2013
All events, 2013
The Simultaneous Type/Serial Token Model of temporal attention and working memory encoding, with applications in brain-computer interaction and lie detection
Lecture
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Hour: 12:30
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
The Simultaneous Type/Serial Token Model of temporal attention and working memory encoding, with applications in brain-computer interaction and lie detection
Prof. Howard Bowman
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
The Simultaneous Type/ Serial Token (STST) model [Bowman & Wyble, 2007] was developed as a theory of how attention is deployed through time and how working memory representations are formed. It provides a neural explanation of perceptual phenomena, particularly those observed using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), e.g. attentional blink, repetition blindness, temporal conjunction errors and perceptual episodes, e.g. see [Wyble et al, 2011]. Its activation dynamics have also been tied to the P3 event related potential component [Craston et al, 2009], which has been argued to be an electrophysiological correlate of conscious perception. I will describe the STST model and its behavioural and electrophysiological verification. Finally, I will highlight applications of these RSVP-P3 effects in brain computer interaction and lie detection. I will also discuss what I consider to be the motivation for computational modelling.
[Bowman and Wyble, 2007] The simultaneous type, serial token model of temporal attention and working memory. H. Bowman and B. Wyble. Psychological Review, 114(1):182-196, January 2007.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2007/2419/index.html
[Wyble et al, 2011] Attentional episodes in visual perception. B.Wyble, M.Potter, H. Bowman, and M.Nieuwenstein. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 140(3):182-196, August 2011.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2011/3205/index.html
[Craston et al, 2009] The attentional blink reveals serial working memory
encoding: Evidence from virtual & human event-related potentials. Patrick Craston, Brad Wyble, Srivas Chennu, and Howard Bowman. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(3):182-196, March 2009.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2009/2715/index.html
Defining the role for prefrontal cortex in memory-guided sensory decision-making
Lecture
Monday, December 30, 2013
Hour: 15:00
Location:
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research
Defining the role for prefrontal cortex in memory-guided sensory decision-making
Prof. Tatiana Pasternak
Dept of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Rochester
: I will discuss how sensory information is represented and utilized in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during memory for visual motion tasks. During such tasks, monkeys compare either directions or speeds of two sequential motion stimuli separated by a delay and report whether a current stimulus is the same or different from another held in working memory. We analyzed spiking activity in DLPFC during such tasks, identifying putative local interneurons and putative pyramidal projection neurons, a likely source of top-down influences DLPFC may be exerting on upstream sensory neurons. This analysis revealed that neurons of both types are selective for the speed and the direction of motion, with tuning reminiscent of that recorded in the motion processing area MT. Throughout the memory delay, many DLPFC neurons showed anticipatory rate modulations as well as transient periods of activity reflecting the preceding stimulus, and this activity was represented primarily by the putative pyramidal neurons. During the comparison stimulus, responses of both cell types showed modulation by the remembered stimulus and their activity was highly predictive of the animals’ behavioral report. The similarity in the way DLPFC neurons represent different sensory dimensions provide evidence for the existence of generalized mechanisms in the DLPFC sub-serving all stages of sensory working memory tasks, shedding light on top-down influences this region may be providing to the upstream sensory neurons during such tasks.
Challenges and Debates at the Frontiers of Brain&Cognition
Conference
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Hour: 08:00 - 17:00
Location:
The David Lopatie Conference Centre
Challenges and Debates at the Frontiers of Brain&Cognition
How Different Forms of Memory Guide Decisions and Actions
Lecture
Monday, December 23, 2013
Hour: 14:30
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
How Different Forms of Memory Guide Decisions and Actions
Prof. Daphna Shohamy
Dept of Psychology
Columbia University, NY
: A longstanding question at the nexus of cognition and neuroscience concerns the distribution of the labor of learning across different brain systems: what are the different ways in which the brain learns? Recent research has focused on the role of the striatum and midbrain dopamine regions in habitual learning of stimulus-reward associations. However, emerging evidence suggests that the hippocampus – widely known for its role in building flexible memories – is also modulated by reward and innervated by dopamine. This raises new hypotheses about the role of the hippocampus in learning, the unique contributions of the hippocampus and the striatum, and the nature of the relationship between them. I will present studies that address these hypotheses using an integrative approach that combines functional imaging (fMRI) in healthy individuals with studies of learning in patients with selective damage to the striatum or the hippocampus. Converging data from these approaches suggests that both the striatum and the hippocampus contribute to learning, with distinct implications for how learned information guides decisions.
