Dear students,

The Leiden University Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) presents the Sylvius Lectures, which seem quite nice! They are free and end with drinks. A short overview below, but for full details (location, etc), see http://www.libc-presents.nl/index.php/sylvius-lectures.

If you are interested in similar events, check out http://www.libc-presents.nl/.

Best,
Maarten
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Dick Swaab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam
The clock in our brain: circadian rhythms, aging and Alzheimer’s disease
Date and Time: Monday 6 February 2012, 5.00 pm

Axel Cleeremans, Université Libre de Bruxelles Consiousness, Cognition & Computation Group
Consciousness: The radical plasticity thesis
Date and Time: Thursday 15 March 2012, 4.30 pm

Pim Levelt, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Diagrams and diaries. How neural modeling of language acquisition took off
Date and Time: Thursday 12 April, 4.30 pm

Gabriella Vigliocco, University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Deaf Cognition
Date and Time: Thursday 7 June 2012, 4.30 pm

Stephen Smith, Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain
Mapping overlapping, dynamic brain networks from resting-state FMRI
Date and Time: Thursday 13 September 2012, 4.30 pm

Katharina Domschke, department of Psychiatry, University of Wuerzburg
Patho-genetics of anxiety
Date and Time: Thursday 25 October, 4.30 pm

Ulman Lindenberger, Max Planck Institute, The Center for Lifespan Psychology
The Aging Brain
Date and Time: Thursday 8 November 2012, 4.30 pm