Videos - Mystery of the Brain

Sept. 16, 2019

Videos of Session 1: Visual perception

Semir Zeki

The parallel feed-forward inputs to the visual areas of the brain and their significance

J. Anthony Movshon

Brain mechanisms of visual form perception

Lynne Kiorpes

Development of global visual perception in macaque monkeys

Pieter R. Roelfsema

The visual brain’s cognitive blackboard

Videos of Session 2: Insights from whole-brain Imaging

Seiji Ogawa

Two features of BOLD MRI

Brian A. Wandell

Neural circuitry for vision and reading

Wim Vanduffel

Mesoscale functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3T in awake behaving monkeys

Gustavo Deco

Awakening: predicting external stimulation to force transitions between different brain states

Special addresses:

Boris Palmer, Mayor of Tübingen and Prof. Peter Thier, University of Tübingen

Nikos K. Logothetis

What is the brain state?

Sept. 17, 2019

Videos of Session 3: Sensation, memory and action

Ann M. Graybiel

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Basal Ganglia

Richard G. M. Morris

The making and keeping of memory

Videos of Session 4: Structural and functional brain networks

Eve Marder

Differential Resilience to Perturbation of Circuits with Similar Performance

Kathleen S. Rockland

Questions posed by the complex architecture of single axons

Roberto Caminiti

On the local nature of command functions in the parieto-frontal system

Sept. 18, 2019

Videos of Session 5: Sensorimotor control of complex behaviors

Ranulfo Romo

Subjective sensory experience and uncertainty of perceptual decisions: where and how in the brain?

Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer

Two brains in action: joint-action coding in the primate frontal and parietal cortex

Robert H. Wurtz

Corollary Discharge: A Multi-Purposed Anticipatory System Within the Brain

Michael E. Goldberg

Oculomotor proprioception and corollary discharge. Two strategies for spatially accurate movement

Videos of Session 6: Neural networks underlying sleep and cognition

Yang Dan

A motor theory of sleep-wake control

Giulio Tononi

Sleep and synaptic down-selection

Kevan A. C. Martin

What are all these wires for? Organizing Principles of Neocortical Circuits and Their Function

David A. McCormick

The Brain is a Precise Functional Connectivity Machine

György Buzsáki

Ways to think about the brain: Space, time and memory

Sept. 19, 2019

Videos of Session 7: Understanding brain development and disorders

Mu-Ming Poo

Non-human primate studies in neuroscience and biomedicine

Robert Desimone

A SHANK3 monkey model for autism

Charles Jennings

The brain’s sorrowful mysteries: the challenge of developing new treatments for neurological disease

Christina Dalla

Sex differences in neuropsychopharmacology: the antidepressant paradigm

Videos of Session 8: Frontiers in neuroprosthetics research

Alireza Gharabaghi

Rewiring corticospinal connectivity in the human brain

Hans Scherberger

Sensori-motor networks for grasping in the primate brain

Interviews

Interviews with the Speakers

We would like to thank the symposium participants for finding the additional time to tell us more about their research, as well as their opinion on the research opus of Nikos K. Logothetis.

Especially, we are grateful to Alison Abbott for moderating the interviews.

The organizers

Ann M. Graybiel

MIT Cambridge

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

University of Heidelberg

Eve Marder

Brandeis University

Gustavo Deco

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Yang Dan

University of California Berkely

Pieter R. Roelfsema

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

Christina Dalla

University of Athens

Richard G. M. Morris

University of Edinburgh

Ranulfo Romo

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México