Fall 2008 CNS Colloquium Series

and

CELEST Science of Learning Seminar Series

CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS

AND

CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR LEARNING IN EDUCATION, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY (CELEST)

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

October 24, 2008

**Science of Learning Seminar Series ** joint talk with Center for Memory and Brain

Dreaming to change your mind: Physiological phenomena of REM sleep that serve synaptic plasticity

Gina Poe, University of Michigan

Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 12:00pm

Unraveling the codes hidden in neural spiking dynamics: Using point process models to encode and decode spike train data

Uri Eden, Boston University

November 7, 2008

**Science of Learning Seminar Series**

GABA circuit control of visual cortical plasticity

Takao Hensch, Harvard Medical School

November 14, 2008

**Science of Learning Seminar Series**

Serial learning in the monkey and the evolution of language

Herb Terrace, Columbia University

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 12:00pm

Cortical layers and their complementary organization: The long (layer 1) and the short (layer 2) of it

Kathleen Rockland, Riken Brain Science Institute

November 21, 2008

**Science of Learning Seminar Series**

Multiple decision making strategies in the brain: Integrating computational and experimental approaches

Nathaniel Daw, New York University

December 5, 2008

Performance comparisons of partial least-squares and RBF neural network infrasound event classifiers

Fredric Ham, Florida Institute of Technology

Unless otherwise noted seminars are on Fridays at 2:00 PM in the Auditorium, Room B02
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA

Refreshments after the lecture in Room B03

http://www.cns.bu.edu/events