Events: archive

02Nov2017 04Nov2017

WORLDING THE BRAIN II

Symposium

Following the success of Worlding the Brain 2016, we continue this series of multi-disciplinary encounters of science, art and the humanities with an international conference on the themes of Affect, Care and ...

26Oct2017

Predicting and improving English foreign language skills in elementary school children

10:00 - 17:00 | Symposium

This symposium is organized in the context of the NWO ORWELL-project: All children are equal but some are more equal than others. Improving the acquisition of English at school.

24Oct2017

ABC lecture - Isabelle Peretz: Neurobiology of congenital amusia

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

The last decade of research has provided compelling evidence that musical engagement is a fundamental human trait, and its biological basis is increasingly scrutinized.

17Oct2017

Lecture - Ram Frost: Visual statistical learning and writing systems: Learning to read a new orthography

17:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Writing systems can be characterized by systematic co-occurrences of letter sequences, by correlations of in letter-to-sound mappings, and by correlations between form and semantic meaning through morphological ...

22Sept2017

ABC colloquium - Bahador Bahrami: What makes Social Interactive Decision Making interesting?

16:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Most of us believe that two heads are better than one.

30Aug2017 02Sept2017

Metaphor Festival Amsterdam ’17

Conference

The conference starts on Wednesday 30 August with a social gathering (evening, optional) and formally opens on Thursday 31 August at 9.00 a.m. The conference closes on Saturday 2 September at the end of the afternoon.

05Aug2017 08Aug2017

ICON XIII

Conference

From Saturday 5th – Tuesday 8th of August 2017, the 13th International conference for cognitive neuroscience (ICON), will be held in Amsterdam hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

14July2017

Multi-scale computational models for brain dynamics and cognition, a SILS-Center for Neuroscience Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 | Lecture

In recent years, there has been an intense effort to characterize both the structure and the dynamics of the brain at different scales. Initiatives such as BRAIN aim to develop innovative large-scale recording ...

10July2017

Traveling waves in cortex: spatiotemporal dynamics shape perceptual and cognitive processes, a SILS-Center for Neuroscience Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 | Lecture

With new multichannel recording technologies, traveling waves of neural activity have recently been discovered in multiple sensory, motor, and cognitive regions of cortex. These waves can be spontaneously generated ...

30June2017

ABC Symposium: Crossing the watershed between sleep & wakefulness

09:00 - 18:30 | Symposium

The Symposium is organized as part of the ABC Summer School “The Sleeping Brain: From neuronal networks to cognition”

23June2017

ABC Brain Day & Night 2017

12:30 - 23:59 | Conference

Registration for workshops, poster presentation and dinner is closed. (20 June @12:00)

22June2017

ABC colloquium - Laura Busse, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich

16:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Contextual influences on information processing in the mouse early visual system. A causal test of V1’s role in visual awareness.

19June2017 30June2017

ABC Summer School: The Sleeping Brain

Conference

This year's ABC Summer School, organized by Lucia Talamini and Umberto Olcese on behalf of the research master Brain and Cognitive Sciences, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sleep. It will explore ...

08June2017