An innovative hybrid of White Light based spinning disk technology and structured illumination
Lecture
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Hour: 09:30
Location:
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research
An innovative hybrid of White Light based spinning disk technology and structured illumination
Bruno Combettes, PhD
Andor Microscopy Specialist
Andor Technologies
During the seminar we will introduce latest developments in white light Spinning disk confocal technique as well as in active illumination. We will first demonstrate how structured light based spinning disk is giving a high resolution and high confocality solution. Images and movies of various biological samples will be presented.
We will also describe the recent developments in active illumination of which can be easily installed on each existing microscope and can be used in Photo-stimulation, uncaging, Ablation etc. We will present images and movies of typical Optogenetics experiments using the new DMD based Mosaic 3.
Link to systems:
Andor Revolution DSD: http://www.andor.com/microscopy-systems/revolution-dsd
Active Illumination: http://www.andor.com/microscopy-systems/active-illumination
The fast and the slow: Neuronal oscillators, feedback, and control in the vibrissa system
Lecture
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Hour: 12:30
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
The fast and the slow: Neuronal oscillators, feedback, and control in the vibrissa system
Prof. David Kleinfeld
Departments of Physics and Neurobiology
University of California at San Diego
Prof. Kleinfeld will present recent work on the control of rhythmic whisking in rodents.
These studies bear on the apparent role of breathing as a master clock that drives
orofacial actions, establishes a hierarchy of control of orofacial behaviors, and may
temporally bind different orofacial inputs.
Adaptive Immunity at the Choroid Plexus Shapes Brain Function Throughout Life
Lecture
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Hour: 11:00
Location:
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research
Adaptive Immunity at the Choroid Plexus Shapes Brain Function Throughout Life
Aleksandra Deczkowska
MSc Student, Prof. Michal Schwartz Group
Department of Neurobiology
Cortical Inhibition, Excitation and Cognitive Enhancement
Lecture
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Hour: 13:00
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
Cortical Inhibition, Excitation and Cognitive Enhancement
Dr. Roi Cohen Kadosh
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford, UK
Academic achievements such as math and reading are key predictors for future success at school, university, and later in life. Additionally, failure in these critical capacities negatively impacts the welfare of society as a whole. Current understanding of the link between high-level cognition, such as math and reading, and the brain has been primarily restricted to understanding the relationship between brain structure or function. At the same time a substantial body of animal and clinical research showing that cortical inhibition and excitation at the molecular or cellular levels play a critical role in efficient information transfer in the brain. It has further been suggested that cortical inhibition and excitation affects cognition in humans. I will present several studies that show how cortical inhibition and excitation are linked to high-level cognitive abilities in the child and adult human brain, and specifically how we can exogenously modulate cortical inhibition and excitation to optimise brain functions and improve cognition in typical and atypical populations. Such a multidisciplinary approach has the potential to bridge the separated strands of current research in psychology and education, system and molecular neuroscience, as well as animal models.
