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Please join us for our third Haskins Seminar on March 6th. This time, we will hear from Jie Ren, PhD, of Longy School of Music of Bard College, and we will convene in Suite 900 at Haskins Laboratories (Yale University) located at 300 George St in New Haven. Title and abstract are below, and a flyer is attached. Happy hour to follow the seminar. 

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The Fetal, Infant and Toddler Neuroimaging Group presents:
MRI for global health : UNITY (Ultralow field Neuroimaging In The Young)

Featuring Dr Niall Bourke and Sharada Balaji

Details: MRI is essential for studying brain development and disease, but access remains limited in many parts of the world. Ultralow-field (ULF) MRI offers a cost-effective solution, expanding neuroimaging to resource-limited settings and enabling new approaches to studying the developing brain. By integrating technological advances with a global network, the UNITY project aims to make neuroimaging more accessible and impactful worldwide.
In this talk, Dr Niall Bourke (Imperial/Kings, United Kingdom) will first present 

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Hi all,

The meeting request/dinner sign-up deadline is tomorrow, so if you are interested please email me ([log in to unmask]). Thank you!

Crystal Mills, MBA
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TMS Workshop - October 23, 2024

BIRC is excited to host a one-day Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Workshop. The workshop will feature a morning session focused on theoretical foundations, followed by an afternoon of practical, hands-on training.

The workshop will be led by Dr. Nishant Rao, a researcher from Yale University. Dr. Rao specializes in using TMS to explore how the brain adapts and changes with experience, with a particular focus on the sensory and motor networks. His research often employs speech production and voluntary limb movement as experimental models to gain deeper insights into these neural processes. 

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A reminder about Dr. Li's talk on 3/28. Please register if you plan to join us on Zoom. Note that this talk will be recorded. The recording will be posted here: https://birc.uconn.edu/events/speaker-series-2/<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbirc.uconn.edu%2Fevents%2Fspeaker-series-2%2F&data=05%7C02%7CBIRC_SPEAKER_SERIES-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Ce399f749263849ea6cfe08dc4a9849db%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638467265292781660%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Z07DqPerCppV8JxmV05h0b3L3YVjkNjbra1rxIO6dn0%3D&reserved=0>

We now have a brief RSVP form for the watch party in Arjona 339 with coffee and donuts. A flyer with more information is attached. If you plan to attend, please RSVP so we can get an estimate for food: https://forms.gle/F5jRKUWE3yBFCwvF8<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FF5jRKUWE3yBFCwvF8&data=05%7C02%7CBIRC_SPEAKER_SERIES-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7Ce399f749263849ea6cfe08dc4a9849db%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638467265292781660%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6nqgH2EUlWuyVf%2FgczSo5JMuV3Mu6ly%2BpDIjgAKYDEQ%3D&reserved=0>. 

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A reminder about Dr. Ping's talk on 3/28. Please register if you plan to join us on Zoom. Note that this talk will be recorded. The recording will be posted here: https://birc.uconn.edu/events/speaker-series-2/<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbirc.uconn.edu%2Fevents%2Fspeaker-series-2%2F&data=05%7C02%7CBIRC_SPEAKER_SERIES-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C66dc9b9d7b8241391e6e08dc3f98dbb2%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638455173121313796%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=BvH6q9rGWIYzD2ur%2BHZITHeupZ4j5gG9sqLritgL%2F6g%3D&reserved=0>

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IBACS/BIRC Talk on 3/28: Dr. Ping Li

We are excited to announce the next talk in the IBACS/BIRC speaker series. Out next speaker if the semester is Ping Li from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Ping Li, PhD, is Sin Wai Kin Professor in Humanities and Technology, Chair Professor of Neurolinguistics and Bilingual Studies, and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University. He previously served as President of the Society for Computation in Psychology and Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation while being a Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. Li’s 

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IBACS, BIRC, and the Developmental division of Psychological Sciences have two exciting talks coming up - please see the below announcements and the attached flyers for details!

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Dr. Amy Margolis on 2/2

We are excited to announce the next talk in the IBACS/BIRC speaker series co-sponsored by the Developmental Division in Psychological Sciences. Dr. Amy Margolis, PhD is an Associate Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Director of the Environment, Brain, and Behavior Lab, as well as the Columbia Psychology, Psychiatry, and Public Health Collaborative Learning Disability Innovation Hub funded by National Institute of 

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We are excited to announce the next talk in the IBACS/BIRC speaker series. Our first speaker of the semester, co-sponsored by the Developmental Division in Psychological Sciences, will be Dr. Nick Turk-Browne from Yale University. Nick Turk-Browne, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale. The Turk-Browne lab is broadly interested in how we see (perception), how we control what we see and how it controls us (attention), and how we store what we see in our heads (learning and memory) — and especially in how all of these parts of the mind interact. They use a 

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A reminder that Dr. Andrew Jahn will be giving a virtual BIRC/IBACS talk tomorrow, 12/7 via Zoom from 2:30pm - 4pm ET. The talk is titled, Trends in Best Practices for fMRI Research. Details on his talk can be found below and you can register here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtZAtde2orjoqE9LhFc_7t95RQeUxLUcAm8iQ%23%2Fregistration&data=05%7C02%7CBIRC_SPEAKER_SERIES-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C4b7bb054ae274bcde33f08dbf6806bf1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638374803946439165%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8QiTaogqEwZHvJvvtLF9wSsRsLHLXypy7kQsdKjzE4k%3D&reserved=0> with your university-affiliated email to attend! Please see the attached flyer for more details. 

