, 2018 12:10 - 1:00
Please join us for the next talk in the 2017 - 2018 Perspectives in Neuroscience series, featuring Dr. Carol Barnes, Regents Professor of Psychology, Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. Dr. Barnes is a former president of the Society for Neuroscience, and active researcher collaborator at the UC Davis Primate Center. Her talk will be titled "Age-related Changes in Memory Across Species: Brain Circuit Specificity." A reception will be available at 11:30; if you are interested in attending, please contact Najwa Marrush (nmmarrush@ucdavis.edu).
May 24, 2018 12:10 - 1:00
Please join us for the next talk in the 2017 - 2018 Perspectives in Neuroscience series, featuring Dr. Carol Barnes, Regents Professor of Psychology, Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. Dr. Barnes is a former president of the Society for Neuroscience, and active researcher collaborator at the UC Davis Primate Center. Her talk will be titled "Age-related Changes in Memory Across Species: Brain Circuit Specificity." A reception will be available at 11:30; if you are interested in attending, please contact Najwa Marrush (nmmarrush@ucdavis.edu).
UC Davis Annual Psychology Conference
Center for Mind and Brain (267 Cousteau Place, Davis)
May 04, 2018 - all day
The Annual Psychology Conference, hosted by the psychology student association, will feature keynote speaker John Capitanio, research scientist at UC Davis. Dr Capitanio os also the Unit Leader of the Neuroscience and Behavioral Unit at the California National Primate Research Center. The conference will also include a postdoc and faculty symposium, followed by a poster session competition with wine and cheese reception. A complete schedule of the conference can be accessed here.
May 04, 2018 - all day
The Annual Psychology Conference, hosted by the psychology student association, will feature keynote speaker John Capitanio, research scientist at UC Davis. Dr Capitanio os also the Unit Leader of the Neuroscience and Behavioral Unit at the California National Primate Research Center. The conference will also include a postdoc and faculty symposium, followed by a poster session competition with wine and cheese reception. A complete schedule of the conference can be accessed here.
UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference
ARC Pavilion and Wellman Hall (UC Davis main campus)
April 27- 28, 2018
This year marks the 29th Annual UC Davis Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference. Over 700 undergraduates across all majors and disciplines will be presenting poster presentations, oral presentations and art, design and creative activity exhibits! Students will present their research projects to faculty, staff and other conference participants in either an oral or poster format. The oral presentation will allow students to give a 15-minute presentation of their topic and includes time for questions. Each oral session will be moderated by a faculty member. In the poster session, students will have designed a visual poster representing their research and will be presenting their work to individual conference participants over a 60 minute session. Check out the official page here!
April 27- 28, 2018
This year marks the 29th Annual UC Davis Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference. Over 700 undergraduates across all majors and disciplines will be presenting poster presentations, oral presentations and art, design and creative activity exhibits! Students will present their research projects to faculty, staff and other conference participants in either an oral or poster format. The oral presentation will allow students to give a 15-minute presentation of their topic and includes time for questions. Each oral session will be moderated by a faculty member. In the poster session, students will have designed a visual poster representing their research and will be presenting their work to individual conference participants over a 60 minute session. Check out the official page here!
How Children Remember: New Approaches for New Discoveries
Center for Mind and Brain (267 Coustea Place, Davis)
April 23, 2018 - all day
Organized by our own Dr. Simona Ghetti, the first official Memory and Plasticity Workshop will be hosted by the Center for Mind and Brain. This all day summit features an all-star cast of experts in developmental cognitive neuroscience. The summit will highlight a groundbreaking new interactive format focused on discussion, where presenters will give brief background on their research, followed by 3 big picture questions or research challenges for discussion. The majority time for each presenter will focus on group discussion of these big picture questions, in hopes of giving researchers a fresh new perspective of looking at their research specific challenges. Please see below for a rough schedule for the day.
April 23, 2018 - all day
Organized by our own Dr. Simona Ghetti, the first official Memory and Plasticity Workshop will be hosted by the Center for Mind and Brain. This all day summit features an all-star cast of experts in developmental cognitive neuroscience. The summit will highlight a groundbreaking new interactive format focused on discussion, where presenters will give brief background on their research, followed by 3 big picture questions or research challenges for discussion. The majority time for each presenter will focus on group discussion of these big picture questions, in hopes of giving researchers a fresh new perspective of looking at their research specific challenges. Please see below for a rough schedule for the day.
8:45 Welcome!
Steven Luck, Director Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis
9:00 Episodic Memory in Early Childhood: Meaningful Age-related and Individual Differences
Tracy Riggins, University of Maryland
9:45 Imaging the Emergence of Episodic Memory
Simona Ghetti, University of California, Davis
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 A “do it yourself” Guide to Building a Knowledge Base
Patricia Bauer, Emory University
11:45 Visual Paired Comparison and Infant Memory: What Does it Measure Anyway?
Lisa Oakes, University of California, Davis
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Hippocampal and Prefrontal Contributions to Memory Integration and Separation during Development
Alison Preston, University of Texas, Austin
2:15 Dissecting Episodic Memory: How Do we Define its Component Processes?
Nora Newcombe, Temple University
3:00 Coffee break
3:30 Prefrontal Cortex Contributions to the Development of Memory Formation
Noa Ofen, Wayne State University
4:15 Final Discussion (Or Nick Turk-Brown, Princeton University participating remotely)
Steven Luck, Director Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis
9:00 Episodic Memory in Early Childhood: Meaningful Age-related and Individual Differences
Tracy Riggins, University of Maryland
9:45 Imaging the Emergence of Episodic Memory
Simona Ghetti, University of California, Davis
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 A “do it yourself” Guide to Building a Knowledge Base
Patricia Bauer, Emory University
11:45 Visual Paired Comparison and Infant Memory: What Does it Measure Anyway?
Lisa Oakes, University of California, Davis
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Hippocampal and Prefrontal Contributions to Memory Integration and Separation during Development
Alison Preston, University of Texas, Austin
2:15 Dissecting Episodic Memory: How Do we Define its Component Processes?
Nora Newcombe, Temple University
3:00 Coffee break
3:30 Prefrontal Cortex Contributions to the Development of Memory Formation
Noa Ofen, Wayne State University
4:15 Final Discussion (Or Nick Turk-Brown, Princeton University participating remotely)
