The Bodian Seminar   2007-2008


7/9/2007     James Knierim, PH.D.    University of Texas
 Memory Formation in the Hippocampal Formation: A Multi-region Analysis

9/17/2007     Nitish Thakor, Ph.D.    Johns Hopkins University
 "Decoding Multi-finger movement for Neuroprosthetic Control"

10/5/2007     Ned Block, Ph.D.    New York University
 "Consciousness, Cognitive Accessibility, and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience"

10/12/2007     Eberhard Fetz, Ph.D.    University of Washington
 "Volitional control of cortical activity and recurrent brain-computer interfaces"

10/22/2007     Philip N. Sabes, Ph.D.    University of California San Francisco
 "Sensory integration and adaptation: behavior, optimality, and neural models"

10/29/2007     Andreas Andreou, Ph.D.    Johns hopkins University
 TBA

11/12/2007     Takehiro Matsumora    Nat'l Institute Physiological Sciences Japan
 "Quantitative relationships between the activities of color selective neurons in area TE of the monkey and color discrimination behavior"

11/19/2007     Cornelia Fermuller, Ph.D.    University of Maryland at College Park
 “Computational insights into visual motion processing”

11/26/2007     Doris Y. Tsao, Ph.D.    University of Bremen
 A specialized system for processing faces in the macaque temporal lobe

12/3/2007     David Linden, Ph.D.    Johns Hopkins University
 "Axonal motility in the intact, adult cerebellum"

12/10/2007     Rick Born, PhD    Harvard University
 ”Integrating Motion and Depth via Parallel Pathways”

1/7/2008     Tara Thiagarajan, Ph.D.    National Institute of Health
 “Coherence Potentials: A network level action potential-like phenomenon in the cortex”

1/14/2008     Asaf Keller, Ph.D.    University of MD School of Medicine
  “Gateways to tactile perception: Parallel processing of pain and somatosensation”

1/28/2008     Patrick Kanold, Ph.D.    University of MD College Park
 "Early circuits that regulate cortical development and plasticity"

2/18/2008     Dietmar Plenz, Ph.D.    National Institute of Mental Health
 "Neuronal Avalanches and the Organization of Ongoing Cortical Synchrony in the Awake Macaque Monkey"

3/3/2008     Tomoyuki Furuyashiki , MD, PhD    Johns Hopkins University
 Action monitoring and outcome expectancy in rodent orbitofrontal cortex

3/10/2008     Katalin M. Gothard, Ph.D.    University of Arizona
 "Emotion and Attention in the Primate Amygdala"

3/24/2008     Giulio Tononi, Ph.D.    University of Wisconsin
  “Sleep Function and Synaptic Homeostasis”

3/31/2008     Hey-Kyoung Lee, Ph.D.    University of Maryland
 “Visual experience-induced regulation of excitatory synapses in primary sensory cortices”

4/28/2008     Harel Shouval, Ph.D.    University of Texas Medical School at Houston
 "Learning Reward Timing in cortex: A theoretical study"

5/12/2008     Charles E. Schroeder, Ph.D.    Nathan S. Kline Insitute for Psychiatric Research
 "Neuronal Oscillations as Instruments of Sensory Selection"