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<h3 align="center"><a href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/">Brain-Mind
Institute (BMI)</a><br>
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<h3 align="center"><small><a
href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/program-summer-2013.html">Programs:
Summer 2013</a></small></h3>
<p align="center"><strong>Summer School June 17 - July 5, August
15 - August 2, 2013<br>
International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM), July 27 - 28,
2013 <br>
<a href="http://www.msu.edu/">Michigan State University</a>, <a
href="http://www.cityofeastlansing.com/">East Lansing</a>, <a
href="http://www.michigan.org/">Michigan</a> <a
href="http://www.history.com/topics/states">USA</a><br>
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<p>This is the 2nd year of BMI after the successful BMI 2012. BMI
2013 has two parts, summer school and conference. <br>
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Important dates</strong>: <br>
Full papers: by Sunday, April 14, 2013<br>
Abstracts: by Sunday, April 21, 2013<br>
Course applications (to get admitted so that you can register):
by Sunday, March 28, 2012 <br>
Advance registration: Sunday, April 28, 2013<br>
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<h4 align="center">Call for BMI Course Applications</h4>
<p align="left">BMI summer courses will have two 3-week sessions,
the 1st session (Cognitive Science) June 17 - July 5, 2013 and
the 2nd session (Computational Brain-Mind) July 15-August 2,
2013. <br>
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<li>Due to the need of 6-discipline scope, the BMI courses are
designed for anybody who has at least a bachelor degree,
including faculty, senior researchers, post-doctoral
researchers, and graduate students in any discipline.
Exceptional undergraduate student can be considered on a case
by case basis.</li>
<li>On-site participation of ICBM in the same year is required
for all course related activities (except BMI 871) as part of
the requirements of the BMI 6DC program, including one-course
enrollment, two-course enrollment, and non-course subject
tests.<br>
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<li>Those who do not take a BMI course can also register for
only ICBM. </li>
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<h4 align="center">Call for ICBM Papers and Abstracts</h4>
<p align="left">BMI Internal Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM) calls
for papers in all subjects related to brain or mind to be
presented during Saturday and Sunday. 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/learning</strong>: training, learning,
development, interaction, performance metrics, and functions
of genome.</li>
<li><strong>Behaviors:</strong> actions, motor development,
concept learning, abstraction, languages, decision making,
reasoning, and creativity.</li>
<li><strong>Societies/multi-agent</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, and hearing loss.</li>
<li><strong>Applications</strong>: image analysis, computer
vision, speech recognition, pattern recognition, robotics,
artificial intelligence, instrumentation, and prosthetics.</li>
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<p>Accepted full papers and abstracts will be presented orally at
ICBM, available online and searchable. Each paper will be
maximum 8 pages. Each abstracts must be no longer than 500 words
plus as many as 4 bibliographic citations (4000 characters
total). <br>
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Juyang (John) Weng, Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
MSU Cognitive Science Program and MSU Neuroscience Program
428 S Shaw Ln Rm 3115
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
Tel: 517-353-4388
Fax: 517-432-1061
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:weng@cse.msu.edu">weng@cse.msu.edu</a>
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/">http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/</a>
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