HBBL member Mengsen Zhang explores how individuals' emotional responses differ depending on whether they believe they are interacting with a machine or a human virtually. Zhang found "that humans exhibited greater emotional arousal when they thought the virtual partner was a human and not a machine, even though in all cases, it was a machine that they were interacting with." Read more.
Prof. Kelso gave an invited talk at The Ninth Olympiad of the Mind in Chania, Crete (Sept. 14-17) the topic of which was Learning to live together. Prof. Kelso's talk was entitled: "Walls and Borders and Strangers on the Shore: On Learning to Live Together from the Perspective of the Science of Coordination and The Complementary Nature." Read more.
HBBL wishes our long time friend, collaborator, and scientific inspiration Professor Dr. Dr (h.c.) Hermann Haken, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart–the father of laser theory and the originator of the interdisciplinary field of Synergetics–heartiest congratulations on his 90th birthday!!! Tributes to Prof. Haken and his work may be found in a specially prepared birthday volume entitled Synergetik als Ordner. J.Kriz & W.Tschacher (Eds). Pabst Science Pub., Lengerich, 2017.
Mengsen Zhang, a current Ph.D. student, gave a talk at this week's HBBL Meeting, entitled "From two to three: modeling metastable coordination dynamics in the multiagent scenario". She introduced a minimal model for studying triadic metastable coordination capable of reproducing key patterns in experimental data and showed how gradual change in frequency or coupling strength could induce a sudden change in the topology of coordination patterns.
Mengsen Zhang, a current Ph.D. student of HBBL, presented her talk at Conference on Complex Systems 2017, in Cancun, Mexico, entitled "Multiagent Coordination Dynamics: The Human Firefly Experiment." Read more.
Dinesh Nair, MD, Ph.D., one of our former Ph.D. students, now a Neurologist affiliated with Harvard-MGH marching for Science in Boston. We are with you, Dinesh! — And all the other Centerites who marched for Science!
Professor Linda Smith, Chancellors Distinguished Professor at Indiana University visited the HBBL on Wednesday, February 8th. Dr. Smith gave an intriguing lecture that afternoon entitled "The dynamics of environments: the co-development of infant and environment".
Professor Linda Smith, Chancellors Distinguished Professor at Indiana University will give a Lecture on Wednesday, February 8th, at 4 pm in BS-12 Room 303. Professor Smith is one of the top developmental psychologists and cognitive scientists in the world and has received numerous honors for her work, including the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions and the Rumelhart Prize of the Cognitive Science Society (both in 2013).
She is one of the chief proponents of the dynamical systems approach to development and we are hoping she will give us an update on the status of her research which focuses on the early perceptual, motor, and cognitive development.
HBBL member (soon-to-be Dr) Craig Nordham successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation on November 4th, 2016, entitled "How interpersonal coordination changes the self: theory, experiment, and adaptive HKB model of social memory". Congratulations!
Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos of the University of Minnesota recently visited us at HBBL providing valuable comments on short presentations by HBBL members (Kelso, Fuchs, Tognoli, Nordham, Zhang and Stefanescu). He gave a lecture at the Neuroscience Seminar entitled "Informative Neural Interactions" on the same day.
Professor Scott Kelso introduced Dr. Bennet Omalu, the discoverer of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in NFL football players–and the focus of the movie "Concussion"–at a recent event held by FAU's incredible Lifelong Learning Society in Jupiter. Read more.
HBBL's fearless leader Prof. J A Scott Kelso gave some invited lectures at the world-famous Weizmann Institute in Israel from November 5-11.
FAU and University MRI have entered into a joint research agreement to propel the University’s focus in the neurosciences and provide researchers with access to the newest imaging technologies available today. The Human Brain Imaging Facility (HBIF) is the brainchild of Fred Steinberg, M.D., medical director of University MRI, and J.A. Scott Kelso, Ph.D. Read more.
After productive stays at Emory, Florida, and Michigan, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Roxana Stefanescu as a Research Scientist at HBBL. Roxana was an outstanding student at the Center, completing her Ph.D. in Physics under Viktor Jirsa in December 2009. Roxana will bring her special theoretical, computational, and experimental skills to bear on our NIMH grant "Neuromarkers of Social Coordination: A Dynamical Approach".
Dr. Bernat Kocsis, a former Centerite, visited HBBL on September 29th, 2015. Dr. Kocsis is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He gave a lecture later that day entitled "Oscillatory coupling between prefrontal cortex and hippocampus; possible role of nucleus reuniens of the thalamus" at the Neuroscience Seminar.
Dr. Robert Butera from Georgia Institute of Technology (Butera lab) visited HBBL on October 27th, 2015, exchanged scientific ideas with HBBL members from various generations. Later, he gave a lecture at the Neuroscience Seminar, entitled "Selective nerve block using kilohertz stimulation".
