3rd IITD­NBRC workshop Mind, Language, and Society Cognitive Perspectives on Human Behaviour 16th January 2016, IIT Delhi (IV LT3) Time slot Speaker(s) 10.00 ­­ 10.10 Anindya Ghosh Roy (NBRC), Sumeet Agarwal (IITD) 10.10 ­­ 10.40 Kranti Saran (Ashoka/Harvard) Welcome and Introduction ‘Myness’ isn’t positive 10.40 ­­ 11.10 K. P. Kochhar / Ashlesh Patil (AIIMS) Applications of Functional Brain Mapping: Perspectives and Possibilities in Physiology and Clinical Medicine 11.10 ­­ 11.40 Cognition and Brain Reserves at the Extremes of Human Endurance: Evidence from Ultra High­altitude Studies Prasun Kumar Roy (NBRC) 11.40 ­­ 11.55 Tea break 11.55 ­­ 12.55 Samar Husain, Pritha Chandra, Paroma Sanyal, Ashwini Vaidya (IITD) Language Variation: Theoretical and Processing Perspectives​
(panel discussion) 12.55 ­­ 13.25 G Vinod Kumar (NBRC) Predictive coding in multisensory speech perception 13.25 ­­ 14.45 Lunch break (lunch will be provided only for speakers and external guests) 14.45 ­­ 15.15 Rahul Garg (IITD) Full­brain Autoregressive Modeling using fMRI Data 15.15 ­­ 15.45 Soumya Iyengar (NBRC) Cognition in Corvids – an Avian Model System 15.45 ­­ 16.15 Rukmini Bhaya Nair / Purnima Singh (IITD) The DST­IITD Project on Language, Emotion, Culture (The 'LEC' Project): Some Results 16.15 ­­ 16.30 Title Tea break 16.30 ­­ 17.00 Suman Jain (AIIMS) Prenatal perceptual learning: effect of auditory overstimulation in a chick model 17.00 ­­ 17.30 James Gomes (IITD) Neurodegenerative disease analysis and prediction 17.30 ­­ 18.00 Ellora Sen (NBRC) Self construal: The East­West dichotomy and its implications Practical information for IITD­NBRC workshop, 16th January 2016, IIT Delhi Venue The workshop will be held in IV LT3, a large lecture theatre in front of Block IV of our main academic building. A map showing the location of the lecture theatre, the walking route from the main gate, and the location of the visitors’ parking lot is on the next page, and also at https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zx9Ag3QVx9v0.ktQPk3Xl4Bu8&usp=sharing​
. Lunch venue For speakers and external guests, lunch has been arranged at the Faculty Guest House on campus. This is also marked on the map, and of course several of us will be around to accompany you there at lunchtime. WiFi If your institution is part of the EDUROAM network, you can use your institutional account to log on directly to the ​
eduroam​
SSID. Otherwise, please contact one of the organisers to create a guest account for you. Contacts In case of any difficulty finding the venue or any other query/assistance, please feel free to call one of us: Faculty organisers Sumeet Agarwal (9910368709) Rajakrishnan Rajkumar (9560391995) James Gomes (9958481338) Student volunteers Parul Jain (9891121773) Sahil Loomba (9999059200) Tarun Mahajan (9582039169) Vaibhav Grover (9810005551) Arpit Agrawal (9818399544) IITD-NBRC workshop 16012016
Key locations
Main Gate
IV LT3
Visitors' Parking
Walking route from Main Gate
to IV LT3
Faculty Guest House