Carleton University will host the 25th Annual Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting (CSBBCS) from June 5 to 7, 2015. Speakers come from all levels, from graduate students to senior scientists. Presentations will cover research that may have far-reaching implications for treating of a number of central nervous system disorders, including addiction, spinal injury and depression.
When: June 5 to June 7, 2015
Where: The Westin Ottawa and Carleton University
Full Program: https://www.csbbcs.org/2015/public/conferences/1/schedConfs/1/program-en_US.pdf.
The Friday, June 5, 2015 events will be held jointly with the Canadian Psychological Association Convention and will take place at The Westin Ottawa. These events will include a poster session and a keynote address by Prof. Elizabeth Phelps, New York University. All other CSBBCS meeting activities, including the Past President’s Symposium, the D.O. Hebb Award talk, the Early Career Award talk, the banquet, the regular symposia and the remaining poster sessions will take place at Carleton, Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7, 2015.
Events of Interest
- On Saturday, June 6, 2015 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. a symposium will take place entitled Probing the Link Between Brain and Behavior with Optogenetics.
Optogenetics highlights technological advances in optics and genetics to control and monitor the activities of individual neurons in living tissue to precisely measure the effects in real-time. This symposium will highlight work that has used this technique to probe the complexities of how the central nervous system functions.
- On Saturday, June 6, 2015, Prof. Chris Herdman will give a tour of Carleton’s Advanced Cognitive Engineering Laboratory (ACE Lab). Those interested should arrive at the welcome table, in the Atrium of the River Building at 4:30 p.m.
The mission of the lab is to discover fundamental principles of human perception and cognition and to apply these principles to the design, implementation and evaluation of advanced human-machine systems. In recent years, the lab has focused on a variety of research questions, including how age-related changes in cognitive functioning affect performance and flight safety in recreational pilots; how spatial working memory mediates the impact of motion-cueing systems in flight training; how cell phone conversations may lead to driver distraction; and how computer-based training systems can enhance air search and rescue training programs.
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