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| Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation |
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Google Tech Talks
February, 28 2008
ABSTRACT
Mindfulness meditation, one type of meditation
technique, has been shown to
enhance emotional awareness and psychological
flexibility as well as induce
well-being and emotional balance. Scientists have
also begun to examine how
meditation may influence brain functions. This
talk will examine the
effect of mindfulness meditation practice on the
brain systems in which
psychological functions such as attention,
emotional reactivity, emotion
regulation, and self-view are instantiated. We
will also discuss how
different forms of meditation practices are being
studied using
neuroscientific technologies and are being
integrated into clinical
practice to address symptoms of anxiety,
depression, and stress.
Speaker: Philippe Goldin
Philippe is a research
scientist and heads the Clinically Applied
Affective Neuroscience group in
the Department of Psychology at Stanford
University.
He spent 6 years in India and Nepal studying
various languages,
Buddhist philosophy and debate at Namgyal
Monastery and the Dialectic
Monastic Institute, and serving as an interpreter
for various Tibetan
Buddhist lamas. He then returned to the U.S. to
complete a Ph.D. in
Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. His
NIH-funded
clinical research focuses on (a) functional
neuroimaging investigations of cognitive-affective
mechanisms in adults with anxiety disorders, (b)
comparing the effects of mindfulness meditation
and cognitive-behavioral
therapy on brain-behavior correlates of emotional
reactivity and regulation, and (c) training
children in family and elementary school settings
in mindfulness skills to reduce anxiety and
enhance compassion, self-esteem and quality of
family interactions.
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| The Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience of Categorization, Novelty-Detec... |
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Google Tech Talks
November, 15 2007
ABSTRACT
Neurocomputational models provide fundamental
insights towards
understanding the human brain circuits for
learning new associations
and organizing our world into appropriate
categories. In this talk I
will review the information-processing functions
of four interacting
brain systems for learning and categorization:
(1) the basal ganglia which incrementally adjusts
choice behaviors using environmental
feedback about the consequences of our actions,
(2) the hippocampus which supports learning in
other brain regions through the creation of
new stimulus representations (and, hence, new
similarity
relationships) that reflect important statistical
regularities in the
environment,
(3) the medial septum which works in a
feedback-loop with
the hippocampus, using novelty-detection to alter
the rate at which
stimulus representations are updated through
experience,
(4) the frontal lobes which provide for selective
attention and executive
control of learning and memory.
The computational models to be described have been
evaluated through a variety of empirical
methodoligies including human functional brain
imaging, studies of
patients with localized brain damage due to injury
or early-stage
neurodegenerative diseases, behavioral genetic
studies of
naturally-occuring individual variability, as well
as comparative
lesion and genetic studies with rodents. Our
applications of these
models to engineering and computer science
including automated anomaly
detection systems for mechanical fault diagnosis
on US Navy
helicopters and submarines as well more recent
contributions to the
DoD's DARPA program for Biologically Inspired
Cognitive Architectures
(BICA).
Speaker: Dr. Mark Gluck
Mark Gluck is a Professor of Neuroscience at
Rutgers University - Newark, co-director of the
Rutgers Memory Disorders Project, and publisher of
the public health newsletter, Memory Loss and the
Brain. He works at the interface between
neuroscience, psychology, and computer science,
where his research focuses on the neural bases of
learning and memory, and the consequences of
memory loss due to aging, trauma, and disease. He
is the co-author of "Gateway to Memory: An
Introduction to Neural Network Models of the
Hippocampus and Memory " (MIT Press, 2001) and a
forthcoming undergraduate textbook, "Learning and
Memory: From Brain to Behavior." He has edited
several other books and has published over 60
scientific journal articles. His awards include
the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early
Career Contributions from the American
Psychological Society and the Young Investigator
Award for Cognitive and Neural Sciences from the
Office of Naval Research. In 1996, he was awarded
a NSF Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers by President Bill
Clinton. For more information, see
http://www.gluck.edu.
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Durée : 3733 s |
| Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory |
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Albert Bandura is arguably the most eminent living
psychologist. His Social Cognitive theory has
influenced many areas of inquiry: education,
health sciences, social policy and psychotherapy
among others. This film presents Dr. Bandura and
footage from some of his best-known research such
as the BoBo doll experiment, treatment for snake
phobias and the use of television dramas to convey
positive social messages. Dr. Bandura is a genial
host for the film that also includes much footage
from abroad showing the universality of his
concepts including the analysis of personal
efficacy and the social roots of moral behavior.
(2003 38 minutes) (This is a 4-minute sample clip
from the film) The film is part of the acclaimed
GIANTS OF PSYCHOLOGY series from Davidson Films,
Inc. that also introduces college students to the
work and lives of Mary Ainsworth, John Dewey, Erik
Erikson, Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget, B. F.
Skinner and Lev Vygotsky
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| Cognitive Technology on a Mobile Platform |
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Google Tech Talks
May, 27 2008
ABSTRACT
Mobile devices have great potential to increase
independence for people with cognitive
disabilities. Besides basic communication, which
is itself very important, key features include
location awareness, which can be used to help with
public transportation, and remote management,
which allows a caregiver to manage content, such
as schedule information, on a user's device. A
recent projects course at the University of
Colorado developed promising prototypes on the
Android platform, and suggested useful platform
enhancements, especially relating to speech
technology.
Speaker: Clayton Lewis
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| How Cognitive Theories Can Help Us Explain Autism |
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Uta Frith, Professor in Cognitive Development at
the University of London, looks at a whole causal
chain of step-by-step explanations for autism.
This causal chain is built by connecting biology
and behavior. and finding the middle ground -
cognition. Series: "M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture
Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [10/2006]
[Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical
Education] [Show ID: 11862]
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Durée : 2799 s |
| Cognitive Computing |
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Dr. Masoud Nikravesh: CITRIS Executive Director,
Computational Science and Engineering.
By combining high-performance computing,
mathematical modeling, scientific and engineering
theory, and analysis of large scale data bases of
observations, Computational Science and
Engineering (CSE) promises to bring a new paradigm
to interdisciplinary research and education. CSE
aims to advance solutions for a wide-range of
complex, real world, natural and social problems
in critical areas such as climate modeling,
astrophysics and astronomy, engineering better
search engines, neurosciences and cognitive
computing, geophysical modeling, parallel
computing, national defense, and
socio-economical-policy modeling, to name a few.
These problems are critical to scientific research
and education, economic and intellectual growth
with social impacts. CSE is a joint effort between
Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society (CITRIS), the Computing
Sciences Directorate at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, the College of Engineering, and the
College of Letters and Science.
Dr. Nikravesh started his academic and scientific
carrier as Postdoc researcher in Spring 1995 at
University of California-Berkeley (Materials
Science and Engineering Department) and Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory (Earth Sciences
Division) as joint appointment. Dr. Nikravesh was
Executive Director of BISC of the Computer Science
Division at the University of California, Berkeley
and the BT Senior Research Fellow. He worked for
NIOC from 1978 to 1990 and he was the senior
research scientist with EGI at the University of
Utah from 1998-2000. Dr. Nikravesh has published
nine books and over 200 papers on a wide range of
scientific and engineering applications. In
addition, he has been an invited lecturer
throughout the world including USA, China,
Germany, Hong Kong, Finland, Canada, UK, Turkey,
New Zealand, and Mexico as well as at many
conferences and scientific events. He has been a
member of IEEE, SPE, AAPG, SEG, ACS, NAFIPS, IFSA,
AICHE, and other scientific scholarly societies.
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