Agenda
March 2023
April 2023
B&C Tuesday Seminar “Can we change depressive beliefs ? The cognitive effects of ketamine in patients with treatment resistant depression”
Abstract :Theories of depression propose that the disease is maintained by negative biases in information processing that give rise to a triad of...
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B&C Tuesday Seminar «Invasive neurophysiology to elucidate the neural correlates of speech»
Abstract : Speech is so central to the human experience that impairments of communication through speech are among the most devastating...
Find out more »B&C Tuesday Seminar “Investigating semantics above and beyond language: a clinical and cognitive neuroscience approach”
Abstract :The ability to build, store, and manipulate semantic representations lies at the core of all our (inter)actions. Combining evidence from ...
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B&C Tuesday Seminar “Sleep deprivation and the human brain: from brain physiology to cognition”
Abstract : Sleep strongly affects synaptic strength, making it critical for cognition, especially learning and memory formation. Whether and how...
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November 2023
B&C Tuesday Seminar “Hi-Fi (f)MRI: a high-resolution, fast-sampling MRI framework in humans for eye and brain imaging at 3T on humans. “
Abstract : In the fields of medical diagnostics and cognitive neuroscience, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and functional magnetic resonance...
Find out more »B&C Tuesday Seminar “Serial dependence in brain and behavior”
Abstract : The current content of perception is determined both by current and past stimuli. Indeed, recent perceptual history influences what we...
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B&C Tuesday Seminar “System Models of Brain-Like Intelligence”
Abstract : Research in the brain and cognitive sciences attempts to uncover the neural mechanisms underlying intelligent behavior. Due to the...
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B&C Tuesday Seminar “Magnetoencephalography now and how to move forward”
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) provides a unique combination of spatial and temporal resolution for studying the human brain in action. While MEG...
Find out more »B&C Tuesday Seminar “How do our thoughts, imaginations and intentions influence sleep ?”
Sleep, particularly slow-wave sleep (SWS), is critical for optimal cognitive functioning and health. Sleep disturbances are highly frequent in our ...
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B&C Tuesday Seminar “A cross-species approach to the neural bases of empathy and prosociality”
How does our brain make us feel what others feel? How does it motivate us to help others? We will start by showing that while witnessing the...
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