Bodian Seminar: Betsy Quinlan

Elizabeth Quinlan, Ph.D.Professor and Chair, Department of NeuroscienceHerman and Rubinstein Chair of NeuroscienceUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison TBD Faculty Host: Hey-Kyoung Lee

Bodian Seminar: Vinny Costa

Vincent Costa, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Division of NeuroscienceOregon National Primate Research CenterOregon Health & Science University Disynaptic motivational circuits regulate decisions to explore or exploit Motivational circuits facilitate reinforcement learning and […]

Bodian Seminar: Hiroyuki Kato

Hiroyuki Kato, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorDepartment of Psychiatry & Neuroscience CenterUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill Sensory Integration along the Auditory Cortical Hierarchy Our brain’s ability to parse overlapping sounds and reconstruct […]

Bodian Seminar: Stefan Mihalas

Stefan Mihalas, Ph.D.InvestigatorAllen Institute for Brain Science Computing with complex components: How heterogeneous, nonstationary and noisy neurons and synapses contribute to the brain’s computational power While artificial neural networks have […]

Special Seminar: Daniel Tso

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 adult […]

Bodian Seminar: Giorgio Ascoli

Giorgio Ascoli, Ph.D.Distinguished University Professor, Bioengineering Department and Neuroscience ProgramFounding Director, Center for Neural Informatics, Structure, & PlasticityKrasnow Institute for Advanced StudyGeorge Mason University From Neuron Classification to Spiking Neural […]

Special Seminar – Leo Chi U Seak, Ph.D.

Value-based cognition: reward, computation, learning and problem-solving Many of our daily decisions are related to value. Choosing between food options, doingmathematic calculations, and learning something new, all of these procedures […]

Bodian Seminar: Reza Shadmehr

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 a […]

Bodian Seminar: Thorsten Kahnt

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 decision […]

Bodian Seminar: Robbe Goris

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 infer […]

Bodian Seminar: Lydia Hopper, Ph.D.

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 of […]

Bodian Seminar: Daniel Butts

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 is […]