TRP channels: what are they and why are they important for understanding neuronal functions
Lecture
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Hour: 12:30
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
TRP channels: what are they and why are they important for understanding neuronal functions
Prof. Baruch Minke
Depts of Medical Neurobiology, the Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels constitute a large superfamily of polymodal channel proteins with diverse roles in many transduction and sensory pathways. These channels participate in most sensory modalities (e.g. vision, taste, temperature, pain, pheromone detection) and they either open directly in response to ligands or physical stimuli (e.g. temperature, osmotic pressure, or noxious substances) or, indirectly, downstream of a signal transduction cascade. TRP channels form an evolutionary conserved novel cation channel family consisting of seven subfamilies, which include nearly 30 human members. The founding member of this family was found in Drosophila and was designated TRP by Minke. TRP channels are classified into seven related subfamilies designated TRPC (Canonical or classical), TRPM (Melastatin), TRPN (NompC), TRPV (Vanilloid receptor), TRPA (ANKTM1), TRPP (Polycystin) and TRPML (Mucolipin). Our studies in Drosophila shed new light on the properties of the TRP channels by showing that a constitutive ATP-dependent process is required to keep these channels closed in the dark, a requirement that would make them sensitive to metabolic stress. Since mammalian TRP channels are heavily expressed in the brain, neuronal damage due to ischemia may involves activation of TRP channels.
Dendritic Computation
Lecture
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Hour: 17:00
Location:
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research
Dendritic Computation
Prof. Michael Hausser
The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
University College London
The computational power of single neurons has long been predicted using modelling approaches, but actual experimental examples of how neurons, and in particular their dendrites, can solve computational problems are rare. I will describe experiments using 2-photon glutamate uncaging in vitro, combined with in vivo 2-photon imaging and patch-clamp recording that demonstrate how active dendrites contribute to shaping canonical cortical computations.
Pages
2013
All events, 2013
The Simultaneous Type/Serial Token Model of temporal attention and working memory encoding, with applications in brain-computer interaction and lie detection
Lecture
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Hour: 12:30
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
The Simultaneous Type/Serial Token Model of temporal attention and working memory encoding, with applications in brain-computer interaction and lie detection
Prof. Howard Bowman
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
The Simultaneous Type/ Serial Token (STST) model [Bowman & Wyble, 2007] was developed as a theory of how attention is deployed through time and how working memory representations are formed. It provides a neural explanation of perceptual phenomena, particularly those observed using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), e.g. attentional blink, repetition blindness, temporal conjunction errors and perceptual episodes, e.g. see [Wyble et al, 2011]. Its activation dynamics have also been tied to the P3 event related potential component [Craston et al, 2009], which has been argued to be an electrophysiological correlate of conscious perception. I will describe the STST model and its behavioural and electrophysiological verification. Finally, I will highlight applications of these RSVP-P3 effects in brain computer interaction and lie detection. I will also discuss what I consider to be the motivation for computational modelling.
[Bowman and Wyble, 2007] The simultaneous type, serial token model of temporal attention and working memory. H. Bowman and B. Wyble. Psychological Review, 114(1):182-196, January 2007.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2007/2419/index.html
[Wyble et al, 2011] Attentional episodes in visual perception. B.Wyble, M.Potter, H. Bowman, and M.Nieuwenstein. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 140(3):182-196, August 2011.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2011/3205/index.html
[Craston et al, 2009] The attentional blink reveals serial working memory
encoding: Evidence from virtual & human event-related potentials. Patrick Craston, Brad Wyble, Srivas Chennu, and Howard Bowman. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(3):182-196, March 2009.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2009/2715/index.html
Defining the role for prefrontal cortex in memory-guided sensory decision-making
Lecture
Monday, December 30, 2013
Hour: 15:00
Location:
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research
Defining the role for prefrontal cortex in memory-guided sensory decision-making
Prof. Tatiana Pasternak
Dept of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Rochester
: I will discuss how sensory information is represented and utilized in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during memory for visual motion tasks. During such tasks, monkeys compare either directions or speeds of two sequential motion stimuli separated by a delay and report whether a current stimulus is the same or different from another held in working memory. We analyzed spiking activity in DLPFC during such tasks, identifying putative local interneurons and putative pyramidal projection neurons, a likely source of top-down influences DLPFC may be exerting on upstream sensory neurons. This analysis revealed that neurons of both types are selective for the speed and the direction of motion, with tuning reminiscent of that recorded in the motion processing area MT. Throughout the memory delay, many DLPFC neurons showed anticipatory rate modulations as well as transient periods of activity reflecting the preceding stimulus, and this activity was represented primarily by the putative pyramidal neurons. During the comparison stimulus, responses of both cell types showed modulation by the remembered stimulus and their activity was highly predictive of the animals’ behavioral report. The similarity in the way DLPFC neurons represent different sensory dimensions provide evidence for the existence of generalized mechanisms in the DLPFC sub-serving all stages of sensory working memory tasks, shedding light on top-down influences this region may be providing to the upstream sensory neurons during such tasks.
