CogniTalks, an initiative by the Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences invited speakers from various domains under one roof to discuss their expertise and inspire interdisciplinarity among students. CogniTalks was conducted on September 8, 2017 at IIT Gandhinagar.

The Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences hosted the third annual meeting of the Association for Cognitive Science. The conference was held from 3 – 5 October 2016 and invited neuroscientists, linguists, educators, behavioural scientists, computer scientists, and primatologists for talks, posters and discussion sessions.

Dr Pratik Mutha addressing the audience

Speakers for the sessions include:

• Sonali Nag, Promise Foundation in Bangalore
• Brenden Weekes, Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Hong Kong
• Neeraj Jain, National Brain Research Centre
• Anindya Sinha, National Institute of Advanced Studies
• Srinivasa Chakravarthy, IIT Madras

Attendees of the ACCS 2016 conference

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:

• 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

• 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