1st Edition (2011)
GENERAL
1st edition of the Aspects of Neuroscience Conference took place in 2011, at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology in Warsaw. During the 3 conference days we heard 5 guest lectures, 14 symposia in 5 major sessions: Neurobiology, Neurocognition, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Neuroinformatics, Borderlines of Neuroscience; and a poster session. Conference had been held in Polish as the official language.
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Kacper Łukasiewicz
Anna Karcz
Małgorzata Zarzycka
Sylwia Purchla-Szepioła
Piotr Bogdanowicz
Paweł Mazurkiewicz
Zuzanna Borzymowska
Katarzyna Czajkowska-Łukasiewicz
Albert Bogdanowicz
Aleksandra Klemba
Marek Małagocki
Ewa Sitarska
Wojciech Solarek
Róża Węgleńska
under supervision of Magdalena Markowska, PhD.
Patronages:
Jej Magnificencji Rektor Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego Prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow
Dziekan Wydziału Biologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego Prof. dr hab. Joanna Pijanowska Polskiego Towarzystwa Badań Układu Nerwowego (PTBUN) Partnerzy i patroni medialni
Media:
NeuroDevice
Centrum Nauki Kopernik
Supermózg.pl
Avant – pismo awangardy filozoficzno-naukowej
Korepetycje.edu.pl
Dla studenta.pl
Students.pl
Catering Polski
ABSTRACT BOOK
1st Aspects of Neuroscience Conference Programme
LECTURE LIST
*Stimulation of gene activity as result of studying: a key to understanding synaptic plasticity.
Prof. Dr hab. Leszek Kaczmarek
*Stem cell and in-vitro microenvironmental bioengeneering and their application in neural-system diseases.
Prof. Dr hab. Leonora Bużańska
*Neurocognitivism. Brain as a point of interest for cognitive psychology.
Dr Małgorzata Gut
*Neural networks in brain research.
Prof. Dr hab. Ryszard Tadeusiewicz
*Psychology, physics and neuromarketing. Common characteristics and potential application.
Maciej Rudziński
STUDENT SYMPOSIA
I SESSION – Neurobiology
S1.1 Insects as model animals in neurobiology.
Paweł J. Mazurkiewicz
S1.2 The role of reward system in food intake.
Katarzyna Kmiotek
II SESSION – Neurocognition
S2.1 An attempt at unification of the theory for monitoring of the conflicts between reactions, mistake detection and learning through amplification.
Filip Gęsiarz
S2.2 Electrophysiological indices for attention deterioration by aging.
Mateusz Gola
S2.3 Neuronal correlates for presence awareness in a virtual environment.
Marta Łukowska
III SESSION – Neurology and neurosurgery
S3.1 Various aspects of stupor in terms of planned surgeries.
Jagoda Różycka
S3.2 One-sided lesion of cortical centers of the visual system two-sideddisorders of perceptive processes.
Michał Bola, Carolin Gall, Bernhard A. Sabel
S3.3 What affects the damaged spinal cord?
Marta Błaszkiewicz
IV SESSION – Neuroinformatics
S4.1 “Behind the scenes” of the brain-computer interfaces (BCI) as shown by the CAP3 system.
Justyna Janik
S4.2 How to analyze a signal? Various approches to creating the time-frequency maps in EEG research.
Marek Małagocki
S4.3 The process of synchronization according to the Kuramoto model.
Aleksiej Khrabrov
V SESSION – Borderlines of neuroscience
S5.1 Is the concept of conscious neuronal correlates of any use to philosophy?
Bartosz Janik
S5.2 Controversions around the face-processing mechanisms.
Mikołaj Magnuski
S5.3 How can neurobiology facilitate our getting up?
Michał Chiliński