Announcement of Brain Science of Communications Symposium

[Mieko Namba]

Dear members,

I am glad to inform you that the "Brain Science of Communications Symposium"
will be held as below.  The project "Communications of Primates including
Humans" is supported by Science and Technology Agency Special Coordination
Fund Projects for Strategic Promotion System for Brain Science.
Please join us if you have an interest.

For details of the project:
http://hozu.ctr.atr.co.jp/kbp/index.html
For details of the symposium:
URL:http://hozu.ctr.atr.co.jp/kbp/symposium.html

Mitsuo Kawato
ATR Human Information Processing Res. Labs.

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        Brain Science of Communications Symposium
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The Science and Technology Agency Special Coordination Fund Project
        Strategic Promotion System for Brain Science
         "Communications of Primates including Humans"

Date: December 14 (Mon) and 15 (Tue), 1998
Place: The Keihanna Plaza, Kansai Science City
Fee: Free (charged for the party, \3000)

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Dec. 14, 1998 Monday 13:00〜18:00    Language: English
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<Session 1:  Mechanism of Brain Communication>

13:00-13:15  Welcome & Introduction
   Yoh'ichi Tohkura (NTT Basic Res. Labs., ATR-I)

13:15-14:00  Invited Lecture
   Computational Models of Cortical-Cerebellar and Cortical-Basal
   Ganglionic Control and Cognition
   James C. Houk (Northwestern University Medical School)

14:10-14:50
   Role of the basal ganglia in learning sequential motor tasks
   Minoru Kimura (School of Health and Sport Sciences, Osaka Univ.)

15:00-15:40
   The roles of reward prediction in motor control and communication
   Kenji Doya (Kawato Dynamic Brain Project, ERATO)

16:00-16:40
   Cerebellar simple spikes and complex spikes during arm movements
   Shigeru Kitazawa (Electrotechnical Lab.)

16:50-17:30
   Computational theory of communication based on multiple paired
   forward-inverse models
   Mitsuo Kawato (ATR Human Information Processing Res. Labs.)

17:30-18:00    Discussion
18:00-19:30   Party

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Dec.15, 1998 Tuesday 10:00〜17:30    Language: Japanese
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<Session 2 :  Language and Measurement of Brain Activity>

10:00-10:40
   Universal Properties of Language: Embedding and
   Long-Distance Dependency
   Yukio Otsu (Inst. of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio Univ.)

10:50-11:30
   Brain mechanisms of verbal and non-verbal communication
   Toshio Inui (Dept. of Intelligence Science and Technology
   Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto Univ.)

11:30-12:00    Discussion
12:00-13:20    Lunch Break

13:20-14:00
   FMRI and MEG study of neural activity during judgments of visually
   presented characters and character strings
   Norio Fujimaki (Fujitsu Labs. Ltd., Communications Res. Lab.)

14:10-14:50
   Neuronal representation of facial information for communication :
   Single neuronsin the temporal cortex encode finer facial information
   with a categorized header
   Shigeru Yamane (Electrotechnical Lab.)

15:10-15:50
   Development of Neuromagnetic virtual sensor system
   Yoshida Yoshikazu (Technology Res. Lab.,  Shimadzu Corporation)

16:00-16:40
   The study of visual grouping in human brain using high spatial
   resolution MEG
   Keisuke Toyama (Dept. of Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural Univ. of Medicine)

16:40-17:20   Discussion
17:20-17:30   Closing Remarks
   Yoh'ichi Tohkura(NTT Basic Research Laboratories, ATR-I


Registration Form:  Kansai Brain Project Symposium
(e-mail to the secretariat: ikeda at ctr.atr.co.jp)
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Mieko Namba
Secretary to Dr. Mitsuo Kawato
Editorial Administrator of NEURAL NETWORKS

ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories
2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
TEL +81-774-95-1058    FAX +81-774-95-1008
E-MAIL mieko at hip.atr.co.jp
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