How Different Forms of Memory Guide Decisions and Actions
Lecture
Monday, December 23, 2013
Hour: 14:30
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
How Different Forms of Memory Guide Decisions and Actions
Prof. Daphna Shohamy
Dept of Psychology
Columbia University, NY
: A longstanding question at the nexus of cognition and neuroscience concerns the distribution of the labor of learning across different brain systems: what are the different ways in which the brain learns? Recent research has focused on the role of the striatum and midbrain dopamine regions in habitual learning of stimulus-reward associations. However, emerging evidence suggests that the hippocampus – widely known for its role in building flexible memories – is also modulated by reward and innervated by dopamine. This raises new hypotheses about the role of the hippocampus in learning, the unique contributions of the hippocampus and the striatum, and the nature of the relationship between them. I will present studies that address these hypotheses using an integrative approach that combines functional imaging (fMRI) in healthy individuals with studies of learning in patients with selective damage to the striatum or the hippocampus. Converging data from these approaches suggests that both the striatum and the hippocampus contribute to learning, with distinct implications for how learned information guides decisions.
An innovative hybrid of White Light based spinning disk technology and structured illumination
Lecture
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Hour: 09:30
Location:
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research
An innovative hybrid of White Light based spinning disk technology and structured illumination
Bruno Combettes, PhD
Andor Microscopy Specialist
Andor Technologies
During the seminar we will introduce latest developments in white light Spinning disk confocal technique as well as in active illumination. We will first demonstrate how structured light based spinning disk is giving a high resolution and high confocality solution. Images and movies of various biological samples will be presented.
We will also describe the recent developments in active illumination of which can be easily installed on each existing microscope and can be used in Photo-stimulation, uncaging, Ablation etc. We will present images and movies of typical Optogenetics experiments using the new DMD based Mosaic 3.
Link to systems:
Andor Revolution DSD: http://www.andor.com/microscopy-systems/revolution-dsd
Active Illumination: http://www.andor.com/microscopy-systems/active-illumination
The fast and the slow: Neuronal oscillators, feedback, and control in the vibrissa system
Lecture
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Hour: 12:30
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
The fast and the slow: Neuronal oscillators, feedback, and control in the vibrissa system
Prof. David Kleinfeld
Departments of Physics and Neurobiology
University of California at San Diego
Prof. Kleinfeld will present recent work on the control of rhythmic whisking in rodents.
These studies bear on the apparent role of breathing as a master clock that drives
orofacial actions, establishes a hierarchy of control of orofacial behaviors, and may
temporally bind different orofacial inputs.
Adaptive Immunity at the Choroid Plexus Shapes Brain Function Throughout Life
Lecture
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Hour: 11:00
Location:
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research
Adaptive Immunity at the Choroid Plexus Shapes Brain Function Throughout Life
Aleksandra Deczkowska
MSc Student, Prof. Michal Schwartz Group
Department of Neurobiology
Cortical Inhibition, Excitation and Cognitive Enhancement
Lecture
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Hour: 13:00
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
Cortical Inhibition, Excitation and Cognitive Enhancement
Dr. Roi Cohen Kadosh
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford, UK
Academic achievements such as math and reading are key predictors for future success at school, university, and later in life. Additionally, failure in these critical capacities negatively impacts the welfare of society as a whole. Current understanding of the link between high-level cognition, such as math and reading, and the brain has been primarily restricted to understanding the relationship between brain structure or function. At the same time a substantial body of animal and clinical research showing that cortical inhibition and excitation at the molecular or cellular levels play a critical role in efficient information transfer in the brain. It has further been suggested that cortical inhibition and excitation affects cognition in humans. I will present several studies that show how cortical inhibition and excitation are linked to high-level cognitive abilities in the child and adult human brain, and specifically how we can exogenously modulate cortical inhibition and excitation to optimise brain functions and improve cognition in typical and atypical populations. Such a multidisciplinary approach has the potential to bridge the separated strands of current research in psychology and education, system and molecular neuroscience, as well as animal models.
