Center for Mind/Brain Sciences

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CIMeC Inauguration Symposium
On March 13 - 14, 2007 the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences was officially inaugurated by the scientific community in Italy and abroad by hosting a symposium on "Mind/Brain Sciences in the 21st Century".

Since 2005, the Center has grown from being a brilliant idea to hosting a few of the most challenging scientists in the world with some of the most advanced technologies in the field of mind/brain sciences.

Daniele Amati

Full Professor, International School for Advanced Studies (Italy)

Shlomo Bentin

Full Professor, Dept. of Psychology and Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University (Israel)

Marco Catani

Lecturer, Inst. of Psychiatry King’s College London (UK)

Maurizio Corbetta

Full Professor, Neurology, Radiology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University (USA)

John Duncan

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge (UK)

Richard Frackowiak

Professor of Cognitive Neurology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL London (UK) & Departement d’etudes cognitives, ENS Paris (France)

Albert Galaburda

Chief, Division of Behavioral Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School (USA)

Jonathan Ginzburg

Senior Lecturer, King’s College London (UK)

Marc Jeannerod

Inst. des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon (France)

Paolo Legrenzi

Full Professor, IUAV (Italy)

William Marslen-Wilson

Director, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge (UK)

Concetta Morrone

Università Vita-Salute S Raffaele (Italy)

Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Director of the Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation, Harvard Medical School, Director of Research at the Behavioral Neurology Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (USA)

Luigi Rizzi

Interdipartimental Center of Cognitive Studies on Language (Italy)

Alan Sanfey

Assistant Prof., University of Arizona (USA)

Tim Shallice

Int'l School for Advanced Studies (Italy)

Hinrich Schütze

Chair of Theoretical Computational Linguistics, Inst. for Natural Language Processing (Germany)

Elisabeth Spelke

Professor, Harvard (USA)

Dan Sperber

Directeur de Recherche Inst. Jean Nicod (CNRS, EHESS, ENS), Paris (France)

Lorraine Tyler

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge (UK)

Carlo A. Umiltà

Professor of Neuropsychology, Dept. of General Psychology, University of Padua (Italy)

Giorgio Vallortigara

Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience and Animal Cognition, Dept. of Psychology and B.R.A.I.N. Centre for Neuroscience, University of Trieste (Italy)

Elisabetta Visalberghi

Research Director, ISTC-CNR (Italy)