Invited Symposia

Invited Symposium 1 - Cognitive neuroscience in infants

Chair: Nick Turk-Browne¹; ¹Yale University

How do infants experience and understand the world around them? Much of what we know about early perceptual and cognitive development has come from behavioral studies and from infant-friendly neurosci… View More…

Invited Symposium 2 - Putting the frontal lobe into focus: precision mapping of fine-scale functional organization of prefrontal cortex

Chair: Caterina Gratton¹; ¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Prefrontal cortex has long been recognized as a core structure for diverse cognitive processes, including goal-directed ‘cognitive control’, as well as language, social cognition, and deci… View More…

Invited Symposium 3 - Effectuating Societal Impact via Cognitive Neuroscience

Chairs: Marian Berryhill¹, Micah Murray²; ¹University of Nevada, Reno, ²University of Lausanne

Scientists, including cognitive neuroscientists, have a societal obligation to generate knowledge, but also to disseminate it and steward its application toward the common good. This invited symposium… View More…

Invited Symposium 4 - How the Brain Creates Language: Insights from Genes, Neural Pathways, Neuroprosthetics, and Computational Models

Chair: Tamara Swaab^1,2; ¹University of Birmingham, UK, ²University of California, Davis, USA

Understanding how the human brain creates language requires explanations that span from our genetic blueprint to the neural circuits and computational principles that support communication. This invit… View More…