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Seminars 2024-2025

Throughout the academic year, ɬÀï·¬ Vision Research and the Centre for Research in Neuroscience host the weekly BRaIN Seminar Series,Ìýas part of the RI-MUHC BRaIN Program. The topics cover numerous aspects of experimental neuroscience, and our speakers include international as well as local leaders in their respective fields.Ìý

When :ÌýWednesdays at 12 noon (unless otherwise stated).

Where: CRN seminar room,ÌýMontreal General Hospital, Livingston Hall, L7-140, with hybrid option

Are youÌýinterested in attending a virtual seminar?ÌýIf so, contact theÌýbrain [at] muhc.mcgill.ca (subject: Addition%20to%20email%20list) (BRaIN Program)Ìý to receive the link.
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WantÌýa monthly email to notify you of upcoming seminars? Contact brain [at] muhc.mcgill.ca (subject: Addition%20to%20email%20list) (BRaIN Program)

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Speaker and topicÌýÌýÌý

Ìý Ìý Ìý Wednesday
Sept 25, 2024
Dorita Chang, PhD
Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong
Title: (Sensory) eye dominance: the what, the where and the how
Host: Alexander Baldwin
Ìý Ìý Ìý Wednesday
Oct 23, 2024
Brian Chen, PhD
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, ɬÀï·¬
In-House Research Update
Ìý Ìý Ìý Wednesday
Nov 6, 2024
Alison Barth, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences,ÌýCarnegie Mellon University
Title: Input- and target-specific plasticity in neocortical circuits during learning
Host: Jesper Sjöström
Ìý Ìý Ìý Wednesday
Nov 13, 2024
Nicolas Tritsch, PhD
Department of Psychiatry,ÌýThe Douglas Research Centre
Title: Trying to make sense of dopamine’s contributions to behavior
Host: Wei-Hsiang Huang
Ìý Ìý Ìý Wednesday
Nov 20, 2024
Janine Mendola, PhD
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, ɬÀï·¬
In-House Research Update
Ìý Ìý Ìý Wednesday
Nov 27, 2024
Rebecca Todd, PhD
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Title:ÌýApproaching pleasure, avoiding pain: Neurocognitive tuning to affective salience across a spectrum of mood disorder symptoms
Host: Stefanie Blain-Moraes
Ìý Ìý Ìý Wednesday
Dec 4, 2024
Christine Constantinople, PhD
Center for Neural Science, New York University
Title: Neural circuit mechanisms of value-based decision-making
Host: Jesper Sjöström
Wednesday
Dec 11, 2024
Ìý Ìý ¸éémy Allard , PhD
École d'optométrie, ÌýUniversité de Montréal
Title: Functionally evaluating the impact of healthy ageing and age-related macular degeneration on the efficiency of photoreceptors
Host: Alexander Baldwin
Wednesday
Jan 08, 2025
Ìý Ìý Laurent Perrinet, PhD
Computational Neuroscience, CNRS / Aix-Marseille Université
Title:ÌýHow and why does retinotopy provides efficient vision
Host: Alexandre Renaud
Wednesday
Jan 29, 2025
Ìý Ìý Niklas Brake, PhD
Department of Physiology,ÌýɬÀï·¬
Title:ÌýAn orchestra out of rhythm: aperiodic EEG and the 1/f spectral trend
Host: Alexander Baldwin
Wednesday
Feb 05, 2025
Ìý Ìý Marco Leyton , PhD
Department of Psychiatry, ɬÀï·¬
Title: ÌýReimagining the Diathesis-Stress Model: Temperament, Adversity, Biology
Host: Janine Mendola
Wednesday
Feb 12, 2025
Ìý Ìý Gabriella Gobbi , PhD
Department of Psychiatry, ɬÀï·¬
Title: The psychopharmacology of psychedelics
Host: Charles Bourque
Wednesday
Feb 19, 2025
Ìý Ìý Nancy Mayo , PhD
School of Physical and occupational Therapy,ÌýɬÀï·¬
Title: Real-time Auditory Feedback to Improve Gait and Motivation in People with Parkinson
Host: Alexandre Reynaud
Wednesday
Feb 26, 2025
Ìý Ìý Paul Masset , PhD
Department of Psychology, ɬÀï·¬
Title:ÌýMulti-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain
Host: Brian Chen
Wednesday
Mar 05, 2025
Ìý Ìý Charles Bourque, PhD
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, ɬÀï·¬
In-House Research Update
Wednesday
Mar 12, 2025
Ìý Ìý Francesca CapozziÌý, PhD
Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Title: What we see and what we say: A social cognitive approach to minds, society, and clinical practice @MUSIC
Host: Reza Farivar
Wednesday
Mar 19, 2025
Ìý Ìý Bilal Haider, PhD
Department of Bomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech/ Emory University
Title: The control of visual perception by cortical lateral inhibition
Host: Jesper Sjöström
Wednesday
Apr 02, 2025
Ìý Ìý Jan Gründemann, PhD
University of Bonn
Title: Imaging deep: Learning-related plasticity in thalamic circuits
Host: Jesper Sjöström
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Wednesday
Apr 16, 2025

*In person only

Ìý Ìý Matthieu Vanni, PhD
Université de Montréal
Title: Multimodal plasticity of cortical function in animal models of blindness and cortical lesions affecting vision
Host: Alexandre Reynaud
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