Neural Mechanisms Underlying Adult Ocular Dominance Plasticity: Hebbian or Homeostatic? @ Daniel Tso, PhDAssociate Professor of Neurosurgery,Neuroscience and Physiology,& Ophthalmology and Visual SciencesSUNY Upstate Medical UniversitySyracuse, NY Recent studies in […]

@ Reza Shadmehr, Ph.D.Professor, Dept of Biomedical EngineeringJohns Hopkins University A vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum: Neurons in the brain are active not just during execution of […]

@ Thorsten Kahnt, Ph.D.Chief, Learning and Decision-Making UnitNational Institute on Drug Abuse Orbitofrontal contributions to outcome-guided behavior Research across species has shown that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is critical for […]

@ Robbe Goris, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology University of Texas at Austin Title: Inference and introspection in the primate visual system To accomplish goals, humans and other animals must […]

@ Lydia Hopper, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Comparative PathobiologyJohns Hopkins School of Medicine Title: Copy cats and aping apes: How social learning aids knowledge acquisition and the transmission […]

@ Daniel Butts, Ph.D.Professor, Dept of BiologyThe University of Maryland Cortical processing of high acuity vision When we want to see something, we look at it. Our highest acuity vision […]

@ Michael Yassa, Ph.D.Associate Dean, Professor, & DirectorUniversity of California, Irvine Episodic Memory, Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Memory is the sum of who we are. We strive to understand how brains […]

@ Peter Rudebeck, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Neuroscience and PsychiatryIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Prefrontal and limbic mechanisms of reward-guided decision-making and affect How do we decide what to […]

@ Greg DeAngelis, Ph.D.Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering School or Arts and Sciences: Brain and Cognitive SciencesUniversity of Rochester How the brain computes object motion […]