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There will be a watch party for the virtual BIRC/IBACS talk by Dr. Andrew Jahn on 12/17 from 2:30pm - 4pm ET in Arjona 339. Following Dr. Jahn's talk, The Brain Imaging Research Center will be hosting an open house from 4:15pm-6pm in the Phillips Communication Building. Everyone is welcome, and you can come to one or both events! RSVP either way here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshorturl.at%2FemnzR&data=05%7C01%7CBIRC_SPEAKER_SERIES-L%40LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU%7C2cf56efa00324c0bd3df08dbf02659cb%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638367819735389554%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XSw4gFvY1wundqcDUsC%2Byp9EoQ6s3JtLlRvEF5f9ThI%3D&reserved=0>. Snacks will be available at both events and there may or may not be a scavenger hunt too... Please see the attached flyer for more details!

Dear IBACS & BIRC Communities,

We are excited to announce a new talk series sponsored by BIRC and IBACS. Our first speaker will be Dr. Andrew Jahn at the Univeristy of Michigan. Andrew Jahn, PhD is a neuroimaging consultant at the University of Michigan's UMOR Functional MRI Laboratory in the Radiology Department. Dr. Jahn teaches neuroimaging analysis, functional and structural connectivity, machine learning, and other topics related to cognitive neuroscience. He has hosted neuroimaging workshops at several research institutions across the United States, including the University of Washington, Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Harvard University, and others. His research 

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Dear IBACS & BIRC Communities,

We are excited to announce a new talk series sponsored by BIRC and IBACS. Our first speaker will be Dr. Andrew Jahn at the Univeristy of Michigan. Andrew Jahn, PhD is a neuroimaging consultant at the University of Michigan's UMOR Functional MRI Laboratory in the Radiology Department. Dr. Jahn teaches neuroimaging analysis, functional and structural connectivity, machine learning, and other topics related to cognitive neuroscience. He has hosted neuroimaging workshops at several research institutions across the United States, including the University of Washington, Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Harvard University, and others. His research 

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Sharing this virtual event that may be of interest. Thank you!

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The Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) is pleased to announce a new call for applications to its seed grant fund.

The seed grant program is intended to fund research consistent with the IBACS mission. Large Seed Grant applications (>$10,000 but <$25,000) are time-limited to accommodate GA assignment; the Fall deadline is October 2nd, 2023 (due to the 1st falling on a weekend). Please submit letters of intent as soon as possible, but at least 2 weeks prior to the seed grant application deadline (by 9/15/23), to allow time for 

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The UConn Brain Imaging Research Center Speaker Series
The role of functional and structural brain imaging in educational neuroscience

Thursday, March 30th

2:00pm EST (17:00 UTC)

WebEx and YouTube Live

The field of educational neuroscience (or mind brain and education) was effectively launched by advances in in vivo brain imaging in the 1990s, driving the emergence of multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches to understanding mechanisms of learning. In this talk, I review how brain imaging is currently used and viewed in this inherently translational field. Approaches range from basic cognitive neuroscience of education-relevant abilities, to proposed diagnostic tools for neurodevelopmental conditions, 

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The UConn Brain Imaging Research Center Speaker Series
The role of functional and structural brain imaging in educational neuroscience

Thursday, March 30th

2:00pm EST (17:00 UTC)

WebEx and YouTube Live

The field of educational neuroscience (or mind brain and education) was effectively launched by advances in in vivo brain imaging in the 1990s, driving the emergence of multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches to understanding mechanisms of learning. In this talk, I review how brain imaging is currently used and viewed in this inherently translational field. Approaches range from basic cognitive neuroscience of education-relevant abilities, to proposed diagnostic tools for neurodevelopmental conditions, 

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The UConn Brain Imaging Research Center Speaker Series
The brain's task control networks in youth and relations to academic performance

Thursday, February 2nd

2:00pm EST (17:00 UTC)

Livestreamed to Oak 408 & YouTube

Academic success directly relates to career success and future earnings, while task control, often assessed as executive function, predicts academic success. The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience lab at UT Austin studies how the brain’s putative task control networks relate to academic success and mental health in children and adolescents over time. For this talk, I will first review some of our work on the consistency of control network 

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The UConn Brain Imaging Research Center Speaker Series
Building meaning builds teens’ brains: Adolescents’ transcendent thinking predicts young adult psychosocial outcomes via neural development

Thursday, January 19th

2:00pm EST (17:00 UTC)

