Talk: Role of Early Visual Experience in Multisensory Perception
Topic: Role of Early Visual Experience in Multisensory Perception Speaker: Yi-Chuan Chen (Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College) Time: 2018/01/12 (Friday) 15:00-17:00 Location: 12 Floor, Conference room, DA-AN Branch, Taipei Medical University
Talk: From localizing involvement to determining the function of brain areas using transcranial magnetic stimulation
Topic: From localizing involvement to determining the function of brain areas using transcranial magnetic stimulation Speaker: Neil G Muggleton (Distinguished Professor, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University) Time: 2017/12/29 (Friday) 15:00-17:00 Location: 12 Floor, Conference room, DA-AN Branch, Taipei Medical University
Talk: How attention engenders consciousness: The “attended intermediate-level representation” theory of consciousness
Topic: How attention engenders consciousness: The “attended intermediate-level representation” theory of consciousness Speaker: Jesse J. Prinz (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York, Graduate Center) Time: 2017/12/18 (Friday) 10:00-11:00 Location: 12 Floor, Conference room, DA-AN Branch, Taipei Medical University
Talk: Temporal orienting and predictive processing in the brain
Topic: Temporal orienting and predictive processing in the brain Speaker: Dr. Ryszard Auksztulewicz (Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong) Time: 2017/12/04 (Mon) 13:10-14:20 Location: North Hall Classroom A, National Taiwan University Abstract: While the behavioural correlates and neural mechanisms of spatial attention are relatively well understood, temporal orienting – or attending to […]
Talk: Neural signatures of predictive coding are context-dependent
Topic: Neural signatures of predictive coding are context-dependent Speaker: Dr. Ryszard Auksztulewicz (Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong) Time: 2017/12/01 (Friday) 15:00-17:00 Location: 20F Conference room , DA-AN Branch, Taipei Medical University Abstract: The brain is thought to generate internal predictions to optimise behaviour. However, it is unclear to what extent these predictions are […]
Talk: Neurological evidence of a dual origin of temporal preparation
Topic: Neurological evidence of a dual origin of temporal preparation Speaker: Professor Marcus Missal (Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvai) Time: 2017/11/17 (Fri) 15:00-17:00 Location: B202 Conference room , DA-AN Branch, Taipei Medical University Abstract: In the present study, we investigated temporal preparation in Parkison’s disease patients during a variable foreperiod before the appearance of a visual target. Patients suffered […]
Talk: The quest for a consciousness meter
Topic: The quest for a consciousness meter Speaker: Professor Tim Bayne (Department of Philosophy, Monash University) Time: 2017/11/7 (Tue) 15:00-16:00 Location: 20 Floor, Conference room , DA-AN Branch, Taipei Medical University Abstract: One of the central challenges facing the science of consciousness is that of identifying ways of measuring consciousness. Can we go beyond our […]
Talk: Circadian biology: Genes to Systems
Topic: Circadian biology: Genes to Systems Speaker: Dr. Jihwan Myung (Senior Research Fellow, Brain and Consciousness Research Center) Date: 2017/10/23 (Mon) 14:00-15:00 Location: 4F Conference Hall, United Medical Building, Taipei Medical University Abstract: Almost 300 years ago, an important observation was made that the leaves of mimosa “sleep” at night even in a constantly dark wine chamber. Do they […]
Talk: Control of Pupil Responses from Circuits to Cognition
Talk: Neurocognitive basis of obesity and prospects for neuromodulation with tDCS
Talk: Seeing stability: Physical understanding is rooted in automatic visual processing
Topic: Seeing stability: Physical understanding is rooted in automatic visual processing Speaker : Chaz Firestone (Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Johns Hopkins University Date : 2017/04/27 (Thu.) 10:00-12:00 Location: 501 meeting room, 5F United Medical Building (Back Building) ,Taipei Medical University Abstract: Among our most impressive intellectual achievements is the ability to interpret the […]
Talk: Cognition does not affect perception
Topic: Cognition does not affect perception Speaker : Dr. Chaz Firestone (Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Johns Hopkins University) Date : 2017.04.26 (Wed.) 15:00-17:00 Location: 4F Lecture Hall, United Medical Front Building, Taipei Medical University Abstract: What determines what we see? A tidal wave of recent research alleges that visual experience is ‘penetrated’ by […]