Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Neurosciences Research Program: Neuroscience and Higher Brain Function: State of the Art

This Tuesday The Neurosciences Institute holds a workshop, titled "Neuroscience and Higher Brain Function: State of the Art". Here is the schedule: http://www.nsi.edu/nrp/index.html. See you tomorrow!

Celebrating the 50^th Anniversary of the Neurosciences Research Program

Neuroscience and Higher Brain Function: State of the Art
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium
10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, CA 92121
8:30 am - 5:30 pm

Welcome and Introduction
8:30 am	Gerald Edelman
Cortex: A View from the Top Chairman: Gerald Edelman
8:40 am	Ranulfo Romo	Perceptual Decision Processes across Cortex
	Jon Kaas	Cortical Sensorimotor Networks
	Thomas Albright	On the Perception of Probable Things
Memory and Cognitive Control Chairman: Larry Squire
10:50 am	György Buzsaki	Neural Syntax
	John O'Keefe	Memory Systems of the Medial Temporal Lobes
	Mark D'Esposito	Modularity, Networks, and Cognitive Control
12:45 pm	Lunch
Value and Cognition Chairman: Einar Gall
1:45 pm	Michael Merzenich	"Cultural Neuroscience": How the World Changes Your Brain and Our Brains Change the World
	Joaquin Fuster	The Prefrontal Cortex: Executive, Controller, or Enabler of the Perception/Action Cycle?
	Yasushi Miyashita	Cognitive Memory and its Cellular/Network Machinery: How Global Brain-wide Networks Interact with Local Micro-circuits
Diagnosis and Repair Chairman: Gerald Edelman
3:55 pm	Eberhard Fetz	Bidirectional Interactions between the Brain and Implantable Computers
	Apostolos Georgopoulos	Prewhitening for Brain Discovery
Summary
5:20 pm	Gerald Edelman