Livestreamed to Oak 408 & YouTube

A major achievement of adolescent development is the capacity to integrate abstract cognitive construals with affective experiences to construct meaningful, transcendent narratives about one’s self and the world—constructing identities and coming to feel strongly about complex social issues. Leveraging these capacities, adolescents can be among the most visionary and commited citizens, as the world has recently seen with such extraordinary youth as Malala 

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The UConn Brain Imaging Research Center Speaker Series
Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence regarding the influence of oculomotor circuitry on auditory spatial tasks

Thursday, November 17th

2:00pm EST (17:00 UTC)

Livestreamed to Oak 408 & YouTube

Spatial cues play an important role in segregating auditory objects in a complex acoustical scene. Spatial attention is often considered to be supramodal, e.g., crossmodal spatial cues can enhance the perception of stimuli in another modality when presented in the same location. Therefore, it is not surprising to find similarities between auditory and visual spatial attentional networks. 

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The UConn Brain Imaging Research Center Speaker Series
Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence regarding the influence of oculomotor circuitry on auditory spatial tasks

Thursday, November 17th

2:00pm EST (17:00 UTC)

Livestreamed to Oak 408 & YouTube

Spatial cues play an important role in segregating auditory objects in a complex acoustical scene. Spatial attention is often considered to be supramodal, e.g., crossmodal spatial cues can enhance the perception of stimuli in another modality when presented in the same location. Therefore, it is not surprising to find similarities between auditory and visual spatial attentional networks. An outstanding question, however, is how the supramodal 

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The UConn Brain Imaging Research Center Speaker Series

Leading Institutional Cultural Changes Using a Change Management Model: A DEI Example

Thursday, November 3rd

2:00pm EDT (16:00 UTC)

Livestreamed to Oak 408 & YouTube

Instilling cultural changes in an institution is an uphill battle. Some take up leadership positions at an institution in the hope of making lasting changes. Crafting a vision of change is obviously important, but often the execution of changes is stalled because the road ahead is too daunting. While change management is a well-studied discipline in the business world, we barely leverage this in academia. In this 

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The UConn Brain Imaging Research Center Speaker Series
Leading Institutional Cultural Changes Using a Change Management Model: A DEI Example

Thursday, November 3rd

2:00pm EDT (16:00 UTC)

Livestreamed to Oak 408 & YouTube

Instilling cultural changes in an institution is an uphill battle. Some take up leadership positions at an institution in the hope of making lasting changes. Crafting a vision of change is obviously important, but often the execution of changes is stalled because the road ahead is too daunting. While change management is a well-studied discipline in the business world, we barely leverage this in academia. In this 

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Dear BIRC Community,

This is the final reminder that today, Friday, May 20th at 1:30pm EST, Dr. Augusto Buchweitz will be giving their talk, 'Leave the kids alone’: a brief history of building a brain imaging lab in Brazil and investigating children and adolescent early literacy and exposure to violence. For more information, including the abstract for this talk, please see the attached flier, and our website.<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbirc.uconn.edu%2Fevents%2Fspeaker-series%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C3c44a852603f4ce9350908da3a4ca1c5%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637886398365512008%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sEYD4GDVkLha5Rlpac39LRjU8vzbJ3iIlKQwcdJMCzE%3D&reserved=0> 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Dr. Adrian Owen’s talk!

We are excited to announce the next BIRC Speaker, Professor Augusto Buchweitz of the University of Connecticut. Dr. Buchweitz is a new associate professor of Psychology at UCONN and affiliate researcher at Haskins labs and Haskins Global Literacy Hub. He received his Ph.D. in Language and Linguistics from the Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at CMU, where he Investigated the brain bases of late bilinguals. He will give his talk, "‘Leave the kids alone’: a brief history of 

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We have an excellent BIRC Speaker today that we would LOVE for you to attend. He’s a world-renowned researcher (and public speaker) on consciousness and the brain. Even if you are not in the field, you will enjoy it - guaranteed :) Please register and join! It’s happening at 1:30pm EST today.
Please share widely! 

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Dear BIRC Community,

This is a reminder that on April 22nd at 1:30pm EST​​, Dr. Adrian Owen will be giving their talk, Into The Gray Zone: Assessing Residual Cognitive Function in Disorders of Consciousness. For more information, including the abstract for this talk, please see my original email below and the attached flyer. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Please read the entire email below as there have been changes to the BIRC Speaker Series.

1. Augusto Buchweitz talk scheduled for this Friday (3/25) has been CANCELLED. As of now, there is not a rescheduled date and time. If you already registered for his talk, you will be receiving an email update regarding the cancellation. We are sorry for any inconvenience. 

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Hello BIRC Community,

Please read this entire email fully, as there have been updates to Augusto Buchweitz's BIRC talk, as well as an additional talk coming up by John Hale. Please see below for more information regarding these two talks.

