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NeuroTech Conference
January 23, 2020 - January 25, 2020
DAY 1: Mellon Institute, Room 348, CMU, 4400 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15213
DAY 2: Cathedral of Learning, Room 1008, U. of Pitt, 4200 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15213
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Danielle Bassett (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Bioengineering)
Sarah Robins (University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy)
Carl Craver (Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Philosophy and PNP program)
John Bickle (Mississippi State University Philosophy and University of Mississippi Medical Center)
Astrid Prinz (Emory University, Department of Biology)
Topics:
Technological innovation has always played a central role in neuroscientific experimentation and theorizing. Historically, Nissl and Golgi staining methods were crucial to allowing researchers to produce data bearing on the neuron doctrine. More recently, the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative, launched by former President Barack Obama and carried out with support from the NIH, NSF, DARPA, and IARPA, has directed resources into the development of new technologies in the hope that it will improve, or even revolutionize, our understanding of the brain. Additionally, new computational technologies potentially give insight into understanding how to link behaviour to neuroscience in ways that many hope will impact clinical practice.
The aim of this workshop is to explore how tools and technology have advanced neuroscience and cognitive science and consider their epistemological and broader philosophical implications. We are inviting abstract submissions linked to the workshop’s main questions:
1) How are new technologies in neuroscience assessed and revised?
2) How have new technologies in neuroscience advanced debates in (philosophy of) cognitive science?
DAY 1 Mellon Institute Room 348, CMU
8:30 | Continental breakfast in Mellon Institute Room 348 |
9:00 | Welcome and Introduction: Morgan Thompson (University of Pittsburgh) and Mahi Hardalupas (University of Pittsburgh) |
9:30 | Chia-Hua Lin (University of Virginia) “Developing Techniques as Generating New Know-how: A Case Study of the Chomksy Hierarchy” Commentator: Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna) |
10:30 | Philipp Haueis (Bielefeld University) “Exploratory concept formation and tool development in neuroscience: the case of “bug detectors” and the “default mode” of brain function” Commentator: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh) |
11:30 | Coffee break in Room 328 |
12:00 | Ann-Sophie Barwich (Indiana University, Bloomington) “Imaging the living Brain: Reductionism revisited in times of dynamical systems” Commentator: Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh) |
1:00 | Lunch (On Your Own) |
2:15 | Keynote: Astrid Prinz (Emory University) “Hybrid Brains: Interfacing Living Neurons and Circuits with Computational Models” |
3:15 | Poster Session (and coffee break) in Mellon Institute Room 328 1. David Colaco: “Can Tool Development Solve Neuroscience’s Data Integration Problem?” 2. Evan Pence: “Physiology, Measurement, and Underdetermination in Animal Cognition” 3. David Barack: “The Epistemic Problem of Implementation” 4. Christopher Ross, Maureen Stabio, and Jordan Renna: “3D Printing of Digitally Traced Neurons for Neuroanatomy Education” 5. Vanessa Bentley: “Sex essentialism as a limiting assumption in cognitive neuroscience” 6. Thierri Callier and Nathan Brantly: “BCIs and Touch” 7. Keying Chen, Steven Wellman, Franca Cambi, James Eles and Takashi Kozai: “In vivo spatiotemporal patterns of oligodendrocyte and myelin damage at the neural electrode interface” 8. Kevin Stieger, Steven Wellman, James Eles and Takashi Kozai: “Neurovascular damage during electrode implantation immediately reduces recording performance and increases high frequency local field potential power” 9. Steven Wellman, Kelly Guzman, Kevin Stieger, Lauren Brink, Sadhana Sridhar, Mitchell Dubaniewicz, Lehong Li, Franca Cambi and Takashi Kozai. “Oligodendrocyte and myelin loss impairs recording performance of neural interfaces in cuprizone-induced model of demyelination” |
5:15 | Lauren Ross (University of California, Irvine) “Tracer technology in neuroscience: Causation, constraints, and connectivity” Commentator: David Danks (Carnegie Mellon University) |
6:15 | End of Day 1 |
DAY 2 Cathedral of Learning Room 1008, U. of Pitt
9:00 | Continental breakfast in 1117 Cathedral of Learning |
9:30 | Keynote: Danielle Bassett (University of Pennsylvania) “Perturbative Approaches to Probing Brain Network Function” |
10:30 | Dan Burnston (Tulane University) “Complex Mapping Tools and Task Ontologies” Commentator: Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College) |
11:30 | Coffee break in 1117 Cathedral of Learning |
12:00 | Keynote: Carl Craver (Washington University) and John Bickle (Mississippi State University and University of Mississippi Medical Center) “New Tools and Artifacts: The Evidential Selection Problem and a Solution in Practice” |
1:00 | Lunch (On Your Own) |
2:00 | Luis Favela (University of Central Florida) “‘It takes two to make a thing go right’: The coevolution of technological and mathematical tools to explain scale-free neuronal activity” Commentator: Colin Allen (University of Pittsburgh) |
3:00 | Josef Kay (University of California, Irvine) “Integrated Explanations in Psychedelic Neuroscience” Commentator: Dan Weiskopf (Georgia State University) |
4:00 | Coffee break in 1117 Cathedral of Learning |
4:30 | Gregory Johnson (Mississippi State University) “Hacking, Microscopes, and Calcium Imaging” Commentator: Nina Atanasova (University of Toledo) |
5:30 | Keynote: Sarah Robins (University of Kansas) “The Silent Engram” |
6:30 | Adjourn |
Organizing Committee:
Morgan Thompson (University of Pittsburgh HPS)
Mahi Hardalupas (University of Pittsburgh HPS)
Colin Allen (University of Pittsburgh HPS)
Nathan Urban (University of Pittsburgh Neurobiology and CNBC)
Carl Craver (Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Philosophy and PNP program)
John Bickle (Mississippi State University Philosophy and University of Mississippi Medical Center)
Sponsors:
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh
Questions? Please direct all queries to neurotechconference@gmail.com
Details
- Start:
- January 23, 2020
- End:
- January 25, 2020
- Event Categories:
- Conferences 2019-20, Conferences, Workshops and Programs
Venue
- Mellon Institute
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4400 Fifth Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States + Google Map