The Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at IIT Gandhinagar conducted the 3rd International Conference on Cognition, Brain and Computation from December 5 – 7, 2015. The conference brought forward the interdisciplinary dialogue between neuroscience and computational approaches in the study of cognition.

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Dr Sudhir Jain addressing the audience

The conference saw a range of international and national experts on cognition, neuroscience and computation:

International Speakers:
  • Britt Anderson, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA
  • Georgios Christopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Mehdi Khamassi,  Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, CNRS, France
  • Anjan Chatterjee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Tsutomu Fujinami,  Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Nitish Thakor,  Singapore Institute of Neurotechnology
  • Bhismadev Chakrabarti,  University of Reading, UK
  • Anirban Dutta,  INRIA, France
National Speakers:
  • Raju S. Bapi
  • V. S. Chakravarthy
  • Aditya Murthy
  • S. P. Arun
  • Nandini Singh
  • Narayanan Srinivasan
  • Gayathri Swahar
  • Chandrasekhar Pammi
  • Supriya Ray
  • Kamal Chaudhary
  • Arpan Banerjee

Through this conference the centre encouraged discussions and collaborations on cognition, brain and computation across disciplines and methodologies.

Attendees of the 3rd International conference on Cognition, Brain and Computation