1. John Hale (2/18) @ 4pm ET
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3. BIRC will be co-sponsoring a talk with the Cognitive Science Program, as well as IBACS. We will be hosting John Hale, PhD, from the University of Georgia. His Talk is titled, Grammar, Incrementality and fMRI Timecourse. This talk will be held on ​Friday, February 18th at 4pm ET. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

There has been a change to a BIRC Speaker Series event. Augusto Buchweitz's talk has now been moved from 2/18 to March 25th, 2022. The time will stay the same (1:30pm ET). Please see below for the updated announcement. Those who have already registered will receive an email with the updated date and time. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

We are excited to announce the next BIRC Speaker, Professor Augusto Buchweitz, who just started his tenure at the University of Connecticut (UConn) as Associate professor of Psychology, and affiliated researcher at Haskins Labs. Dr. Buchweitz received his Ph.D. in Language and Linguistics from the Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University. He will give his talk, ‘Leave them kids alone’: a brief history of building a brain imaging lab in Brazil and investigating children and adolescent early literacy and exposure to 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Roy Hamilton’s talk! Please click here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FGD9UJGgccIk&data=04%7C01%7C%7C71708f487b0b4d3d588808d9df678067%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637786457888174482%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=7nSsfOKccNISyJA%2BXl3F3ehqwIrYUqw9P8V3B6di2A4%3D&reserved=0> to view his talk on YouTube.

We appreciate everyone who has joined us this past semester, and we are excited for the upcoming Spring semester. More information will be sent out regarding the BIRC Speaker Series in the next few weeks. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

This is a reminder that on January 21 at 1:30 pm ET, Dr. Roy Hamilton will be giving their talk, Stimulating Conversations: Employing Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Technologies to Characterize and Enhance Language Processing in Persons with Aphasia. For more information, including the abstract for this talk, please see my original email below and the attached flyer. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

We hope that you enjoyed the holidays and the new year!

We are excited to announce the next BIRC Speaker will be Professor Roy Hamilton of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hamilton is an Associate Professor in the Neurology and Physical Science and Rehabilitation departments at UPenn, where he also directs the Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation (LCNS). He will give his talk on Friday, January 21st, 2022 from 1:30-2:45 pm ET. Please see the attached flyer for more information regarding his talk. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

We are excited to announce the next BIRC Speaker will be Professor Roy Hamilton, PhD of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hamilton is an Associate Professor in the Neurology and Physical Science and Rehabilitation departments at UPenn, where he also directs the Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation (LCNS). ​To read more about Dr. Hamilton and his lab, please click here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.med.upenn.edu%2Flcns%2Fhamilton.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C9791f4da735044cd983d08d9bf490943%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637751142673555799%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=R30DsRWmplO3zaZ5u%2FOEMcJsdRJBymibpPqEwplj05c%3D&reserved=0>. He will give his talk on Friday, January 21st, 2022, from 1:30-2:45 pm ET. More information regarding Dr. Hamilton’s talk will be sent out in the new year. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

This is a reminder that on ​Dec. 10th at 1:30 pm ET, Dr. Jason Yeatman will be giving their talk, Neural plasticity in developmental dyslexia. For more information, including the abstract for this talk, please see my original email below and the attached flyer.

Registration is required to attend this seminar. Please register here.<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3wLtYN5&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cfd3882121d294001411708d9b677363f%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637741445392276725%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ggAfUux3g%2BWuToBx%2FEtZjIe00WwshQfsABhkr7kjK%2BQ%3D&reserved=0> We ask that you please use your university/institution email address so we can track attendance. Once you are registered, you will receive an automatically generated email from Zoom with the meeting information. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Thank you to everyone who attended Dr. Swathi Kiran's talk on Tuesday!

We are ​excited to announce the next BIRC Speaker will be Professor Jason Yeatman, PhD, of Stanford University! Dr. Jason Yeatman is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Stanford University. As the director of the Brain Development and Education Lab, the goal of his research is to understand the mechanisms that underlie the process of learning to read, how these mechanisms differ in children with dyslexia, and to design literacy intervention programs that are 

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Dear BIRC Community,

This is a reminder that on November 16th at 12 pm ET, Dr. Swathi Kiran, will be giving their talk, Advances and challenges in predicting recovery of language after stroke: The pursuit of precision rehabilitation. For more information, including the abstract for this talk, please see my original email below and the attached flyer. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Dr. Alex Martin's talk last week! We hope you enjoyed hearing him speak as much as we did.

We are excited to announce the next BIRC Speaker will be Dr. Swathi Kiran from Boston University! Swathi Kiran is the James and Cecelia Ying Professor of Neurorehabilitation in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Associate Dean for Research at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Director for Strategic Planning at the Office of the Provost at Boston University. Her research interests focus on lexical semantic treatment 

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Dear BIRC Community,

This is a reminder that on ​October 5th at 12-1:30 pm ET (9-10:30 am PT), ​Dr. Alex Martin will be giving their talk, ​Food for Thought: How perceived and inferred taste are represented in the human brain. For more information, including the abstract for this talk, please see my original email below and the attached flyer. 

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I apologize if you receive multiple emails regarding this. As you may have heard, there is a job opening for an Assistant Professor of Social Developmental Neuroscience here @ University of Connecticut in CT, USA. Review starts 11/8. One priority is in #neuroimaging and we’d love for you to share with your colleagues and students in and outside UConn. Please share the section below if you can.
Thank you. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Thank you to those who joined us yesterday to listen to Marilu Gorno-Tempini speak. We hope that everyone enjoyed her talk as much as we did.

