Thursday, December 5, 2013

Louis  Reichardt (UCSF/Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) discusses his techniques driven neuroscience, and his thoughts on moving heading the SFAR).

Duration: 35 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gerard Beaudoin (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Gary Gaufo (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Annie Lin (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Lena Ting (Georgia Tech/ Emory) discusses her biomechanical approach for understanding neural control of motor systems.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA)

acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Ellen Lau (University of Maryland) discusses the field of neurolinguistics,  and its approach to neural mechanisms of language.  The group discusses the Wernicke-Geschwind model, and some cognitive scientists' resistance to the idea of prediction as a driving force in language.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Ani Patel (Tufts University) discusses the neuroscience of music, and its overlap with language processing networks.  He describes his OPERA  hypothesis, that describes some of the conditions for plasticity in the brain in response to musical training.

Duration: 36 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Bharath Chandrasekaran (Asst Prof, UT Austin)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Eric Fortune (NJIT) discusses the neural bases of cooperative behavior in duetting songbird pairs.

Duration: 50 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Cameron  McIntyre (Case Western Reserve) discusses the idea of being able to  "dose" deep brain stimulation (DBS), and how it is now being used to treat neuropsychiatric disorders like depression.

Duration: 41 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music.

Daniel Ansari (University of Western Ontario) discusses the new field of Mind,  Brain and Education (sometimes called Neuroeducation) which seeks to bring evidence based practice and empirical calculation into the field of education research and practice.  He also discusses his work on the mathematical organization of the brain.

Duration: 46 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

James Bower (Professor, UTHSCSA)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Sam Pfaff (HHMI, Salk Institute) discusses the heterogeneity of spinal interneurons, vertebrate neural development, and central pattern generators.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gerard Beaudoin III (Postdoc, UTSA)

Gary Gaufo (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.