Connectionists: Call for Registrations: 17th ICCNS conference (June 4-7, 2013)

[Brian Bowlby]

SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (ICCNS)
 
June 4 – 7, 2013
 
Boston University
677 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA
http://cns.bu.edu/cns-meeting/conference.html
 
Sponsored by the Boston University
Center for Adaptive Systems,
Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet),
and
Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology (CELEST)
with financial support from the National Science Foundation
 
 
This interdisciplinary conference is attended each year by approximately 300 people from 30 countries around the world. As in previous years, the conference will focus on solutions to the questions:
 
HOW DOES THE BRAIN CONTROL BEHAVIOR?
HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY EMULATE BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE?
 
The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, cognitive science, neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence. It includes invited lectures and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is particularly interested in exploring how the brain and biologically-inspired algorithms and systems in engineering and technology can learn.  Single-track oral and poster sessions enable all presented work to be highly visible. Three-hour poster sessions with no conflicting events will be held on two of the conference days. Posters will be up all day, and can also be viewed during breaks in the talk schedule.
 
This year's conference will include, in addition to regular invited and contributed talks and posters, two workshops on the topics:
 
NEURAL DYNAMICS OF VALUE-BASED DECISION-MAKING AND COGNITIVE PLANNING
and
SOCIAL COGNITION: FROM BABIES TO ROBOTS
 
See the url above for the complete program of invited speakers.
 
 
CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS
Todd Braver (Washington University, St. Louis)
Flexible neural mechanisms of cognitive control: Influences on reward-based decision-making
Marisa Carrasco (New York University)
Effects of attention on early vision
Patrick Cavanagh (Université Paris Descartes)
Common functional architecture for spatial attention and perceived location
Robert Desimone [Plenary Speaker] (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Prefrontal-visual cortex interactions in attention
Asif Ghazanfar (Princeton University)
Evolving and developing communication through coupled oscillations
Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)
Behavioral economics and neuroeconomics: Cooperation, competition, preference, and decision-making
Joy Hirsch (Columbia University Medical Center)
Neural circuits for conflict resolution
Roberta Klatzky (Carnegie Mellon University)
Multi-modal interactions within and between senses
Kevin LaBar (Duke University)
Neural systems for fear generalization
Randi Martin (Rice University)
Memory retrieval and interference during language comprehension
Andrew Meltzoff (University of Washington)
How to build a baby with social cognition: Accelerating learning by generalizing across self and other
Javier Movellan (University of California, San Diego)
Optimal control approaches to the analysis and synthesis of social behavior
Mary Potter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Recognizing briefly presented pictures: Feedforward processing?
Pieter Roelfsema (The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
Neuronal mechanisms for perceptual organization
Daniel Salzman (Columbia University)
Cognitive signals in the amygdala
Daniel Schacter [Plenary Speaker] (Harvard University)
Constructive memory and imagining the future
Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)
Neuronal reward and risk signals
Helen Tager-Flusberg (Boston University)
Identifying early neurobiological risk markers for autism spectrum disorder in the first year of life
Jan Theeuwes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Prior history shapes selection
James Todd (Ohio State University)
The perception of 3D shape from texture
Leslie Ungerleider (National Institutes of Health)
Functional architecture for face processing in the primate brain
Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital)
How selective and non-selective pathways contribute to visual search in scenes
 
 
 
REGISTRATION FORM
Seventeenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems
June 4 – 7, 2013
Boston University
677 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA
Fax: +1 617 353 7755
 
Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof:_____________________________________________________
 
Affiliation:_________________________________________________________
 
Address:__________________________________________________________
 
City, State, Postal Code:______________________________________________
 
Phone and Fax:_____________________________________________________
 
Email:____________________________________________________________
 
 
The registration fee includes a conference reception and multiple daily coffee breaks.
 
CHECK ONE:
(  ) $135 Conference (Regular)                
(  )   $85 Conference (Student)     
 
METHOD OF PAYMENT:
[   ] Enclosed is a check made payable to "Boston University"
Checks must be made payable in US dollars and issued by a US correspondent bank. Each registrant is responsible for any and all bank charges.
 
[   ] I wish to pay by credit card
      (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover Card only)
 
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