ICPBR Colloquia/Seminars
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Mar 24, 2026Prof. Steven Laureys: "From neuroplasticity in coma to the interoceptive brain: The neural bases of conscious experience in human and non-human primates"Understanding how the brain generates conscious experience remains one of the central challenges of neuroscience. In this keynote, prof. Steven Laureys will present insights from three decades of research exploring the neural bases of consciousness across health ... -
Dec 03, 2025Prof. Antoine Adamantidis: "All-optical dissection of cortical circuit dynamics and functions during sleep"Sleep is an active state critical for processing emotional memories encoded during waking in both humans and animals. There is a remarkable overlap between the brain structures and circuits active during sleep, particularly rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep, and the... -
Nov 17, 2025Prof. Daniel Razansky: "Listening to light and seeing sound in the brain"Development of more efficient and less intrusive ways to alter and observe brain activity is instrumental towards tackling neurological diseases in an aging population and for advancing basic neuroscience research. Light- and ultrasound-based technologies are gro... -
Oct 14, 2025Prof. Zhaoping Li: "The central-peripheral dichotomy in primatevision: theory and experimental tests"The central-peripheral dichotomy (CPD) theory states: the peripheral visual field is mainly for looking (shifts gaze and attention), the central visual field is mainly for seeing (recognition/discrimination), and that top-down feedback along the (ventral) visual ... -
Sep 22, 2025Prof. Benjamin Becker: "Decoding and regulating human emotion and motivation – from neural signatures to therapeutic targets"Adaptive emotion and motivation are essential for everyday functioning, and their disruption represents a transdiagnostic feature across major mental and neurological disorders. Existing interventions in these domains often lack efficacy, highlighting the urgent ... -
Sep 18, 2025Dr. XU Rui: "Mapping the human cortical connectome underlying cognition"The human cerebral cortex orchestrates complex cognitive functions, yet its wiring diagram remains poorly understood. We previously showed in macaque monkeys that concurrent electrical stimulation and fMRI (es-fMRI) closely matches gold-standard tract tracing for...