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The Center for Cognitive Sciences & the Brain Sciences Center present the
2014 CCS Fall Institute & American Legion Family Brain Sciences Lecture

 

Cognition of Space and Time

Wednesday, October 29
Mayo Auditorium, University of Minnesota Medical School

 9:10 AM Apostolos P. Georgopoulos: Welcoming Remarks
 9:15-10:15


Nicole Scott, MS
Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota

Developmental and neural correlates of encoding spatial relations
 10:15-11:15


Hugo Merchant, PhD
Department of Neurobiology, UNAM, Querétaro, Mexico

Sensorimotor neural dynamics during isochronous tapping in the medial premotor cortex of the macaque
 11:15-11:30 Break
 11:30-12:30


Deborah Harrington, PhD
Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego & San Diego VA Healthcare System

Interval timing in the human brain
 12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
 1:30-2:30


Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, MD
Department of Neuroscience &
Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota

Fronto-parietal and hemispheric interactions in spatial categorization
 2:30-3:30


Sofia Sakellaridi, PhD
Department of Neurobiology, UCLA

City map reading: Decision making and neural mechanisms
 3:30-3:45 Break


3:45-4:00 PM - American Legion Family Brain Sciences Student Awards
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4:00-5:00 PM - The 20th American Legion Family Brain Sciences Lecture

Richard A. Andersen, PhD
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology

Parietal cortex in action

 

 


Updated February 19, 2015