We are excited to announce the next BIRC Speaker will be Dr. Alex Martin ​of the NIH/NIMH. Dr. Martin received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York, and he is Acting Chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, and Chief of the Cognitive Neuropsychology Section within the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health. ​He will give his talk, Food for Thought: How perceived and 

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Dear BIRC Community,

First I would like to introduce myself to you. My name is Anna and I am
taking over Lizzie Collin's role as the BIRC coordinator. In addition to my
role as the BIRC coordinator, I am also a research assistant under Fumiko
Hoeft in the BrainLENS lab. I'm excited to get to know you all! 

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Please join us today for the last BIRC Speaker Series of this academic year. We are fortunate to have Prof. Terry Jernigan from UCSD to celebrate the finale. She is known by many as “the” developmental cognitive neuroscientist who has lead a number of major national initiatives - PING and ABCD to name a few. The title of her talk is "Developmental Population Neuroscience and The ABCD Study”.
Join us today 6/8 Tuesday at 12pm ET via zoom. Please register here.<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3eY4sx5&data=04%7C01%7C%7C4e3ebbb86ba84f4c5d5b08d92a65d0e1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637587439807974645%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=T1q1iIxGG6S%2FtVr5P88iEuJI2E8HgddWmvrz6bfMgXw%3D&reserved=0>
See many of you soon!
Warmly,
Fumiko

Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is pleased to announce Professor Terry Jernigan will be our
next speaker on *Tuesday, June 8th at 12pm ET via Zoom*. Her talk is
titled *Developmental
Population Neuroscience and The ABCD Study. *Terry Jernigan, PhD, is
Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology, and Director,
Center for Human Development at the University of California, San Diego.
For over 30 years, she has studied the human brain using noninvasive
imaging. This work has focused on brain development and aging,
neurodevelopmental disorders, neuropsychiatric and substance use disorders,
and neurodegenerative disorders. For the last decade her central 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is excited to announce Professor Russel Poldrack will be
giving his talk *What's wrong with neuroimaging, and how can we make it
right?* on *Tuesday, May 18th at 12pm ET via Zoom. *He is the Albert Ray
Lang Professor in the Department of Psychology and Professor (by courtesy)
of Computer Science at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford
Center for Reproducible Neuroscience. His research uses neuroimaging to
understand the brain systems underlying decision making and executive
function. Please see the attached flyer for more information. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is pleased to announce Professor Kalanit Grill-Spector will
be giving her talk *Human visual cortex as a window into the developing
brain* on *Tuesday, April 20th at 12pm ET via Zoom. *Kalanit Grill-Spector
is a Professor in Psychology and the Stanford Neurosciences Institute. Her
research examines how the brain processes visual information and perceives
it. She uses functional imaging techniques to visualize the living brain in
action and understand how it functions to recognize people, objects and
places. Please see the attached flyer for more information. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Thank you to those who joined live for Professor Ido Davidesco's talk
*Brain-to-Brain
Synchrony in the Classroom* last Tuesday. If you missed it, you can access
a recording of the talk here <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fg6__Mb7MKmw&amp;data=04%7C01%7CBIRC_SPEAKER_SERIES-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7Cdb7b384faef54f0f7f8208d8e7cc60df%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637514212264448393%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=IG%2FFHkgqt3ApCyo4VMplqp4lqvqRVd%2BwYgE67nXKVDY%3D&amp;reserved=0>.

