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Invited Symposia

Invited Symposium 1 - The cognitive neuroscience of curiosity and curiosity-driven learning

Sunday, March 21, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Salons A-E

Chair: Matthias Gruber¹ (gruberm@cardiff.ac.uk); ¹Cardiff University

Curiosity, the intrinsic motivation to acquire novel information, enhances learning and memory. Cognitive neuroscience has begun to identify the mechanisms behind this effect, implicating reward circu… View More…

Invited Symposium 2 - Neuromodulation of cognitive circuits – from animal models to human translation

Sunday, March 21, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Salons G-K

Chair: Dr. Sabine Kastner¹ (skastner@princeton.edu); ¹Princeton University

Cognition results from computations within and across nodes of large-scale networks that span areas of the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus. Using non-invasive and invasive methods in huma… View More…

Invited Symposium 3 - Neuroplasticity of Language: Insights from Exceptional Language Experience.

Tuesday, March 23, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Salons A-E

Chairs: David Corina¹ (dpcorina@ucdavis.edu) & Marina Bedny² (marina.bedny@jhu.edu); ¹University of California Davis, ²Johns Hopkins University

Advances in cognitive neuroscience have yielded broad agreement that multiple distinct cortical networks are involved in language processing, including the frontotemporal, language network, a domain-g… View More…

Invited Symposium 4 - From Prediction to Explanation: Opportunities and Challenges for NeuroAI

Tuesday, March 23, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Salons G-K

Chair: Leila Wehbe¹ (marina.bedny@jhu.edu); ¹Stanford University

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have transformed our ability to predict neural activity and compare representations in artificial and biological systems. At the same time, neural and cogniti… View More…