David Moorman                          … Continue reading →

Focus on Neuroengineering Faculty and Post-docs are welcome Weds. Jan 23, 2019, 12:00 – 1:00 LSL 210N Pizza will be served There will be an organizational meeting for the Neurosciences Faculty Forum, which will meet  twice a month. The focus … Continue reading →

Joonkoo Park Psychological and Brain Sciences Sequence, hierarchy, and recursion: keys to numerical thinking I need your help (!) to better frame a grant proposal on the neurocognitive basis of numerical thinking. In particular, I plan to tackle the hypothesis … Continue reading →

Joseph Bergan Psychological and Brain Science Investigating circuit configurations that produce sexually dimorphic social behavior. I’ll discuss an ongoing project in our lab investigating how neural circuits are configured to support sex differences in social behavior, with a particular emphasis … Continue reading →

Karine Fenelon Assistant Professor Department of Biology “ Revisiting the role of glycinergic neurons of the caudal pontine reticular nucleus (PnC): are they important for sensory filtering?” I will be talking about one hypothesis we have in the laboratory, which … Continue reading →

Lisa Sanders Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Title: Rhythms in language processing: Do auditory rate detectors play a role in human communication? I’ll talk about some of our event-related potential research that shows the importance of temporal patterns for … Continue reading →

Luke Remage-Healey Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences https://www.umass.edu/pbs/people/luke-remage-healey “Walks like a duck: Conserved physiological principles in the songbird auditory cortex”   Luke says: “I will be talking about ideas I’m putting together for a new NSF grant. Our experiments … Continue reading →

Yao Li Department of Mathematics and Statistics http://people.math.umass.edu/~yaoli/ “Partial synchronization in neuronal network models” From Yao Li: “In this informal talk I will discuss the partial synchronization phenomenon appearing in many neuronal network models, which is a self-organization activity that … Continue reading →

Paul Katz will discuss a recent BRAIN proposal that his lab in collaboration with Vince Lyzinski in the Math Department and researchers at Harvard, Rosalind Franklin University, and Scripps Institute of Oceanography submitted. The proposal, title “A 5-dimensional connectomics approach … Continue reading →