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[Photos] Conference: East-West Connections: Grand Challenges in Brain, Cognition and Good Life Research

Balázs Gulyás (Professor of Translational Neuroscience, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University) gives his introductory remarks.

Guy Orban (University of Parma, Italy) gives his talk, "The role of posterior parietal cortex in action observation: Cultural and other human-specific factors."

Peter Somogyi (University of Oxford, UK) gives his talk, "Temporal and spatial specialisations of rhythmic subcortical GABAergic neurons coordinating network activity of the hippocampal formation."

Tamás Freund (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) gives his talk, "The reciprocal GABAergic septo-hippocampal connection: Target selectivity and function related to theta oscillations."

Atsushi Iriki (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan) gives his talk, "Brain mechanisms of tool-use that advance our knowledge/world beyond the border."

Paul Matthews (Imperial College London, UK) gives his talk, "Understanding individual variation through the brain functional connectome."

Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany) gives his talk, "The encoding of semantic relations."

Mara Dierssen (CRG-Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain) gives her talk, "Brain disorders therapy: The need for shifting the paradigm."

Ernst Pöppel (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany) gives his talk, "The power of single case studies: Examples from the early visual pathway."

György Buzsáki (New York University, United States) gives his talk, "Emergence and mechanisms of cognition."

Fredrik Ullén (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) gives his talk, "Music as a window to the creating brain."

Jean Decety (The University of Chicago, United States) gives his talk, "Moral progress requires a coupling between empathy and reason - A social neuroscience perspective."

Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) gives his talk, "The neuroscience of working memory capacity and training."

Stanislas Dehaene (INSERM-CEA Cognitive NeuroImaging Unit, France) gives his talk, "Progress in understanding the representation of syntax in the human brain."

Sydney Brenner drops in to speak about why the human nervous system will be one of the most important areas of biological research.

Henrik Ehrsson (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) gives his talk, "Cognitive neuroscience of body self-perception."

Jan Vasbinder (Director, Para Limes, Nanyang Technological University) gives his closing remarks.

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