2014 Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Research Conference & Gordon Research Semin

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求部分支持第三届戈登研究会议（GRC）的认知神经生物学及其相关的戈登研究研讨会（GRS）的学员。GRC背后的驱动力是分子，细胞电路和系统神经科学的快速融合发现，并通过细胞靶向，成像，计算和脑机接口的技术发展得到增强。因此，对神经元回路和动力学、神经生理过程和支撑认知功能的计算原理的描述迅速发展。该研究中心的总体目标是促进相关分析层面以及实证科学家、理论家和技术开发专家之间的沟通与合作，强调最新的研究结果。在GRC之前举行的相关GRS旨在为博士和博士后学员提供交流他们最新研究结果和观点的机会，并为他们更深入地参与紧随其后的家长GRC做好准备。 沿着传统“核心”领域的最新发现，以及总统大脑倡议的主题演讲（见下），正式会议将探讨几个新的主题，包括：1）神经解剖学和2）大脑中认知回路的协调，3）运动认知和脑机接口，4）音乐和语言，5）学习和可塑性。该计划是高度跨学科的，将人类和非人类动物的行为，神经成像和电生理技术与计算方法结合在一起，阐述实证研究结果并构建现实模型，以代表认知操作的发展情况并指导未来的实验。该计划还强调了新颖的，最先进的实验和理论方法，这些方法有望定义认知的基本原则，并将其扩展到改善脑功能障碍的治疗。会议的形式促进了来自不同观点和分析水平的研究人员和学员之间的密切互动，特别是实验学家和理论家之间的互动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for the third Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on the Neurobiology of Cognition and for its associated Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for trainees. The driving force behind the GRC is the rapid pace of convergent findings in molecular, cellular circuit and systems Neuroscience, augmented by technical developments in cell-targeting, imaging, computing and brain-machine interfaces. As a result, there are rapidly evolving descriptions of neuronal circuits and dynamics, neurophysiological processes and computational principles that underpin cognitive functions. The overarching goal of this GRC is to promote communication and collaboration across relevant levels of analysis and among empirical scientists, theoreticians and technical development specialists, emphasizing the most recent findings. The associated GRS, held just prior to the GRC, is designed to provide opportunities for doctoral and post-doctoral trainees to communicate their most recent findings and perspectives, and to prepare them for more in-depth participation in the parent GRC that immediately follows. Along with recent findings in traditional "core" areas, and a keynote on the presidential BRAIN initiative (below), formal sessions will explore several new themes, including: 1) the neuroanatomical and 2) coordination of cognitive circuits in the brain, 3) motor cognition and brain-computer interfaces, 4) music and language, and 5) learning and plasticity. The program is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together behavioral, neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques in humans and non-human animals with computational approaches that explicate empirical findings and construct realistic models to represent the developing picture of cognitive operations and guide future experimentation. The program also underscores novel, state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical approaches that promise to define fundamental principles of cognition, and to extend these to improved treatment of brain dysfunction. The format of the meeting promotes intensive interactions among investigators and trainees from different perspectives and analytic levels, and in particular, between experimentalists and theorists.