Please stay tuned for our next speaker, Professor Kalanit Grill-Spector
from Stanford University, on Tuesday, April 20th at 12 pm ET. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is pleased to announce Professor Ido Davidesco will be
giving his talk *Brain-to-Brain Synchrony in the Classroom* on *Tuesday,
March 9th at 12pm ET via Zoom. *Ido Davidesco, Ph.D., is an Assistant
Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Connecticut's Neag
School of Education. He is the recipient of the Next Generation Award from
the Society for Neuroscience. Professor Davidesco studies student
engagement in face-to- face and virtual classrooms using portable
Electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking methods. Please see the
attached flyer for more information. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is pleased to announce Professor Allyson Mackey will be
giving her talk *Environmental influences on brain development and
plasticity* on *Tuesday, February 23rd at 12pm ET via Zoom. *Professor
Mackey is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of
Pennsylvania and is the founder and director of the Changing Brain Lab. She
studies individual differences in brain plasticity and development with an
eye towards personalizing the type and timing of educational interventions.
She is a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, a Jacobs Foundation Scholar, and
serves on the Scientific Advisory Council of the National 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is pleased to announce Professor Dean Mobbs will be our
next speaker on *Tuesday, January 26th at 12pm ET via Zoom*. His talk is
titled *Space, Time and Fear: Survival Decisions along Defensive Circuits. *
He is currently Professor of Neuroscience and Chen Scholar at the
California Institute of Technology. Professor Mobbs is interested in the
intersection of behavioral ecology, economics, emotion, and social
psychology. By understanding the neural, computational and behavioral
dynamics of human social and emotional experiences, he wants to develop
theoretical models that merge those fields. Please see the attached flyer
 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is pleased to announce Professor Kou Murayama will be our
next speaker on *Tuesday, December 15th at 12pm ET via Zoom*. He is
currently a Humboldt Professor in the Hector Research Institute of
Education Sciences and Psychology at Tübingen University. Previously, he
held a faculty position at the University of Reading. His research focuses
on a number of overlapping questions about how motivation works in human
functioning. His talk is entitled *A reward-learning framework of
autonomous knowledge acquisition: **An integrated account of curiosity,
interest, and intrinsic-extrinsic rewards*. Please see the attached flyer
for more 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is pleased to announce our next speaker, Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki.
He is currently Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, at New York University
School of Medicine. Dr. Buzsaki is known for his work which focuses
on spatial and temporal relationships of brain oscillations organized in a
hierarchical fashion. On *Tuesday, December 1st from 3:30-5:00 pm ET*, he
will be giving a talk, *Ways to think about the brain.* Please see the
attached flyer for more information. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is pleased to announce our next speaker, Yunzhe Liu. He is a
PhD student working with Ray Dolan and Tim Behrens at University College
London. He works on the computational function of human replay in learning,
inference, and decision-making. On *Tuesday, October 20th from 12:00-1:00
pm ET*, Yunzhe will be giving his talk, *Human replay in learning and
inference.* We will also be joined by his mentor, Professor Tim Behrens,
who will give an introduction. For those who are familiar with our BIRC
Speaker Tag Series, Tim was “tagged” by a previous speaker, Professor
 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The UConn BIRC is pleased to announce our first talk of the fall semester.
On Tuesday, October 6th from 3:30-5:00pm ET, Professor Damien Fair of the
University of Minnesota giving his talk, Developmental Cognitive
Neuroscience in the Era of Big Data. He is currently a professor at
the Institute of Child Development in the College of Education and Human
Development and the Department of Pediatrics. Please see the attached flyer
for more information. 

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Hello,

This is a reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, July 7th, Professor Roshan Cools will give her talk, Chemistry of the adaptive mind: Lessons from dopamine, at 12pm ET via Zoom. For more information, please see the flyer attached to my original email below.

Registration is required to attend this seminar. Please register here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2YpyAZT&data=02%7C01%7C%7C8e2575c15d4a4513833d08d821af843e%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637296385009509412&sdata=DkgOxJD%2FqqzrQDot5hjwshj8uq6KOWO8FAWgkJ64Xo4%3D&reserved=0>. We ask that you please use your university/institution email address so we can track attendance. Once you are registered, you will receive an automatically generated email from Zoom with the meeting information. 

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Dear all,

The next BIRC speaker will be Professor Roshan Cools from Radbound University. She will give her talk, Chemistry of the adaptive mind: Lessons from dopamine, on Tuesday, July 7th at 12pm ET via Zoom. For more information, please see the attached flyer.

Registration is required to attend this seminar. Please register here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2YpyAZT&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca8190017057e41f379f908d817a8122a%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637285358982249768&sdata=cAMi%2BMTsmhN5bWFJwyShj6QN8n0ifAV4HiW8TBmOOEs%3D&reserved=0>. We ask that you please use your university/institution email address so we can track attendance. Once you are registered, you will receive an automatically generated email from Zoom with the meeting information. 

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Hello,

This is a reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, June 16th from 12-1:15pm ET, Professor Daphna Shohamy will give her talk entitled How Memory Guides Value-Based Decisions. For more information, please see the flyer attached to my original email below.

Registration is required to attend this seminar. Please register here.<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3f7xtDN&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cabe49b3b6de244048bf308d811701b1b%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637278520466995694&sdata=6MDC%2BFlE7xgFwb4nuWfvPL93IH0oqVw%2ByXzeUvTeGDE%3D&reserved=0> We ask that you please use your university/institution email address so we can track attendance. Once you are registered, you will receive an automatically generated email from Zoom with the meeting information. 

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Dear all,

On Tuesday, June 16th from 12-1:15pm ET, Professor Daphna Shohamy will give her talk entitled How Memory Guides Value-Based Decisions. Daphna Shohamy is a neuroscientist and professor of psychology at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute and a member of the Kavli Center for Brain Science. Dr. Shohamy’s research uses behavioral research, brain imaging, and studies with patients to explore the neural processes by which memory, learning, and decision making interact. Please see the attached flyer for a talk abstract and speaker bio. 

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Hello,

This is the final reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, June 2nd, Professor Danielle Bassett will give the second part of her talk, Perturbation and Control for Human Brain Network Dynamics from 12-1:15pm ET. For more information, including the abstract for this talk, please see the flyer attached to my previous email. 

