Winter 2012 Workshop
Topic: The Neurobiology of Consciousness
Organizers: Ralph Greenspan and Pat Churchland
- Session 1: Christof Koch (Allen Institute)
- Session 2: Jean-Pierre Changeux (Collège de France)
- Session 3: R. Greenspan (UCSD)
- Session 4: Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute)
- Session 5: Bud Craig (Bud Craig)
Winter 2011 Workshop
Topic: Genes and Human Brains: Architecture and Cognition
Organizers: Ralph Greenspan and Eric Halgren
- Session 1: Primer on human gene mapping and its associated statistics - N. Schork (TSRI)
- Session 2: Genes and autism - D. Geschwind (UCLA)
- Session 3: Human gene mapping and its frustrations - J. Flint (Wellcome Trust Genome Ctr., UK)
- Session 4: Brain architecture - A. Dale
- Session 5: Development - T. Jernigan, S. Bielas
- Session 6: Stem cells and psychiatric disease - A. Muotri
- Session 7: Williams Syndrome - U. Bellugi, R. Greenspan
Spring 2005 Workshop
Topic: Evolution of the Brain
Organizers: Marty Sereno and Harvey Karten
- Session 1: Overview of vertebrate brain evolution - M. Sereno
- Session 2: Evolution of neocortex - M. Sereno
- Session 3: Avian/mammalian deep homologies in cortical circuitry - H. Karten
Winter 2005 Workshop
Topic: Evolution of Communication
Organizers: Ralph Greenspan and Tim Gentner
- Session 1: Insect communication, physiology and behavior - R. Greenspan
- Session 2: Insect communication, genetics and species variation - R. Greenspan
- Session 3: Birdsong - T. Gentner
- Session 4: Amphibian communication, anatomy and behavior - N. Spitzer
Fall 2004 Workshop
Topic: Genes and Language
Organizers: Ralph Greenspan and Jeff Elman
- Session 1: Genetics - what does it mean to say "it's genetic"? - R. Greenspan
- Session 2: Basic Linguistics - is language biologically "special"? - J. Elman
- Session 3: Developmental and hereditary disorders of language - clues to its biology. - J. Elman
- Session 4: Biological basis for communication in non-human species - R. Greenspan