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SUMMARY:Darren Schreiber\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Center for Neuropolitics for their lecture with Darren Schreiber\, PhD\, JD\, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeterin. \nGuess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 2024? How Partisan Identity Politics is Taking Over America \nThe past twenty years have demonstrated the role of biology in our political predispositions\, with evidence from twin studies\, genetics\, and brain imaging. Recent trends have highlighted political polarization on an emotional\, identity-driven level where the other side is seens as a hated enemy. The consequences have ranged from increasing dissatisfaction with democracy to a rise in violent extremism.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/darren-schreiber-phd/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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SUMMARY:Daeyeol Lee\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Daeyeol Lee\, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of neuroscience\, psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \nPlaying Games in the Brain \n \nDescription: \nSocial animals face the challenging task of predicting the actions of others. Game theory formalizes the decision making in social settings\, and reinforcement learning theories can be applied to understand the cognitive processes involved in iterative social interactions. In this talk\, I will review the neural correlates of such iterative learning in primate prefrontal cortex during simple competitive games\, such as the rock-paper-scissors\, as well as a more cognitively complex board game\, such as the 4-in-a-row. The results from these experiments demonstrate the advantage of formal games in deciphering the neurocomputational mechanisms of decision making and planning.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/daeyeol-lee-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T110000
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SUMMARY:2024 CNLM Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for the 2024 CNLM Awards Ceremony. \nThe CNLM offers awards to exceptional postdoctoral researchers\, graduate trainees\, undergraduates students\, faculty\, and alumni.  Student and trainee awardees will be invited to present their work in brief Elevator Pitch format to the UCI academic community and the public at our annual CNLM Awards Ceremony. \n \nFor more information\, please visit: https://cnlm.uci.edu/awards/
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/2024-cnlm-award-ceremony/
LOCATION:Irvine Improv\, 527 Spectrum Center Dr\, 527 Spectrum Center Dr\, 92618\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T110000
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SUMMARY:Yin Shen\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping for their lecture with Yin Shen\, PhD\, Associate Professor in Neurology Weill Institute for Neurosciences at the University of California\, San Francisco. 
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/yin-shen-phd/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom\, 419 Physical Sciences Quad\, Irvine\, 92697\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T110000
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SUMMARY:Samantha Butler\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:“Revisiting the role(s) of netrin1 in the establishment of spinal cord circuitry.” \nThe department of Developmental and Cell Biology is hosting Dr Samantha Butler in their weekly seminar series. Dr Butler is the Eleanor I. Leslie Chair in Pioneering Brain Research; a professor in the UCLA Department of Neurobiology as well as the vice chair for Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion; a member of the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research\, the Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center\, and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/samantha-butler-phd/
LOCATION:4201 Natural Sciences II\, Irvine\, CA 92697\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Students
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SUMMARY:Lindsay Schwarz\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping for their lecture with Lindsay Schwarz\, PhD\, Assistant Faculty at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital \n“Uncovering Diversity in Norepinephrine Neural Circuits”
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/lindsay-schwarz-phd/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom\, 419 Physical Sciences Quad\, Irvine\, 92697\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brad Postle\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium Series \nControlling the Contents of Visual Working Memory \nJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Brad Postle\, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \n \nDescription: \nTwo hallmarks of working memory are flexibility — ability to mentally juggle multiple pieces of information\, prioritizing what’s relevant for the task immediately at hand while also keeping potentially important but currently unprioritized information in an accessible state — and updateability — allowing for the rapid replacement of the no-longer-needed with the newly relevant. This talk will explore these two aspects of the control of working memory at the levels of algorithmic operation and neural implementation. Specifically\, although parsimony holds that “deprioritization” and “removal” might be accomplished via the same mechanism\, I will draw on neuroimaging (EEG and fMRI)\, computational (RNN\, RL)\, and behavioral data to argue for two distinct\, novel\, processes for controlling the contents of WM: the transformation of representational geometries as a function of priority; and the top-down hijacking of mechanisms of adaptation to accomplish active removal. This work may generalize to broader questions\, such as of how we control the moment-to-moment contents of conscious awareness\, and how we diagnose and treat disorders of thought.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/brad-postle-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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SUMMARY:Mario Penzo\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Conte Center for their seminar with Mario Penzo\, PhD\, Senior Investigator and Chief of the Unit on the Neurobiology of Affective Memory at the  Memory National Institute of Mental Health \nThe Midline Thalamus and the Control of Goal-Oriented Behaviors \nThe Seminar will be accessible in-person or Telecast via Zoom (pass: 764583)
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/mario-penzo-phd/
LOCATION:Plumwood House\, 1003 Health Sciences Rd\, Irvine\, CA 92617\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T150000
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SUMMARY:EpiCenter Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 EpiCenter Symposium will celebrate the 20th year of the NIH T32 program in epilepsy research. Talks will feature speakers working to solve important problems related to epilepsy in the laboratory\, the clinic and the community.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/epicenter-symposium/
LOCATION:Sue Gross Auditorium\, 854 Health Sciences Rd\, Irvine\, 92617\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T130000
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SUMMARY:David Poeppel\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Cognitive Sciences will host guest speaker Dr. David Poeppel\, a Professor in the Department of Psychology from the Ernst Struengmann Institute for Neuroscience & New York University. \nSpeech is special and language is structured \nI discuss two (older but fun and straightforward) experiments that focus on general questions about the cognitive science and neural implementation of speech and language. I come to (currently) unpopular conclusions about both domains. Based on a first set of experiments\, using fMRI and exploiting the temporal statistics of speech\, I argue for the existence of a speech-specific processing stage that implicates a particularneuronal substrate that has the appropriate sensitivity and selectivity for speech. Based on a second set of experiments\, using MEG\, I outline neural mechanisms that can form the basis for more abstract\, structural processing. The results demonstrate that\, during listening to connected speech\, cortical activity at different time scales is entrained concurrently to track the time course of linguistic structures at different hierarchical levels. The results demonstrate constituent-driven\, internal construction of hierarchical linguistic structure via entrainment of hierarchical cortical dynamics. The conclusions — that speech is special and language structure-driven — provide (by now old) neurobiological provocations to the prevailing view that speech perception is ‘mere’ hearing and that language comprehension is ‘mere’ statistics.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/david-poeppel-ph-d/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom\, CA
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