Prof. Scott Kelso delivered the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Lecture to The Claremont Colleges on June 17, 2015, entitled "Coordinated Movement: Making the Familiar Strange".
HBBL lecture on Thursday, August 20th at 3 pm, in BS12 room 303.
Gerardo Estrada, who will soon receive his Doctoral degree from the FAU Physics department, will present: "Improving In Vivo Two-Photon Microscopy Brain Imaging Without Adaptive Optics." Read more.
Professor J. A. Scott Kelso was invited as the keynote speaker at the opening session of the 18th Herbstakademie in Heidelberg, Germany, March 26-28. His talk "De Agencia" was on the dynamical origins of the agency. Read more.
Dr. Theodore Zanto (link) from the University of California, San Francisco visited the HBBL and presented a lecture on Thursday, January 22nd, at 4 pm, in BS-12 Room 303, entitled "Non-invasive brain stimulation in humans." Read more.
Dr. Jodie McNeilly of Australian Catholic University is visiting the HBBL this week. She will present a lecture entitled "Methods of Phenomenology" on Wednesday, October 29th, at 1:30 pm in BS-12 Room 401B.
The HBBL received Dr. Robert Levy's visit from Marcus Neuroscience Institute on Oct 14th, 2014. Dr. Levy was the guest speaker at the Neuroscience Seminar. The title of the lecture was "The Present and Future of Neuromodulation". He presented a broad range of intriguing applications of electrical stimulation on the treatment of chronic pain and neurological (related) diseases or symptoms.
Dr. Friederike Hohlefeld is visiting the HBBL from Berlin, Germany. She will present us a lecture in BS-12 room 303 at 4 pm, August 28th. The title of her lecture is "To move and not to move – neural variability and quasi-movements in the Parkinsonian and healthy motor system." Read more.
Prof. John Jeka, a former Center student and PhD graduate (1992) will receive FAU's Distinguished Alumni Award at a Hall of Fame Ceremony on Tuesday, April 29. Dr. Jeka will present a talk in BS303 at 2.00pm on Tuesday April 29 entitled: "Being Human: Under-Actuated and Over-Sensed." For more information, click here.
Dr. J. A. Scott Kelso will present "Crick's Conjecture and the Coordinative Structures of the Brain: Why Neuroscience needs a Complex Systems Perspective" at the FAU Neuroscience Seminar, on April 1st at 4:00pm, at the Engineering East Building, Room EE106 (Videoconference to Jupiter Campus Room MC-19, Room #201 & Davie Campus, Room LA-148). Read more.
The HBBL received the visit of Dr. Péter Érdi, from Kalamazoo College yesterday. You can find an overview of his work here.
HBBL received today the visit of Dr. Charlie Gray, from Montana State University. Dr.Gray as most of you surely know, is most famous for his discovery of inter-columnar synchronization in the cat's visual cortex [Gray et al., Nature 338 (6213), 334-337], and for much other work, overview here. Read more.
HBBL received today the visit of Dr. Helen Barbas, from the University of Boston. Visit her Google Scholar profile for an overview of her work here.
The HBBL had the pleasure to receive the visit of Dr. Laura Colgin, from the University of Texas at Austin today. Read more.
The HBBL had the pleasure to receive the visit of Dr. Mukeshwar Dhamala, from Georgia State University today. You can find his publications on his Google Scholar profile.
Welcome to Charles Cooper, a new associate member of HBBL!
The HBBL presented three posters at SfN this year. You can access all of them on FigShare.
Emmanuelle Tognoli and Scott Kelso were awarded a patent called the five dimensional (5D) colorimetric (5D) technique. The method is designed to interpret large data-sets with complex spatio-temporal patterns, such as neuroimaging data. Read more.
Pr. Matthew Wilson was the guest of the FAU Neuroscience Seminar on Wednesday, October 23th. He gave a talk entitled: "Sequential event memory formation and reactivation in the hippocampus and beyond." The people from the Center of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences had also the chance to discuss with him before the seminar.
Pr. Paul van Geert was the guest of the FAU Psychology Department Colloquium on Thursday, October 31th. He gave a talk entitled: "Dynamic network models in developmental psychology: The case of talent and excellence."
Prof. Howard Eichenbaum from Boston University was the guest of the FAU Neuroscience Seminar on Tuesday, November 5th. He gave a talk entitled: "The hippocampus in space and time"
Pr. J.A. Scott Kelso will speak at the 2nd Delft International Conference "Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design" — 10-12 October 2013. Read more.
Pr. Danielle Bassett was the guest of the FAU Neuroscience Seminar on Tuesday, October 8th. She gave a talk entitled: "Probing brain network dynamics during learning."
