Ski Conference 1: COSYNE 2012

workshop proposals for this year are due Sept 16th, but abstract submission is still a ways off (Nov 23rd).

more info here

Ski Conference 2: 37th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference

abstracts for hte meeting are due Sept 26th. notably, it has been moved from jackson hole to breckenridge.

more info here

Voice Cells in Temporal Cortex

Petkov and colleagues use fMRI to guide the sites for single neuron recordings and find that, like face cells (Tsao et al), there are dense populations of neurons responsive to vocalizations.

the full article in Current Biology is here

CARTA Symposia 'Uniquely-human features of the brain'

A CARTA Public Symposium entitled “Uniquely Human Features of the Brain” will be held Friday, October 7, 2011 from 1:00-5:30 p.m. in the DeHoffman Auditorium at the Salk Institute. Below is a list of the speakers and their talk titles.

If you wish to register for this free Symposium, please send an email to John Spotts.

Symposium Chairs:
Fred H. Gage, The Salk Institute
Todd M. Preuss, Emory University

Speakers:
Todd M. Preuss, Emory University, "The Burning Brain"
James Rilling, Emory University, "Human Brain Specializations Related to Language"
Wolfgang Enard, Max Planck Institute, "Exploring the Molecular Basis of Speech"
William Hopkins, Yerkes Primate Center, “Evolution of Behavioral and Brain Asymmetries”
Mike Gazzaniga, UC, Santa Barbara, “Hemispheric Specializations”
Katerina Semendeferi, UC, San Diego, “Human Specializations of the Social Brain”
Fred H. Gage, The Salk Institute, "Comparing Neurons Derived from Human and 'Great Ape' Stem Cells"
Chet C. Sherwood, George Washington University, “Human Specializations of Cortical Microstructure”
John Allman, Caltech, ”Von Economo Neurons”

Sponsored by the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, and Annette C. Merle-Smith