In vision the more we study the cortex, it seems, the less we think about the retina. Perhaps the cause for this is that as the cortex develops it can ...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Jan 29, 2001 11:40 pm
Pascual-Leone is arguably the most important researcher of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). This talk will probably be related to the recent paper: ...
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Satrajit S. Ghosh
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Jan 30, 2001 4:00 pm
Time: Noon Space: Research Affairs Conference Room This is a short intro from her website: Dr. Luna's interest lies in characterizing the changes that occur in...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Jan 30, 2001 4:42 pm
Graziano has only published 13 papers. But 5 of them were in Science and Nature. Not bad... There was no abstract sent out in the bcs-talks mail, so I've ...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Jan 30, 2001 10:17 pm
Graziano has only published 13 papers. But 5 of them were in Science and Nature. Not bad... There was no abstract sent out in the bcs-talks mail, so I've ...
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Diana Meyers
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Jan 30, 2001 10:44 pm
Note: Our apologies if you receive this posting more than once. Spring 2001 Colloquium Series CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Jan 31, 2001 8:46 pm
Kalanit Grill-Spector is a postdoc with Nancy Kanwisher at MIT. She had a Nature Neuroscience paper recently showing that when objects are presented for very...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Feb 2, 2001 8:29 pm
Here's a quote from Dr.Blair's webpage. I'm not really sure what to make of "the cognitive mechanism underpinning the development of morality", but I guess it...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Feb 2, 2001 8:40 pm
Jackendoff is a linguistics prof at Brandeis. He had a 1987 MIT Press book called "Consciousness and the Computational Mind". I don't know much about it,...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Feb 2, 2001 8:44 pm
Katz has done lots of important work on cortical development, mostly in the visual system, so this seems to be a new direction for him. I imagine that the talk...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Feb 2, 2001 9:56 pm
Sorry, I forgot to put in the mail where it will be. MIT, Dept Brain & Cog Sci, Building E25, Room 401. Raj Dr. James Blair Senior Lecturer Institute of...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Feb 2, 2001 10:24 pm
Markram does really beautiful work on synaptic plasticity. A lot of people still think of synapses as things that pass on the firing that comes in to them, and...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 5, 2001 1:18 pm
Getting injured nerve pathways to join up again is obviously one of the number one goals of neuroscience. Dr. Chen had a Nature paper about this not long ago: ...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 5, 2001 1:29 pm
Here are three talks tomorrow which are about cellular/developmental/genetic research in neuroscience. I am rather embarrassingly ignorant about the topics of...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 5, 2001 4:49 pm
Guosong Liu's research (taking the description from his webpage) aims to study how synaptic activities regulate the strength of interconnections between...
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Satrajit S Ghosh
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Feb 6, 2001 3:43 am
Time : >>>>>11 am<<<<<<< (changed for this week) Location: Research Affairs Conference room, MGH, Charlestown. The prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Feb 6, 2001 4:07 pm
Going to this would involve getting up early on a Sunday morning. Most of the main neuroscience people at BU will be giving (very brief) presentations of their...
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Aaron Seitz
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Feb 6, 2001 5:29 pm
How is the brain able to form topographic maps? For example, how does the visual cortex preserves neighborhood relationships with cells in the retina? This...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Feb 6, 2001 6:57 pm
This list is meant to be mostly about systems-level neuroscience, but this talk does cover synaptic plasticity, so I guess it qualifies. Also, I guess that we...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 9, 2001 3:56 pm
Matteo Carandini does very computationally-informed visual neurophysiology, looking quantitatively at issues like orientation tuning and gain control in...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 9, 2001 7:25 pm
If you want to know how coffee keeps you awake, then check out this talk. I expect that it will be related to the following recent paper: Strecker RE, Morairty...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 9, 2001 7:39 pm
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/neuroscience/seminar.html Monday, Feb 12, 12.15pm William Greenough (Beckman Inst, Univ of Illinois) Experience, brain...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 9, 2001 8:08 pm
The Dunham Lectures are *very* prestigious, and Martin Raff is a *very* important scientist. He is probably the world's most important researcher of neural...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 12, 2001 2:45 pm
Peter Dayan is a well-respected neural modeler. He is somewhat unusual in that he tries to combine modeling psychological phenomena (especially conditioning)...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 12, 2001 3:05 pm
Vocal learning in songbirds might seem like an obscure topic, but there is some evidence that it may share some common mechanisms with human speech. (See the...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 12, 2001 3:41 pm
Shimon Edelman works on object recognition. He's primarily a modeler, but he also does psychophysics and fMRI, trying to test current computational theories....
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Aaron Seitz
aseitz@...
Feb 12, 2001 5:49 pm
For those not up on the research of single synapses Dr. Liu is a must see. He uses cutting edge technology, technical skill and solid science to address issues...
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Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Feb 12, 2001 7:26 pm
Jeremy Schmahmann is a neurologist at Harvard Med School, and is also the President of the Boston Society of Neurology and Psychiatry. He recently had a Trends...
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Norbert Kopco
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Feb 12, 2001 9:15 pm
Barb Shinn-Cunningham has done a lot of important work on auditory localization in rooms, focusing on sound sources within the reach of a listener, on auditory...
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Rajeev Raizada
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Feb 15, 2001 12:26 am
Friday Feb. 16, 4pm Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine "Learning Dynamics of Reaching Movements in Humans" MIT, Dept. Brain & Cog.Sci., Building...
