Talk: Violent Injuires: Studies from the social neuroscience perspective

Topic: Violent Injuires: Studies from the social neuroscience perspective Speaker: Dr. Chenyi Chen (Assistant Professor, Graudate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University) Time: 2018/04/27 (Friday) 15:00-17:00 Location: 12 Floor, Conference room, DA-An Branch, Taipei Medical University Abstract: The leading risk of death throughout the prime of life is not disease. It is violence. […]

Talk: Understand Resting State Networks of the Brain: neural basis and function

Topic: Understand Resting State Networks of the Brain: neural basis and function Speaker: Dr. Kai-Hsiang Chuang (Associate Professor, Queensland Brain Institute and Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) Time: 2018/03/21 (Friday) 15:00-17:00 Location: 12 Floor, Conference room, DA-AN Branch, Taipei Medical University Abstract: Synchronous neural oscillation provides information on the functional connectivity […]

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: 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 […]