Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Mini-symposium: Analysis of functional maps in the human brain in health and disease
25 February 2013
Speakers: Pim van Dijk (Groningen), Serge Dumoulin (Utrecht),
Rainer Goebel (Maastricht), Mark W. Greenlee (Regensburg),
Koen V. Haak (Minneapolis), Tony Morland (York)
Time: 8.30-11.30 hrs
Location: Academiegebouw Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Room A7
The mini-symposium is held in connection with the PhD graduation of Koen V. Haak at 12.45 hrs.
Participation is free, but registration is required if you want to join us for lunch.
Register by sending an
email to Fenna Fonck-Pot (f.fonck@umcg.nl).
Contact:
Frans W. Cornelissen,
Laboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, UMCG
f.w.cornelissen@umcg.nl, 050-3612505 (secr. Ophthalmology)
Lecture: Neuroimaging and the future of biological psychiatry
February 6, 2013
Speaker: Professor David Linden, MD, PhD (University of Bangor, Wales, UK)
Time: 14.00h
Room 3111.0002 (building Neuroimaging Centre, Antonius Deusinglaan 2)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Nijmegen-Maastricht symposium on Human Brain Imaging
Donders Institute
Date: March 6, 2013
Location: Stadsschouwburg Nijmegen, Keizer Karelplein 32h, 6511 NH Nijmegen
More information http://www.ru.nl/donders/agenda-news/nijmegen-maastricht/
Heymans colloquium
The Simultaneous Type/ Serial Token Model of temporal attention, working memory encoding and Conscious Perception, with applications in lie detection and brain-computer interaction.
Lecturer: Prof. Howard Bowman (Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and
Lecturer: Prof. Howard Bowman (Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and
Cognitive Systems University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
Date: January 23, 2013
Time: 14.00-15.00 hrs
Location: Room M0074, Munting Building
The 2nd Groningen Lecture in human Movement Science (GLMS)
Thursday the 17th of January from 13-14 in the Keuningzaal.
The speaker will be Robert Gray from the University of Birmingham
The speaker will be Robert Gray from the University of Birmingham
(UK).
Collisions: From perception to action to application
Everyday all around us people perform seemingly impossible feats of visual-motor coordination. Highway drivers scanning the road for other vehicles, road signs and pedestrians must react to a lead car slamming on their brakes within a split second to avoid a collision. Military pilots travelling at 60 m/s must land their plane on a 300 m long aircraft carrier bouncing around in choppy seas. Professional baseball batters routinely generate contact between a cylindrical 7cm diameter bat and a spherical 8 cm diameter ball even though the ball travels the distance from the mound to the plate in less than half a second. In this presentation, I will discuss research examining the perceptual-motor control strategies
used to perform these incredible acts. I will then consider how this knowledge can be applied to improve performance and reduce errors in these domains.
Everyday all around us people perform seemingly impossible feats of visual-motor coordination. Highway drivers scanning the road for other vehicles, road signs and pedestrians must react to a lead car slamming on their brakes within a split second to avoid a collision. Military pilots travelling at 60 m/s must land their plane on a 300 m long aircraft carrier bouncing around in choppy seas. Professional baseball batters routinely generate contact between a cylindrical 7cm diameter bat and a spherical 8 cm diameter ball even though the ball travels the distance from the mound to the plate in less than half a second. In this presentation, I will discuss research examining the perceptual-motor control strategies
used to perform these incredible acts. I will then consider how this knowledge can be applied to improve performance and reduce errors in these domains.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Eurosonic 9-12 January
Time to get out of the lab and enjoy some music! If you don't have a ticket there is free side program to explore.
The Senior Brain
LECTURER
prof. dr. André Aleman
prof. dr. André Aleman
(Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen; and Department of Psychology, University of Groningen)
TITLE
The Senior Brain
DATE & TIME
Thursday, 17 January 2013, 15.00 - 16.00 hrs
LOCATION
0161 Munting building, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, Groningen
ABSTRACT
Almost anyone aged over fifty will occasionally worry about signs of aging. The horror is not just of failing health. Worst of all is the prospect of a decline in memory and concentration, or in the speed and flexibility of thought, of no longer being able to follow everything properly. Even back in the fourth century BC, Greek philosopher Plato wrote that the diminution of bodily strength with age is accompanied by a reduction in mental capacity. At an advanced age a person is no more capable of learning a great deal than of running at great speed. Was Plato right? Which mental capacities do in fact decline with age? When does deterioration set in? How fast does it go? And which abilities are spared or may even improve? These questions will be briefly addressed in this talk, with reference to recent findings. Changes in brain structure and function during aging will be highlighted and strategies for minimizing decline will be discussed.
TITLE
The Senior Brain
DATE & TIME
Thursday, 17 January 2013, 15.00 - 16.00 hrs
LOCATION
0161 Munting building, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, Groningen
ABSTRACT
Almost anyone aged over fifty will occasionally worry about signs of aging. The horror is not just of failing health. Worst of all is the prospect of a decline in memory and concentration, or in the speed and flexibility of thought, of no longer being able to follow everything properly. Even back in the fourth century BC, Greek philosopher Plato wrote that the diminution of bodily strength with age is accompanied by a reduction in mental capacity. At an advanced age a person is no more capable of learning a great deal than of running at great speed. Was Plato right? Which mental capacities do in fact decline with age? When does deterioration set in? How fast does it go? And which abilities are spared or may even improve? These questions will be briefly addressed in this talk, with reference to recent findings. Changes in brain structure and function during aging will be highlighted and strategies for minimizing decline will be discussed.
The Auditory Seminars - January
***** Bonus seminar: "Enhanced temporal coding in auditory prostheses can
lead to improved speech perception"
Lecturer: Prof. Jan Wouters (Exp. Otorhinolaryngology, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven)
Date: January 8, 2012
Time: 15:00 hrs
Location: UMCG Onderwijscentrum, room 15
More information: see attachment
***** "Structural similarities in language and music"
Lecturer: Dr. Dicky Gilbers (Department of Linguistics, University of
Groningen)
Date: January 11, 2012
Time: 14:00 hrs
Location: UMCG Onderwijscentrum, room 15
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