NACS' Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC)

Made possible by a $2 million award from the NSF, the MNC will house a new fMRI scanner and the University's existing MEG, a combination that exists at only a couple of locations in the country. The center opens in Summer 2011.

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NACS Seminars

Each seminar is one hour long, followed by a short discussion period. Room 1103 Bioscience Research Building, 10:15 am.

Date Name General Topic
September 09, 2011 Lou Matzel Selective Attention and Dopaminergic Regulation of "Intelligence" in Genetically Heterogeneous Mice
September 16, 2011 Jonathan Wolpaw What Can the Spinal Cord Teach Us about Learning and Memory?
September 23, 2011 Joszef Fiser The relation between optimal internal models and the spontaneous activity in the brain
September 30, 2011 Matthias Scheutz DIARC: Steps Towards an Integrated Architecture for Human-Robot Interactions in Natural Language
October 07, 2011 Laszlo Zaborszky Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System: Anatomy to Function
October 21, 2011 Aleix Martinez Deciphering the Face
October 28, 2011 Karen Mesce Understanding the neural mechanisms of locomotion in a simpler nervous system: small steps and major strides
November 04, 2011 Atsushi Iriki Triadic (ecological, neural, cognitive) niche construction viewed through primate brain evolution
November 18, 2011 CANCELED (Leo Cohen)
December 02, 2011 Giulio Sandini Humanoid Robotics and Neuroscience: what I know is what I build
February 03, 2012 Margaret Sheridan Environmental influences on neural development: from institutionalization to socioeconomic status
February 10, 2012 Karen Parker The psychology of stress resilience
February 17, 2012 Tatyana Sharpee How information is preserved in neural transmission
February 24, 2012 Wei Li A color coding amacrine cell in a mammalian retina
March 02, 2012 BJ Casey Self-control: beyond effortful inhibition
March 09, 2012 Lori Holt Using speech to listen in on auditory processing
March 30, 2012 Charan Ranganath Memory is more than words: Context matters
April 06, 2012 John Krakauer Puzzling over motor learning
April 13, 2012 Takao Hensch Shaping neural circuits by early experience
April 20, 2012 Christoph Schreiner Auditory Cortical Inhibition: No sense without it......
April 27, 2012 Mark Hallett Physiology of Volition
September 14, 2012 Paul Fuchs
September 21, 2012 Brad Schlaggar
September 28, 2012 Konrad Kording
October 19, 2012 Tobias Moser
October 26, 2012 Samer Hattar
November 02, 2012 Olaf Sporns
November 09, 2012 Dima Rinberg
November 16, 2012 Joseph LeDoux
November 30, 2012 Karl Kandler

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