8 April 2009, Annual CSCA symposium 2009

This symposium also marks the start of a new initiative to boost Cognitive Science research at the University of Amsterdam. Following the designation of Cognition as a key research area of the UvA, a small committee of researchers from the CSCA was asked to draw up a proposal to promote collaborative research between groups of different institutes. One of the key elements of the proposal is the establishment of a new institute where researchers from different disciplines will work together on a programme to resolve questions regarding the mechanisms underlying human (and animal) cognition. The new institute will be located near the Spinoza Center for Neuroimaging.

The report describing the proposal will be officially presented at the end of the CSCA Symposium. The symposium will consist of three invited lectures by prominent researchers from the institutes that participate in the CSCA.

Programme

14.30	Coffee and tea
15:00	Edward de Haan Opening
15:10	Henk-Jan Honing
Do newborn infants have a sense of rhythm?
15:40	Merel Kindt
Erasing the emotion of fearful memories
16:10	Damiaan Denys
Therapeutic applications of deep brain stimulation
16:40	Jeroen Raaijmakers
Presentation of the report "Bridging the gap between cognitive models and neuroscience: Proposal for a Research Program in Brain & Cognition"
17:00	Drinks

For more information, contact the organisers at info-mcs at uva.nl.

Please note that this conference is not the same as the similarly-titled "CSCA Symposium 'Neural Basis of Consciousness'" held on June 26th and described on the CSCA site at http://www.csca.nl/portal/site/csca/.