TRP channels: what are they and why are they important for understanding neuronal functions
Lecture
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Hour: 12:30
Location:
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
TRP channels: what are they and why are they important for understanding neuronal functions
Prof. Baruch Minke
Depts of Medical Neurobiology, the Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels constitute a large superfamily of polymodal channel proteins with diverse roles in many transduction and sensory pathways. These channels participate in most sensory modalities (e.g. vision, taste, temperature, pain, pheromone detection) and they either open directly in response to ligands or physical stimuli (e.g. temperature, osmotic pressure, or noxious substances) or, indirectly, downstream of a signal transduction cascade. TRP channels form an evolutionary conserved novel cation channel family consisting of seven subfamilies, which include nearly 30 human members. The founding member of this family was found in Drosophila and was designated TRP by Minke. TRP channels are classified into seven related subfamilies designated TRPC (Canonical or classical), TRPM (Melastatin), TRPN (NompC), TRPV (Vanilloid receptor), TRPA (ANKTM1), TRPP (Polycystin) and TRPML (Mucolipin). Our studies in Drosophila shed new light on the properties of the TRP channels by showing that a constitutive ATP-dependent process is required to keep these channels closed in the dark, a requirement that would make them sensitive to metabolic stress. Since mammalian TRP channels are heavily expressed in the brain, neuronal damage due to ischemia may involves activation of TRP channels.
Dendritic Computation
Lecture
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Hour: 17:00
Location:
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research
Dendritic Computation
Prof. Michael Hausser
The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
University College London
The computational power of single neurons has long been predicted using modelling approaches, but actual experimental examples of how neurons, and in particular their dendrites, can solve computational problems are rare. I will describe experiments using 2-photon glutamate uncaging in vitro, combined with in vivo 2-photon imaging and patch-clamp recording that demonstrate how active dendrites contribute to shaping canonical cortical computations.
Giving the brain a voice by converting traditional EEG into maps of brain activity: implication ranging from sleeping birds to humans with ALS
Lecture
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Hour: 11:00
Location:
Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
Giving the brain a voice by converting traditional EEG into maps of brain activity: implication ranging from sleeping birds to humans with ALS
Dr. Philip Low
Founder, Chairman, and CEO of NeuroVigil
See: http://www.neurovigil.com/leadership/
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Challenges and Debates at the Frontiers of Brain&Cognition
Conference
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Hour: 08:00 - 17:00
Location:
The David Lopatie Conference Centre
Challenges and Debates at the Frontiers of Brain&Cognition
Optogenetics: from cells to circuits and behavior
Conference
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Hour: 08:00 - 18:00
Location:
The David Lopatie Conference Centre
WIS-Australia Symposium on Metabolic Syndroms
Conference
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Hour: 08:00 - 16:45
Location:
The David Lopatie Conference Centre
WIS-Australia Symposium on Metabolic Syndroms
Emotional memories and stress: from normal physiology to psychopathology
Conference
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Hour:
Location:
The David Lopatie Conference Centre
Brain Sciences open day
Conference
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Hour: 12:30 - 16:00
Location:
The David Lopatie Conference Centre
Inflammation: A friend & a foe
Conference
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Hour: 08:00 - 20:00
Location:
The David Lopatie Conference Centre