Open Theme Meeting | Language & Communication

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

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

Free slots are available!! Come and pitch your project/ research idea/ call for help
CityLab Projects (Alan Sanfey)
Genetics & white matter (Simon Fisher/ Barbara Molz/ Stephanie Forkel)
Longitudinal measures of temporal lobe gradients (Marius Braunsdorf)
Reliability of cortical thickness measures (Daniel Sharoh)
Functional White matter language atlas (Lilit Dulyan/ Stephanie Forkel / Atsuko Takashima)
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)

Genetics - polygenic risk score for neuroimaging (Barbara Molz/ Sourena Soheili-Nezhad)
Evolution - Principles of comparative neuroimaging (Marius Braunsdorf)
UMAP - Principles of dimension reduction algorithms (Valentina Pacella)
Baby EEG - Principles of electrophysiology (Marlene Meyer)
Tractography - Principles of virtual white matter dissections (Lilit Dulyan)