Resources

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Calls for Papers

• WikiCFP
  A Wiki for Calls for Papers

Online Resources

• MIT World
  Distributed Intelligence
• Brain Science Podcast
  Hosted by Ginger Gampbell, MD

Journals

• Journal with extensive commentaries: good for gaining critical skills
  • Behavioural and Brain Sciences. Also see an alternative site.
• General science
  • Nature
  • Science
• Neuroscience
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neuron
  • Annual Review of Neuroscience
• Computational Neuroscience / Neural Networks
  • Neural Computation
  • Network -- Computation in Neural Systems
  • Journal of Computational Neuroscience
  • Neural Networks
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Biological Cybernetics
  • Neural Information Processing--Letters and Reviews
  • Neurocomputing
  • Cognitive Systems Research
• Review journals: a good place to start!
  • Nature Reviews: Neuroscience
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences (tamu access)
  • Trends in Neurosciences (tamu access)
  • Annual Review of Neuroscience
  • Annual Review of Psychology
• Vision
  • Vision Journals list by Max Mignotte at U of Montreal.
  • Preception
  • Journal of Vision (ARVO)
  • Vision Research
• Other:
  • International Journal of Unconventional Computing
  • Complexity
  • Adaptive Behavior
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Conferences

2011

• CNS*2011, 7/23-7/28/11, Stockholm, Sweden. 2/14/11 abstract due (11pm PST). 4/15/11 acceptance.
• AAAI 2011, 8/7-8/11/11, San Francisco, CA. 2/3/11 abstract due, 2/8/11 paper due, 3/30-4/1/11 rebuttal due, 4/15/11 notification, 5/3/11 camera ready due.
• IJCNN 2011, 7/31-8/5/2011, San Jose, CA. 2/1/11 paper due. 4/1/2011 notification. 5/1/2011 final.
• ICML 2011, 6/28-7/2/11, Bellevue, WA. 2/1/11 paper due. 3/25-3/30/11 feedback. 4/19/11 notification.
• NIPS 2011. 12/13-12/17/11, Granada, Spain.
• Cogsci 2011, Boston, MA. 7/20-7/23/11. 2/1/11 paper due. 4/1/11 notification. 5/1/11 photo ready.
• GECCO 2011, 7/12-7/16/11, Dublin, Ireland. 2/9/11 paper due. 3/23/11 notification. 4/18/11 camera ready.
• Vision conferences: http://iris.usc.edu/Information/Iris-Conferences.html

2010

• CNS 2010: Abstract due 2/14/10. Travel grant 5/5/10. Registration 5/15/10. 7/24/10–7/28/10 (workshop 7/29–7/30). San Antonio, TX,
• SAB 2010: 2/22/2010 paper due. 8/24/2010 (workshop). 8/24–8/28/2010. Paris, France.
• AAAI 2010: Paper registration due 1/15/10. Submission due 1/19/10. Notification 3/26/10. 7/11/10--7/15/10, Atlanta, GA.
• ICDL 2010: 8/18/10--8/21/10, Ann Arbor, MI.
• ISBI 2010: 4/14/2010--4/17/2010. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• WCCI 2010: 1/31/2010 submission due. 3/15/2010 notification. 7/18–7/23/2010, Barcelona, Spain.
• ICPR 2010: 1/25/2010 paper due. 8/23–8/26/2010, Istanbul, Turkey.
• IEEE EMBS Forum on Grand Challenges in Neuroengineering. 5/7–5/8/2010, Bethesda, MD.
• NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION * AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH * EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION - Joint US-European Workshop: 5/23–5/26/2010. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

2009

• IEEE CIMSVP 2009: 3/30-4/2/09 (due 10/31/08). Nashville, TN.
• CVPR 2009: 11/13 abstract due, 11/20 paper due; 6/22–6/25/09 in Miami, FL
• IJCNN 2009: 12/15/08 paper due; 6/14–6/19/09 in Atlanta, GA
• IJCAI 2009: 1/7/09 abstract due, 1/12/09 paper due; 7/11–7/17/09 in Pasadena, CA.
• CNS 2009: 2/09 deadline; 7/18–7/23/09 in Berlin, Germany.
• COSYNE 2009: 12/2/08 due; 2/26–3/3/09 in Salt Lake City, UT.
• ISBI 2009: 1/19/09 paper due; 6/29–7/1/09 in Boston, MA.
• ICDL 2009: 2/13/09 paper due; 6/5–6/7/09 in Shanghai, China.
• ICML 2009: 6/14–6/18/09 in Montreal, Quebec.
• WSOM 2009: 6/8–6/10/09 in St. Augustine, FL.

