The Lipschultz Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is a multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to understanding the neural circuit mechanisms of higher cognitive function. The ultimate goal of our research is to apply what we learn to the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders characterized by cognitive dysfunction.

 

On September 17th, 2024, we invite cognitive neuroscientists from across the New York area to a free day-long symposium at the Icahn School of Medicine. The aim of the symposium is to showcase the cutting-edge research being conducted across the city and surrounding area and to build a closer community for cognitive neuroscience in the greater New York city area.

 

Looking forward to seeing you in September!

Hosts

Peter Rudebeck, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai

Erin L Rich, MD, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai

Keynotes

Kia Nobre
Professor
Director of the WTI Center for Cognition and Behavior, Wu Tsai Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University

Winrich Freiwald
Eugene W. Chinery Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Rockefeller University

Speakers

Tim Buschman
Princeton University

Jacqueline Gottlieb
Columbia University

Xiaosi Gu
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Joshua Jacobs
Columbia University

Roozbeh Kiani
New York University

Anna Konova
Rutgers

Marcello Mattar
New York University

Vince McGinty
Rutgers

Anirvan Nandy
Yale

Ignacio Saez
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Cristina Savin
New York University

Evan Schaffer
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

AGENDA

8:45 – 9:00 am

Welcome

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9:00 – 10:30 am | Memory – Session discussant – Daniela Schiller

9 – 9:40 am | Keynote – Kia Nobre: “TBC”

9:45 – 10:05 am | Josh Jacobs: “Electrophysiological correlates of memory encoding from direct human brain recordings”

10:10 – 10:30 am | Tim Buschmann: “Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces”

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10:30 – 11 am | Coffee break 

 

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9:05 – 9:20 am | Reward Systems – Session discussant – David Zald

11 – 11:20 am | Jacquie Gotlieb: “Top-down attention control: an information-theoretic perspective”

11:25 – 11:45am | Ignacio Saez:“Risky waves: Neurophysiological basis of decision-making under uncertainty in the human brain“

11:50 am – 12:10 pm | Vince McGinty: “Behavioral read-out from population value signals in primate orbitofrontal cortex“

12:15 – 12:35 pm | Anna Konova: “Risk, value, and addiction“

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12:35 – 2pm | Lunch break 

 

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2 – 3:30 pm | Social cognition – Session discussant – Brian Russ

2 – 2:40 pm | Winrich Freiwald: “From Face Recognition to Social Cognition“

2:45 – 3:05 pm | Xiaosi Gu: “Cellular, molecular, and circuit computations underlying social exchange“

3:10 – 3:30 pm | Anirvan Nandy: “Behavioral and Neural dynamics of cooperation in marmoset dyads“

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3:30 – 4 pm | Coffee break 

 

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4 – 5:30 pm | Computational approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience – Session discussant – Angela Radulescu

4 – 4:20 pm | Roozbeh Kiani: “Representation Geometry of Perceptual Decisions“

4:25 – 4:45 pm | Evan Schaffer: “Stable geometry is inevitable in drifting neural representations”

4:50 – 5:10 pm | Cristina Savin: “Generating hypotheses for circuit level substrates of complex behavior“

5:15 – 5:35 pm | Marcelo Mattar: “Modeling human planning and hippocampal replay with an RNN that thinks“

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