Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science

The CogSci 2011 Meeting in Boston

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The Science Reader

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NIPS at 25 

NIPS Panel Terry Sejnowski John Platt Hanna Wallach Michael Mozer		Michael Mozer University of Colorado, Boulder		John Platt Microsoft Research		Hanna Wallach University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation at 25 page can be found here.

CogSci 2011 

Robots and the Illusion of Free Will Conversation with Judea Pearl, Rumelhart Prize Winner		Elissa Newport University of Rochester		Arthur Markman University of Texas		Chris Eliasmith University of Waterloo

CogSci 2011 Panel Two Madeleine Keehner Neil Burgess Mary Hegarty		Michael Tomasello Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany - Heineken Prize Winner		Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University, Governing Board - Cognitive Science Society		Ray Jackendoff Tufts University

CogSci 2011 Panel One Eric Mandelbaum Michael Frank Edward Vul		David Poeppel New York University		Rochel Gelman Rutgers University		Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

More conversations, lectures and symposia from Cogsci 2011.

Stem Cell Research & Aging: A Glenn Foundation Workshop 

Stem Cell Research & Aging Panel One Mark Collins Stephanie Lederman Michael West		Derrick Rossi Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston		Stem Cell Research & Aging Panel Two Heinrich Jasper Kevin Lee Evan Snyder Christi Walter		Norman Sharpless University of North Carolina

More interviews at the Stem Cell Research & Aging page.

International Mind, Brain, and Education Society 2011 

IMBES Panel One Tamar Katzir Joanna Christodoulou Mary Helen Immordino-Yang		Helen Neville University of Oregon		Daniel Ansari University of Western Ontario		David B. Daniel James Madison University

More interviews at the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society 2011 page.

One Mind for Research Forum 

Imagining the Future: A 10-Year Plan for Neuroscience Steve Hyman Harvard University		Exceptional Opportunities in Translational Neuroscience Francis S. Collins Director; National Institutes of Health, HHS		The Blasted Brain: Traumatic Brain Injury on the Battlefield Kevin Kit Parker Harvard University		Call to Action Hon. Patrick Kennedy co-chair, One Mind for Research

Karl Deisseroth Stanford University		Thomas Insel Director, National Institute of Mental Health		Helen S. Mayberg Emory University		Story Landis and Nora Volkow Directors, National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke and National Institute on Drug Abuse

More sessions and one-on-one interviews on the One Mind for Research Forum page. Funding for filming was provided by the Dana Foundation, a One Mind for Research partner organization.

Music, Science & Medicine at the New York Academy of Sciences 

The Role of Auditory Processing in Language Development and Disorders Paula Tallal Rutgers University		Neural syntax: what does music offer to neuroscience (and vice versa) Gyorgy Buzsáki Rutgers University		The Science In Clinical Music: Questions Needing Answers Dorita S. Berger The Music Therapy Clinic		Functional Brain Organization in Relation to Music Cognition & Emotion Mark Jude Tramo David Geffen School of Medicine & Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA

Clancy Blair Steinhardt School, NYU		Nina Kraus Northwestern University		Daniela Schiller Mount Sinai School of Medicine		Joseph LeDoux New York University

More videos on the Music, Science and Medicine page.

Newark Workshop on Music, Brain and Education 

Music for the Development of Auditory Skills: Impact on Education Nina Kraus, Keynote Northwestern University		Influences of musical training on language processing and executive functioning in typical and atypical developing children Nadine Gaab, Keynote Harvard School of Medicine		The gamelan project: a study of synchrony and attention Alex Khalil UC, San Diego		Neural Mechanisms of Beat Perception John Iversen The Neuroscience Institute

More videos on the Newark Workshop on Music, Brain and Education page.

SuperEducators and SuperAgers - NYC, January 2011

Nir Barzilai and Ana Maria Cuervo Albert Einstein College of Medicine		John Steele, Heather McKellar and Daniel Gilmer		Meghan Groome The New York Academy of Sciences		Ellis Rubinstein President and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences

The Great Debate - What is Life? 

What is Life? Panel discussion		Richard Dawkins Oxford University (introduction by Roger Bingham)		Sidney Altman Yale University		Lee Hartwell Arizona State University

Chris McKay NASA Ames Research Center		J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute		Paul Davies Arizona State University		Lawrence Krauss Arizona State University

The Great Debate: Can Science Tell Us Right from Wrong? 

The Great Debate Panel		Sam Harris Project Reason		Patricia Churchland UC San Diego		Peter Singer Princeton University

Lawrence Krauss Arizona State University		Simon Blackburn University of Cambridge		Steven Pinker Harvard University

Special thanks to The National Science Foundation, The Glenn Foundation, The ResMed Foundation, The Dana Foundation, The Zeps Family, Robert and Mary Jane Engman, Ernest W. Moody, and Richard C. Atkinson.