Speaker: Professor Olaf Sporns (Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Robert H. Shaffer Chair, Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Date: Friday 26 February 2021
Time: 15-17 h (Central European Time, i.e. Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin).
Location: online lecture. Zoom link: https://radbouduniversity.zoom.us/j/86372434089?pwd=UDU1ZjJGMWh3S1FDWnFNbWsweG1xdz09
Video recording of the talk
Brain Graphs, Network Communities, Dynamic Modularity: The Evolving Quest to Link Structure and Function
Linking structure to function is a key challenge in neuroscience – How does a complex web of neurons give rise to dynamics and behavior? Understanding the organization of brain graphs (networks), their community structure and time-varying topology is key to tackling this challenge. Network Neuroscience is an emerging field dedicated to understanding structure and function of neural systems across scales, from neurons to circuits to the whole brain. In this presentation I will review current themes and future directions, including structure/function relationships, use of computational models to map information flow and communication dynamics, and a novel edge-centric approach to functional connectivity. I will argue that network neuroscience represents a promising theoretical framework for understanding the complex structure and functioning of nervous systems.
After receiving an undergraduate degree in biochemistry, Olaf Sporns earned a PhD in neuroscience at Rockefeller University and then conducted postdoctoral work at The Neurosciences Institute in New York and San Diego. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington. His main research area is theoretical and computational neuroscience, with a focus on complex brain networks. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications as well as the recent books “Networks of the Brain” and “Discovering the Human Connectome”, both published by MIT Press. Sporns was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2011 and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.
For more information about The Dutch Distinguished Lecture Series in Philosophy and Neuroscience and the program of talks for this semester, please click here.
Organiser(s): Daniel Kostic, Henk de Regt, Leon de Bruin, Marc Slors, Peter Hagoort
and Gerrit Glas.
Date: Friday 26 February 2021
Time: 15-17 h (Central European Time, i.e. Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin).
Location: online lecture. Zoom link: https://radbouduniversity.zoom.us/j/86372434089?pwd=UDU1ZjJGMWh3S1FDWnFNbWsweG1xdz09
Video recording of the talk
Brain Graphs, Network Communities, Dynamic Modularity: The Evolving Quest to Link Structure and Function
Linking structure to function is a key challenge in neuroscience – How does a complex web of neurons give rise to dynamics and behavior? Understanding the organization of brain graphs (networks), their community structure and time-varying topology is key to tackling this challenge. Network Neuroscience is an emerging field dedicated to understanding structure and function of neural systems across scales, from neurons to circuits to the whole brain. In this presentation I will review current themes and future directions, including structure/function relationships, use of computational models to map information flow and communication dynamics, and a novel edge-centric approach to functional connectivity. I will argue that network neuroscience represents a promising theoretical framework for understanding the complex structure and functioning of nervous systems.
After receiving an undergraduate degree in biochemistry, Olaf Sporns earned a PhD in neuroscience at Rockefeller University and then conducted postdoctoral work at The Neurosciences Institute in New York and San Diego. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington. His main research area is theoretical and computational neuroscience, with a focus on complex brain networks. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications as well as the recent books “Networks of the Brain” and “Discovering the Human Connectome”, both published by MIT Press. Sporns was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2011 and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.
For more information about The Dutch Distinguished Lecture Series in Philosophy and Neuroscience and the program of talks for this semester, please click here.
Organiser(s): Daniel Kostic, Henk de Regt, Leon de Bruin, Marc Slors, Peter Hagoort
and Gerrit Glas.