EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE:

TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS

 

A Satellite Symposium at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Hyatt Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, April 8, 2006

 

Co-sponsored by the

NSF Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology (CELEST)

(http://cns.bu.edu/CELEST/)

and the

International Neural Network Society (INNS)

(http://www.inns.org/)

 

 

This symposium discusses recent experimental data about important topics in cognitive neuroscience, and computational cognitive neuroscience models aimed at explaining these and related data in a unified way while making new predictions that can be tested by multiple means.

 

Register

Link to the CNS 06 website

 

9:55am – 10:00am

Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)

Welcome and Introduction

 

Speech Perception and Production

 

10:00am – 10:30am

Gregory Hickok (University of California at Irvine)

Sensory-Motor Integration in Speech: Evidence from Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology

 

10:30am – 11:00am

Joseph Perkell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Speech Motor Control: Movement Goals and Sensory Feedback Mechanisms

 

11:00am – 11:40am

Frank Guenther (Boston University)

Neural Modeling and Imaging of the Cortical Interactions Underlying Speech

 

11:40am – 11:55am

Discussion

 

11:55am – 1:10pm

Lunch

 

Visual Attention and Learning

 

1:10pm – 1:40pm

Takeo Watanabe (Boston University)

Perceptual Learning without Attention

 

1:40pm – 2:10pm

Robert Desimone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Visual Attention and Neural Synchrony

 

2:10pm – 2:50pm

Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)

Cortical Dynamics of Visual Learning, Attention, and Synchrony

 

2:50pm – 3:20pm

Discussion and Coffee Break

 

Cognitive Control, Sequence Learning, and Planning

 

3:20pm – 3:50pm

Robert Sekuler (Brandeis University)

Imitating Unfamiliar Sequences

 

3:50pm – 4:20pm

Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The Prefrontal Cortex: Rules, Concepts, Cognitive Control

 

4:20pm – 5:00pm

Daniel Bullock (Boston University)

Modeling Frontal Circuits that Control Unfamiliar and Learned Sequences

 

5:00pm – 5:15pm

Discussion and Wrap-up