The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition

Cutting-edge research in neuroscience presented by leading international scientists

Here you will find information about upcoming events in the Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition series of the Max Planck Institute of Empirical Aesthetics.

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Catherine Tallon-Baudry: Subjective Experience and the Brain–Viscera Dialogue

Prof. Dr. Catherine Tallon-Baudry,  Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

The online application for this event is Zoom Webinar. You can join the lecture by using this link.

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CANCELLED: The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition
with Prof. Kia Nobre, PhD: Temporal anticipation in cognition

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Kia Nobre, PhD is the Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford 

Please note that this lecture is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2020.

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Judit Gervain
Neural oscillations in speech perception early in life: the role of prenatal and postnatal experience

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Dr. Judit Gervain, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Uni­ver­sité Paris Descartes

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Nikolaus Kriegeskorte:
Cognitive computational neuroscience of vision

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of Cognitive Imaging; Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute

Location: Room 416-419

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Charan Ranganath:
Episodic Memory: It's time to get real

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Charan Ranganath is the Director of the Dynamic Memory Lab, UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, UC Davis

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Alexander Todorov:
Modeling Social Perception of Faces

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Todorov, Professor, Associate Chair,  Department of Psychology, Princeton University

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz:
The human infant brain: A neural architecture able to learn language

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/I2BM, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Christian Doeller
Structuring experience in cognitive spaces

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Christian Doeller, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (Department of Psychology) and at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, in Trondheim / Norway

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Nikolai Axmacher:
Engram reinstatement and the role of representational format

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher, Research Department of Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Uta Noppeney
How the brain forms a representation of the world across the senses

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Uta Noppeney, PhD, Chair in Computational Neuroscience, University of Birmingham, School of Psychology

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Giulio Tononi:
Sleep: A window on consciousness

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Giulio Tononi, PhD, is Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Erich Schröger:
From Fechner's Psychophysics to Cognitive Neuroscience: a case for mental models

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Erich Schröger, Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics, Leipzig University and Professor for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University

Location: Room 417-419, 4th floor

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Uri Hasson:
Time regained: how the brain accumulates and communicates memories as life unfolds over time?

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Uri Hasson, Psychology department and the Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Leon Deouell
Seeing the Big Picture: Hierarchy of Automatic Prediction

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Professor Leon Y. Deouell, Jack H. Skirball chair in brain research, Department of Psychology, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for brain research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Nicholas Turk-Browne
Rethinking memory systems for statistical learning

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Professor Nicholas Turk-Browne, Department of Psychology, Yale University

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with William Idsardi
How is Phonology different (from Syntax)?

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Professor William J. Idsardi, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland

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The Westend Lectures on Brain and Cognition with Andreas Engel:
Role of intrinsic and extrinsic coupling in cognition

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

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