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Institute</a></b><br>
<b>Summer School</b><br>
<strong></strong>Mon. June 25 - Fri., August 3, 2012<strong></strong><br>
and <br>
<b>International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM)</b><br>
Sat. July 14, 2012 - Sun. July 15, 2012<br>
<strong> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.msu.edu/">Michigan
State University</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Collectively, the human race seems ready to unveil one of its last
mysteries — how its brain-mind works at computational depth. The
term <em>computational depth</em> here means not only qualitative
mechanisms, but also quantitative mechanisms that are sufficient
to give rise to major brain-mind functions, from earlier animals,
to humans, to machines, and to group intelligence thereof, through
computation. From the knowledge required for a recently
synthesized grand computational picture of the brain-mind and many
other partial computational pictures, it seems that the research
community urgently needs a large number of leaders who have
sufficient knowledge in at least six disciplines conjunctively —
Biology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science, Electrical
Engineering, and Mathematics (6 disciplines). Such knowledge is
further needed for understanding brain-mind, either natural or
artificial, in many scales that the Institute is interested in —
genes, cells, circuits, streams, brain ways, experiences,
behaviors, societies, and diseases. </p>
<p align="left">While increasingly more researchers are converging
to this high-impact brain-mind subject, they face great
challenges: The existing educational and research infrastructure
was not meant for this brain-mind scale (6 disciplines). The
Brain-Mind Institute (BMI) provides an integrated 6-discipline
academic and research infrastructure for future leaders of
brain-mind research. The BMI is a new kind of institute, not
limited by boundaries of disciplines, organizations, and
geographic locations.<br>
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<p><strong>Important dates</strong>: <br>
Full papers: by Sunday, March 4, 2012<br>
Abstracts: by Sunday, March 11, 2012 <br>
Advance registration: Sunday, March 18, 2012<br>
Instructor applications: Sunday, April 1, 2012</p>
<h4 align="center">Keynote Talks</h4>
<p align="left"><em>Toward an Integrated Science of Decision Making:
Bridging Levels of Analysis with the Leaky Competing Accumulator
Model</em><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www-psych.stanford.edu/%7Ejlm/">James L. McClelland</a><br>
Lucie Stern Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology<br>
Director, Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation<br>
Stanford University<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/jay-mcclelland-summer-2012.html">Abstract</a><br>
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<p><em>Foundations and New Paradigms of Brain Computing: Attention,
Search, Recognition, Oscillations, Working Memory, Speech
Perception, Social Cognition</em><strong><br>
</strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cns.bu.edu/%7Esteve/">Stephen Grossberg</a><br>
Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems<br>
Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering<br>
Director, Center for Adaptive Systems<br>
Boston University<br>
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href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/stephen-grossberg-summer-2012.html">Abstract</a></p>
<p>More to be added ...<br>
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<p>Committees: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/committees.html">http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/committees.html</a><br>
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<h4 align="center">Call for Papers and Abstracts</h4>
<p align="left">BMI Internal Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM) calls
for papers in all subjects related to brain-mind to be presented
during July 14-15, 2012. The subjects of interest include, but not
limited to:</p>
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<li><strong>Genes</strong>: inheritance, evolution, species,
environments, nature vs. nurture, and evolution vs. development.</li>
<li><strong>Cells</strong>: cell models, cell learning, cell
signaling, tissues, morphogenesis, and tissue development.</li>
<li><strong>Circuits</strong>: features, clustering,
self-organization, cortical circuits, Brodmann areas,
representation, classification, and regression.</li>
<li><strong>Streams</strong>: pathways, intra-modal attention,
vision, audition, touch (including kinesthetics, temperature),
smell, and taste.</li>
<li><strong>Brain ways</strong>: neural networks, brain-mind
architecture, inter-modal attention, multisensory integration,
and neural modulation (punishment/serotonin/pain,
reward/dopamine/pleasure/sex,
novelty/acetylcholine/norepinephrine, higher emotion).</li>
<li><strong>Experiences</strong>: learning, perceptual
development, cognitive development, value development, functions
of genome.</li>
<li><strong>Behaviors:</strong> actions, motor development,
concept learning, abstraction, languages, decision making,
reasoning, and creativity.</li>
<li><strong>Societies</strong>: joint attention, swarm
intelligence, group intelligence, genders, races, science of
organization, constitutions, and laws.</li>
<li><strong>Diseases</strong>: depression, ADD/ADHD, drug
addiction, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease,
Parkinson's disease, vision loss, hearing loss, and prosthetics.</li>
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