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CNS 2020 Day 2 Highlights

May 3, 2020

Day 2 of CNS 2020 Virtual started off strong with the first invited symposium, chaired by Christoph Kayser, and featuring a terrific panel of speakers on the role causal inference for perceptual decisions and adaptive behavior. Midday, Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Melon University) delivered her Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience award lecture on hemispheric organization for visual recognition, and the sessions for the day ended with symposia on a range of topics, from the manipulating brain networks and affective neuroscience of SES to mechanisms of information-seeking and development and plasticity of high-level vision and cognition. Throughout the day, participants from around the world shared research in poster sessions and visit booth from our Exhibitors. Check out some highlights from Twitter here:

Invited Symposium 2-

Good morning #CNS2020! Now playing in the “Grand Ballroom”: Invited Symposium 2 on the role of causal inference for perceptual decisions and adaptive behavior – @ChristophKayse2 chairs pic.twitter.com/X6ETZsF3px

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

.@rndenison on navigating uncertainty in decision-making #CNS2020 pic.twitter.com/1CJsN6ZKhr

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

.@gershbrain now on causal inference in human reinforcement learning #CNS2020 pic.twitter.com/78k8fzfsWm

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

Now up #CNS2020: Uta Noppeney on casual inference in multisensory perception pic.twitter.com/JAId4jMiAT

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

Example of casual inference problem: See a bird on a branch and you hear a bird singing — do you integrate or segregate? Is it one bird you can see and hear? Or, is it one bird you can hear and another you can see?
How do you know? Noppeny’s modeling work explores…. #CNS2020

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

Great to see live Q&A with speakers in the chat! #CNS2020 pic.twitter.com/IyIMidNm8y

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

.@ChristophKayse2 returns to the bar example to discuss the persistent influence of causal inference in multisensory perception #CNS2020 pic.twitter.com/beFG8zrryR

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020


Exhibition Hall-

This is a novelty: parked at my kitchen table to populate a virtual ‘booth’ to represent @RSocPublishing at #CNS2020. If you’re attending the meeting, do pop by the exhibitors’ ‘hall’ and get in touch.

— Andrew Dunn (@AndrewDunn10) May 3, 2020

If you are in the #CSN2020 Exhibition Hall, check out our exhibitor booths, in addition to the posters. In the spotlight today: @NIRx_NIRS and @Brainsight pic.twitter.com/qrvJNKdgFG

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

 

Posters-

whether it’s time for your morning coffee in Boston or your afternoon teatime in London, @AlmansaJ1 @corradi_claudia and myself we are waiting for you next to our posters at the exhibit hall of #CNS2020 ‘See’ you there! https://t.co/w94JxohKVy pic.twitter.com/FR5HRXbC1z

— Vasiliki Meletaki (@V_Meletaki) May 3, 2020

Naama Mayseless, Stanford, investigates humor in 6-8 year olds using functional near-infrared spectroscopy #fNIRS, replicates previous fMRI work – relationship btwn activation in temporal occipital parietal junction & humor processing, #CNS2020 poster session 2, B12 1/ pic.twitter.com/en5gXnZy6K

— Natalie Gilmore (@nm_gilmore) May 3, 2020

Audreyana Jagger-Rickels @RLMikeEsterman @VABostonHC #TRACTS poster B37 investigates influence of PTSD on functional connectivity in frontoparietal control and limbic networks in veterans #CNS2020 pic.twitter.com/02kCojbfgg

— Natalie Gilmore (@nm_gilmore) May 3, 2020

Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture-

This is new—#CNS2020 over breakfast at home! up next: Kavli Lecture from Dr. Behrmann @CNSmtg pic.twitter.com/oaYRvGhA05

— Sarah Kark (@sarah_kark) May 3, 2020

Congratulations to Marlene Behrmann (@cmupsych), recipient of the Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience! Tune into her talk now in the #CNS2020 Virtual Grand Ballroom. pic.twitter.com/FCFEEOUAOT

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

Behrmann leaves us and concludes her fascinating #CNS2020 award talk with a “more reasonable view of bilateral but somewhat weighted function.” Both hemispheres participate in a whole host of tasks with weighted asymmetry pic.twitter.com/ESMAqnhRFY

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

Afternoon symposia talks-

Exploring how SES (socioeocnomic status) affects a variety of psychological outcomes — cognitive, affective, and physical. Martha Farah chairs this #CNS2020 session, which will explore this at four times in the lifespan — prenatal, childhood, young adulthood, and parenthood pic.twitter.com/GeaV6mqwnT

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

Moriah Thompson Claudia and Espinoza-Heredia jointly present on neural correlates of poverty in the human fetal brain #CNS2020 pic.twitter.com/vrClEblJ7F

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

Joan Luby (@WUSTLmed) kicks off her #CNS2020 talk with some key principles about how experience materially impacts brain development, especially in early, sensitive times — and how to leverage data to inform public health planning pic.twitter.com/62HoDoBSjy

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

.@RobinNusslock takes a multi-organ look at the impacts of SES on mental and physical outcomes, specially using a neuroimmune network model #CNS2020 #neuroscience #poverty pic.twitter.com/mvwPC4vlN4

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

Pilyoung Kim discuses SES and the neurobiology of parenting #CNS2020 pic.twitter.com/Q1nBGczAC4

— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews) May 3, 2020

one way of supporting recovery of language network after stroke is to target domain general regions with TMS, more work in this vein to come! @GesaHartwigsen #CNS2020 #aphasia https://t.co/1BIKupUsnG pic.twitter.com/U9hjNGBBZ4

— Natalie Gilmore (@nm_gilmore) May 3, 2020

How do domain-specific network/functional organization develop?Already prewired with connections? Or driven by experience? Very interesting @CNSmtg’s symposium with neonates & blindness connectivity data! #CNS2020 https://t.co/KATb3ZcBXO

— Yunji Park (@ypark246) May 3, 2020

Amazing @CogNeuroNews symposium! #CNS2020 https://t.co/dJBXv6xY4T

— Viviana Greco (@vivianagreco19) May 3, 2020

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