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Hello,

Next Tuesday, June 2nd Professor Danielle Bassett will give the second part of her talk, Perturbation and Control for Human Brain Network Dynamics from 12-1:15pm ET. For more information, including the abstract for this talk, please see the flyer attached to my previous email.
A recording of Part One- Science as culture, is available here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbirc.uconn.edu%2Fpast-birc-speaker-series-presentations%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C255760e7e9a744a8fa3108d801dd25ec%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637261396626297324&sdata=%2BWB0K%2FCKJd2bSIcN65gyYig97DkQkKO9eJhng90aUnw%3D&reserved=0>. 

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Hello,

This is the final reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, May 19th at 12-1:15pm ET Professor Danielle Bassett of the University of Pennsylvania will be giving her talk, Science as Culture. This talk is the first part of a two part series. The second part will be Tuesday, June 2nd at 12-1:15pm ET. For more information, please see my previous email below and the attached flyer. 

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Hello all,

This is a reminder that Tuesday, May 19th at 12-1:15pm ET Professor Danielle Bassett of the University of Pennsylvania will be giving her talk Science as Culture. This talk is the first part of a two part series. The second part will be Tuesday, June 2nd at 12-1:15pm ET. For more information, please see my previous email below and the attached flyer. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

We are elated to announce the next BIRC Speaker will be Professor Danielle Bassett of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Basset is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with affiliations in the Departments of Bioengineering, Physics & Astronomy, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Neurology, and Psychiatry. She is also an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is most well known for her work blending neural and systems engineering to identify fundamental mechanisms of cognition and disease in human brain networks. She will be doing a two-part talk. Part one will be her 

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Hello all,

This is a reminder that the next BIRC Virtual Seminar is tomorrow, Tuesday, May 5th at 12-1:15pm ET via Zoom. Professor Nathan Spreng of McGill University will give his talk, Explorations into the default network of the human brain. Please see my previous email below for more information, including the flyer for this talk. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

The date and time of Professor Nathan Spreng's talk, Explorations into the default network of the human brain, has been rescheduled to Tuesday, May 5th from 12-1:15pm ET. This talk was originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 28th at 9am ET. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please see the updated flyer attached. As usual, please feel free to share! 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Thank you to those who virtually attended Professor Lucina Uddin’s talk this past Tuesday. The recording of her talk is now available here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbirc.uconn.edu%2Fpast-birc-speaker-series-presentations%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cbbc25286bfc3483eb27e08d7e4773da4%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637229073822842577&sdata=RijA8PwX3YP%2FAmQ36hFFhJDYMAVcASTK7ODdHpxEBRM%3D&reserved=0>. Closed captioning is coming soon.

The next virtual seminar will be on Tuesday, April 28th from 9-10:15am EST via Zoom. Professor Nathan Spreng will give his talk, Explorations into the default network of the human brain. He is an associate professor and the director of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the Montreal Neurological Institute in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University. His research examines large-scale brain network dynamics and 

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Hello,

This is the final reminder that tomorrow Tuesday, April 14th from 12-1:15pm EST via Zoom Professor Lucina Uddin will give her talk Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors.

Registration is required to attend this seminar. Please register here.<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3bMHAvY&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4676e3c7b13c426db54a08d7dfe5a023%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637224049628181796&sdata=SwZ2WMqJIbkQ7TPtJmbtTF5GsOb115qz76q%2B2u%2FycYw%3D&reserved=0> We ask that you please use your university/institution email address so we can track attendance. Once you are registered, you will receive an automatically generated email from Zoom with the meeting information. See the following tips for joining: 

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Hello,

This is a reminder that the next UConn BIRC virtual talk will be on Tuesday, April 14th from 12-1:15pm EST via Zoom. Professor Lucina Uddin will give her talk Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors.

Registration is required to attend this seminar. Please register here.<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3bMHAvY&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4d1382ee54554cae076008d7dccac385%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637220636460732787&sdata=0VVvEx1YTMuuMmYc6czQZzHD2TgBEO6wLPCR%2Fr%2Bgukk%3D&reserved=0> We ask that you please use your university/institution email address so we can track attendance. Once you are registered, you will receive an automatically generated email from Zoom with the meeting information. See the following tips for joining: 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Thank you to those who virtually attended Professor Daniel Ansari’s talk this past Tuesday. The recording of his talk is now available here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbirc.uconn.edu%2Fpast-birc-speaker-series-presentations%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3c1fb04f46d544b72bbd08d7d8be5cbd%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637216184412578751&sdata=DSg6K5hp9TRPS%2BlVjM5CLw3Hu9dFbOPmLowpKvu5Ljc%3D&reserved=0>. Closed captioning is coming soon.

The next virtual seminar will be on Tuesday, April 14th from 12-1:15pm EST via Zoom. Professor Lucina Uddin will give her talk Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors. She is associate professor and director of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Division at the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. Her current projects focus on understanding dynamic network interactions underlying cognitive inflexibility in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. For 

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Dear all,

I hope everybody continues to stay safe and healthy. This is the final reminder that Professor Ansari’s talk Number symbols in the brain and mind will be tomorrow, April 1st from 1-2:15pm EST via Zoom. Please see my original message for more details.