2008

• COSYNE 2008: 2/28-3/1, 2008; WS 3/3-3/4, 2008 (due 11/30/2007), Salt Lake City, UT
• ISBI 2008: 5/14-17, 2008 (due 12/7/2007). Paris, France
• CVPR 2008: 6/24-26, 2008 (due 11/26 reg, 12/3 full). Anchorage, AL
• AAAI 2008: 7/13-17, 2008 (due late January?). Chicago, IL
• Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2008: 7/7-13, 2008 (due 1/14/08; workshop proposals due 2/1/08) Osaka, Japan.
• Computational Neurosci 2008: 7/20-24, 2008 (due ?). Portland, OR
• Cogsci 2008: 7/23-26, 2008 (due: 2/1/2008). Washington, DC.
• IJCNN 2008: 6/1-6/6, 2008 (due late January, 2008?). Hong Kong
• ICML 2008: 7/6-7/9, 2008 (due ?). Helsinki, Finland
• ICPR 2008: 12/8-11, 2008 (due 4/8/2008). Tampa, FL.
• ICIP 2008: 10/12-15, 2008 (due ?). San Diego, CA.

AI, Cognitive Science, Vision, Philosophy, and Art

1. Artificial Intelligence
   • UCI Machine Learning Databases
   • AAAI: American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
   • AI Magazine Book Reviews: good review of AI-related books.
   • Discussion about AI on "The Next Big Thing" at the Open University.
2. Cognitive Science
   • Cognitive Science Society (Newsletter)
   • Cognoscenti (TAMU cognitive psychology seminars)
   • Celebrities in cognitive science by Martin Ryder
   • Micheal R. W. Dawson's cognitive science resources page (at U of Alberta, Canada)
     • Gallery of cognitive scientists by Michael R. W. Dawson.
     • The U of Alberta Dictionary of Cognitive Science
3. Vision
   • Illusion Forum
   • NSF/DARPA workshop on perceptio and action
   • Shimon Edelman's page: Representation and Recognition in Vision (Cornell)
4. Philosophy of Mind
   • Journal of Consciousness Studies
   • A field guide to philosophy of mind
   • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Some entries of interest include:

     action, behaviorism, cognitive science, connectionism, category theory, causation (causal processes), causation (probabilistic), identity theory of mind (mind==brain state), mental representation, philosophy of neuroscience,

   • Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind, Chris Eliasmith, Ed.
   • Consciousness and the brain: Annotated bibliography, Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton, Eds.
   • David Chalmer's homepage at U of Arizona
   • HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality, David G. Stork (Editor), MIT Press, 1996. (e-book)
   • The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
5. Analogy and Metaphor
   • Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting by Barbara Maria Stafford (TAMU access only).
   • A Survey of the Metaphor Field by Tony Veale (Dublin City Univ.).
   • Encyclopaedia Metaphorica, Tony Veale, Editor (Dublin City Univ.)
   • Philosophy In the Flesh: A Talk With George Lakoff, an interview with George Lakoff on Edge.
6. Animal Cognition
   • Intelligence in African Gray Parrots: A talk with Irene Pepperberg at edge.org. (Realplayer footage; Also see the Alex Foundation web page)
   • Colin Allen's page: Species of Mind (Texas A&M Philosophy)
7. Liberal Arts
   • Agora, a liberal arts portal (in Korean):
     • Deanima: Philosophy of mind and symbolic logic section.
8. Other
   • A New View of Statistics by Will G. Hopkins.
   • AAAS Essays on Science and Society (limited access).

Neuroscience

Computational

• Jim Perlewitz's Computational Neuroscience Resource Collection
• DeLiang (Leon) Wang: perception and neurodynamics (at Ohio State U)
• Eugene M. Izhikevich: Canonical model of neuron dynamics (at NSI).
• David Touretzky at CMU.
• Neural Networks for Computer Scientists by Wulfram Gerstner at EPFL, Switzerland.
• Computation Neuroscience by Dawei Dong at FAU.
• Collection of Neural Networks and Computational Neuroscience Courses by Sebastian Seung at MIT.
• Unsupervised Learning Course at Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at Cambridge (Fall, 2000)

Experimental

• Neuroscience @ NIH
• NIH Seminar Series: videocast of NIH seminars in Realplayer format.
• Neuroscience Tutorial at The Washington University School of Medicine.
• Neuroscience at TAMU: Louise C. Abbott, Frye, Grau, Griffith.
• Maunsell Lab at Baylor College of Medicine: attention in visual system.
• McCormick Lab at Yale Medical School: modulatory role of thalamus.
• Destexhe Lab at CNRS, France: computational models of thalamus.
• Huguenard Lab at Stanford: thalamocortical synchrony and epilepsy.
• dLGN info FAQ: nice summary of known facts about the lateral geniculate nucleus.
• TMS resource page by Risto Ilmoniemi
• TMS Resources by Matthew Kirkcaldie
• Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering

 

Related resources

• WikiCFP
• MIT World
• Brain Science Podcast