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Dear colleagues:<br>
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With the great support from many colleagues, the Brain-Mind
Institute (BMI) has successfully run for two years, with
distinguished talks,<br>
summer schools, International Conference on Brain-Mind
(ICBM), and the Brain-Mind Magazine (BMM). <br>
Its 2014 summer school and ICBM will run in Beijing, China,
collocating with <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="www.ieee-wcci2014.org/%3F">WCCI 2014</a>. <br>
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Brain-Mind Institute (BMI)<br>
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href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/">http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/</a><br>
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Preliminary Program: Summer 2014<br>
Summer School, Beijing, June 16 - July 4, 2014 (weeks 1-3)<br>
(WCCI 2014, Beijing, not a part of BMI Program, but BMI
participants are encouraged to participate) (week 4:
Saturday - Friday)<br>
International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM), Beijing, July
12 - 13, 2014 (week 4: weekend)<br>
Summer School, Beijing, July 14 - August 1, 2014 (weeks 5-7)<br>
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Co-Sponsored and Co-Organized by<br>
Brain-Mind Institute and<br>
Brainnetome Center of CASIA, Beijing, China<br>
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BMI Courses:
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Session 1: BMI 831 Cognitive Science for Brain-Mind
Research. 3 credits.
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On-site at CASIA or distance learning. BMI 831 certificate
is issued for those who pass the course.<br>
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Session 2: BMI 871
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Computational Brain-Mind. 3 credits. <br>
On-site at CASIA or distance learning. BMI 871 certificate
is issued for those who pass the course.<br>
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Full-time students can apply for tuition waivers. <br>
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ICBM:<br>
The subjects of interest include, but not limited to:
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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,
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constitutions, laws, and cultures.</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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<strong>Important dates: <br>
</strong>Course applications (to get admitted so that you
can register): by Sunday, April 6, 2014<br>
Tuition waiver applications (full-time students only, mark
in your course application): by Sunday, April 6, 2014<br>
ICBM full papers: by Sunday, April 13, 2014<br>
ICBM abstracts: by Sunday, April 20, 2014<br>
Notification of admission: April 27, 2014<br>
Notification of tuition waiver: April 27, 2014<br>
Advance registration: by Sunday, May 4, 2014<br>
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