
Registration is free, but spaces are limited.
Please register by email incl. the header [L&C Nijmegen], to stephanie.forkel@donders.ru.nl.
Please add your dietary requirements to the email.
Meeting ID: 895 8114 6322, Passcode: CNS
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89581146322?pwd=QWp1a0ZqZ1I2bk9OUktDOVMrd3BKQT09
CALL FOR PAPERS
This event is linked to several Special Issues edited by the CNSteam and collaborators:
BRAINHACK PROGRAMME
DAY 1, 22nd March: NEW AVENUES to language: GENETICS, VR & AI
Venue: Maria Montessori Room 3.650
Breakout room: 4.610
09:00 – 09:30 Complimentary Breakfast
09:30 – 09:45 Welcome (Stephanie Forkel)
09:45 – 10:15 2 Ignite sessions: Language and Genetics - Part 1 (Simon Fisher’s team)
10:15 – 10:45 Ignite: Welcome to the future: AI & humanoids (Rinus Verdonschot & Furhat)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Tentative Project pitches → submit your work to a special issues
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Free slots are available!! Come and pitch your project/ research idea/ call for help
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CityLab Projects (Alan Sanfey)
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Genetics & white matter (Simon Fisher/ Barbara Molz/ Stephanie Forkel)
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Longitudinal measures of temporal lobe gradients (Marius Braunsdorf)
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Reliability of cortical thickness measures (Daniel Sharoh)
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Functional White matter language atlas (Lilit Dulyan/ Stephanie Forkel / Atsuko Takashima)
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TMS & Neuroimaging (Ann-Katrin Ohlerth)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:30 Ignite: How do our hands talk and interact: from brains to behaviour (Asli Ozyurek)
13:30 - 17:00 Project Work
17:30 Social drinks at Cultuurcafe
DAY 2, 23rd March: ANATOMY
09:00 – 09:30 Complimentary Breakfast
09:30 – 10:00 Ignite: Mind the gaps - the fabric of cognition (Valentina Pacella)
10:00 – 10:30 Ignite: Functional layers of language areas (Daniel Sharoh)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Ignite: The talking brain electrified (Vitoria Piai)
11:30 – 13:00 Tour of the Anatomy Museum (limited spaces)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Ignite: Distinct causes of alteration in principles of structural and functional human brain organisation (Giacomo Bignardi)
14:30 – 15:30 Circulate through the skills labs (15min each)
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Genetics - polygenic risk score for neuroimaging (Barbara Molz/ Sourena Soheili-Nezhad)
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Evolution - Principles of comparative neuroimaging (Marius Braunsdorf)
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UMAP - Principles of dimension reduction algorithms (Valentina Pacella)
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Baby EEG - Principles of electrophysiology (Marlene Meyer)
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Tractography - Principles of virtual white matter dissections (Lilit Dulyan)
15:30 – 17:00 Project Work (with Pizza and drinks)
19:00 - 21:00 Theater Hall C Movie Night: My love affair with the brain - open to everyone
DAY 3, 24th March: DEVELOPMENT & EVOLUTION
Venue: Maria Montessori Room 3.650
Breakout room: 3.3640
09:00 – 09:30 Complimentary Breakfast
09:30 – 10:00 Ignite: How human brains learn language (Caroline Rowland)
10:00 - 10:30 Ignite: Language evolution from monkeys to humans (Marius Braunsdorf)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Ignite: Language and Genetics - Part 2 (Barbara Molz)
11:30 - 12:00 Project Work
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:30 Ignite: The Disconnectome and language pathologies (Michel Thiebaut de Schotten)
13:30 – 16:00 Project Work
16:00 - 17:00 Project presentations
17:00 - 17:15 Wrap up
The event is kindly sponsored by

Call opening soon:
Language/Neuro papers
'Language systems'
@ Brain Structure and Function
Brain parcellation papers
'Brain Parcellations and their Relationship to Function'
@ Brain Structure and Function
Comparative neuroscience papers
'Brain Evolution'
@ CommsBio