If you have not done so already, please register here using your university/institutional email address<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fucsf.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FuJ0lf-iurj8tHSz5TwZIwO0YzU-tWeqbyQ&data=02%7C01%7C%7C1bda4f70501f43a75e8208d7d5885f59%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637212653996111342&sdata=5cwaW1bV6FT7ZHylOQortfh89xNouUkuy%2B3UzyBCQ6I%3D&reserved=0>. 

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Hello,

This is a reminder that Professor Daniel Ansari will be giving a virtual-only talk Number symbols in brain and mind on Wednesday, April 1st from 1-2:15 EST via Zoom. Please see the attached flyer and my original email below for more details.

If you have not already done so, I encourage you to register here using your university/institutional email address<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fucsf.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FuJ0lf-iurj8tHSz5TwZIwO0YzU-tWeqbyQ&data=02%7C01%7C%7C2074a1c485114cf3cd9908d7d284e7c7%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637209340582385063&sdata=U918Yr%2FoPpcL%2FsBkyqkkKtRwYOID1mOJUjvxRcJrnJs%3D&reserved=0>. Registration is required to attend this seminar, but there is no password required. Once you are registered, you will receive an automatically generated email from Zoom with the meeting information. See the following tips for joining: 

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Dear BIRC Community,

I hope you are all staying safe and healthy during these unusual times. BIRC will cancel in-person talks and instead hold virtual-only talks in imaging on an irregular schedule. We invite you to join these virtual-only seminars via zoom for the remainder of the semester. The first will be held on Wednesday, April 1st from 1-2:15pm EST. Professor Daniel Ansari will give his talk Number symbols in brain and mind. He is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology and the Brain & Mind Institute at the University of 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Due to public health concerns surrounding COVID-19, the next BIRC Speaker Series scheduled for Tuesday, April 7th 2020 will be postponed to Tuesday, April 6th 2021. We are disappointed to have to wait to hear Dr. Martin’s talk, but believe this is in the best interest of our community to keep everybody safe and healthy. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

This is the last reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday March 3rd at 1:30-3pm EST will be Professor David Badre’s talk Prefrontal cortex and the hierarchical control of behavior. This talk will be held in Arjona 307 and live via Webex. More information is available in the original email below. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Thank you to those who attended our last talk by Professor Katarzyna Chawarska, Social and affective characteristics of infants and toddlers with ASD. If you missed it, the recording of her talk can now be found here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbirc.uconn.edu%2Fpast-birc-speaker-series-presentations%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd587a8281e94430b2c0f08d7b40e0b17%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637175845470692233&sdata=%2B%2FEmA4TUVjrMWn6jgfCJDAaGkv4NyFQPSO6JUDpAo0w%3D&reserved=0>.

Our next talk will be on Tuesday, March 3rd from 1:30-3:00pm EST in Arjona 307 and online via Webex. Professor David Badre will be visiting from Brown University to give his talk, Prefrontal cortex and the hierarchical control of behavior. He is currently Professor in Brown's Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, an affiliate of the Carney Institute for 

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Good evening,

This is the final reminder of the UConn BIRC Speaker Series talk by Proffesor Katarzyna Chawarska entitled Social and Affective Characteristics of Infants and Toddlers with ASD, which will be this Tuesday, February 4th at 1:30pm EST in Arjona307 and live via Webex.

To view this talk live via Webex, please register here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2tttcIF&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4d4448e9760b45132ba008d7a836f4da%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637162826301673429&sdata=gUXKLe%2Bx8cgqeGAI9D%2B2JNakXjgcg9hDwQ3AS0YsTDU%3D&reserved=0> as soon as possible. Once registered, you will receive an automatically generated email from Webex with a password. You will need this password in order to join.
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Hello,

This is a reminder that Professor Katarzyna Chawarska, PhD will give her talk Social and Affective Characteristics of Infants and Toddlers with ASD next Tuesday, February 4th at 1:30pm EST in Arjona307 and via Webex.

To view this talk live via Webex, please register here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2tttcIF&data=02%7C01%7C%7C01b5b335c91a4b6f0b5108d7a52cf545%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637159484818986643&sdata=NWs3k099HHTjZHR9vtlZARhPhVWWCuMhm0DIgkU8154%3D&reserved=0> as soon as possible. Once registered, you will receive an automatically generated email from Webex with a password. You will need this password in order to join. 

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Dear BIRC Community,

Professor Katarzyna Chawarska, PhD will give her talk Social and Affective Characteristics of Infants and Toddlers with ASD on Tuesday, February 4th at 1:30pm EST in Arjona307 and via Webex. She is Emily Fraser Beede Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Statistics and Data Science and the Director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience of Autism Program and the Yale Autism Center of Excellence Program at the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine. She specializes in early diagnosis of ASD as well as developmental follow-up of infants at risk for ASD due to familial, genetic factors, 

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Dear BIRC Community,

I hope you’ve had a wonderful winter break and are excited to attend some captivating talks in the spring semester as part of the UConn BIRC Speaker Series. This semester, talks will take place on the first Tuesday of each month at 1:30-3pm EST in Arjona 307 and live via Webex. The schedule for this semester is as follows: 

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