JEDI MIND Wins IARPA’s INSTINCT Challenge WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), announced today the winner of its first public challenge contest, Investigating Novel Statistical Techniques to Identify Neurophysiological Correlates of Trustworthiness (INSTINCT). Troy Lau and Scott Kuzdeba’s winning solution, “JEDI MIND,” […]
BU’s Gloria Waters, Michael Hasselmo, and Timothy Gardner were among the academic, industry, and philanthropic leaders invited to the White House yesterday for a conference announcing stepped-up efforts to advance the president’s ambitious BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Neurotechnologies) Initiative. Waters, University vice president and associate provost for research, Hasselmo, a College of Arts & […]
BU Neuroscientists Sam Ling, Xue Han and Tyler Perrachione featured on the WBUR special series “Brain Matters”
Congratulations to Samantha Michalka of the Somers Lab for winning first prize and Maripierre Payen Surpris of the Chen lab for second prize representing Graduate Program for Neuroscience at the MED campus!
League of Denial-The NFL’s Concussion Crisis
Dr. Shelley Russek will represent GPN as a member of the Committee on Neuroscience Departments and Programs (CNDP) for the Society for Neuroscience. The mission of the CNDP is to enhance the value SfN provides to its individual and Institutional Program (IP) members (neuroscience departments and programs) through programs and initiatives that offer opportunities for professional […]
Interesting article about the Barbas Neural Systems Lab in Bostoniaextra
Diving Bell flyer Science on Screen Presents: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly with cognitive and computational neuroscientist Frank Guenther April 22 at 7:00 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline In 1995, at age 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the successful and charismatic editor of Elle France magazine, suffered a massive stroke that left him with a rare condition […]