The HBBL has the great pleasure to welcome a new member: Ms. Mengsen Zhang.
Dr. Helen Mayberg visited the HBBL today. She discussed with us her work on deep brain stimulation applied to patients with major depression. The exchange was at the cross-roads of complexity and phenomenology, focusing on the complementarity of states and transition at both the brain and behavior levels.
Have a look at some sights from this year's Society for Neuroscience conference, which was held in New Orleans, LA. Several members of the lab presented posters. In addition, a few members of the lab gave talks at the pre-conference symposium, also pictured here.
In preparation for this year's Society for Neuroscience conference in New Orleans, here are some photographs of last year's conference in Washington, D.C. Read more.
In this roundtable, we will explore: movement and objects as distinctively different "things" to study and kinesthesia, the evolution of social coordination, and the value of nurturing and pursuing a moving life with all its risks and challenges. Read more.
HBBL members are invited participants in the NIMH the XX Satellite Symposium "Collective cognition: The neurophysiology of Social Neuroscience."
The HBBL will give six poster presentations this year at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in New Orleans. Click here to view the presentations.
… on your screens and in your brains!
Dr. Roxana Stefanescu presented a talk entitled "fMRI neuro markers of social coordination: preliminary insights" at the HBBL Meeting, October 18th, 2018 at 3 pm in Room 401b of BS-12.
HBBL meeting on Wednesday, May 10th at 4 pm, in BS12 room 401B. Dr. Silke Dodel will present: "Relating Structure, Function, and Dynamics in Networks."
The Social Virtual Brain: development and possible applications By Dr. Roxana Stefanescu Wednesday, 9/28, 3 pm in BS-12 Room 401B.
HBBL meeting on Thursday, September 10th at 4:30 pm, in BS-12 room 401B. Dr. Armin Fuchs, Lee-Kuen Chua and Craig Nordham will tell us about: "The State of the Makaila Project".
HBBL meeting on Thursday, February 19th at 4pm, in BS12 room 303. Chuck Cooper will present: "Machine Learning Techniques for Neuroscience Research".
HBBL meeting on Thursday, January 15th at 4 pm, in BS12 room 401B. Dr. Anand Ramamoorthy will present: "Virtual Partner Interaction: Personalities & Preferences."
HBBL meeting on Thursday, October 16th at 4pm, in BS12 Room 401B. Mengsen Zhang will present: "Emotion and motion in virtual social coordination".
HBBL meeting on Thursday, August 21th at 4pm, in BS12 room 401B. Dr. Anand Ramamoorthy will present: "From learning and cognitive control to sensemaking: phases and transitions in my research experience."
HBBL meeting on Thursday, April the 17th at 4pm, in BS12 room 401B. Mengsen Zhang will present: "A Glance at Parallel Computing – GPU in Wavelet Transform and Beyond".
HBBL meeting on Thursday, March 27th at 3pm, in BS12 room 401B. Dr. Guillaume Dumas will present: "Probing Self~Other Coordination Dynamics with the Human Dynamic Clamp".
There will be a HBBL meeting this Friday, March the 7th (note change of day) at 3 pm in BS12 room 303. Eight years after his departure to France, Dr Lagarde is back to the HBBL to present: "Multimodal coordination dynamics".
There will be a HBBL meeting this Thursday, February the 20th at 4pm in BS12 room 303 (note change of room), and Charles Cooper will present: "Basic Concepts and Methods of Machine Learning".
There will be an HBBL meeting this Thursday, February the 13th at 4pm in BS12 room 401B, and Dr Armin Fuchs will present: "Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries – Acute State and Short-term Recovery".
HBBL meeting on Thursday, February 6th at 4pm, in BS12 room 401B. Craig Nordham will present: "Evidence for social coordination memory in self-movement following the 'we-to-me' transition".
HBBL meeting on Thursday, January 23rd at 4pm, in BS12 room 401B. Dr. Guillaume Dumas will present: "A non-verbal Turing test of Virtual Partner Interaction, Part II: Brain and Brain~Behavior".
HBBL meeting on Thursday, January 9th, at 4pm in room 401B (Behavioral Science BS#12).
The HBBL will have the pleasure to welcome Dr. Charles (Chuck) Cooper as a new member of the team, and Dr. Emmanuelle Tognoli will present "The Metastable Brain".
HBBL meeting on Wednesday, September 18th, at 4pm in room 401B (Behavioral Science BS#12). Mengsen Zhang will present "A Selection of Metaphors".
HBBL meeting on Friday, August 23rd at 2pm in Room 401B (Behavioral Science BS#12). Dr Vyacheslav Murzin will present "Component analysis in topographical EEG." We will also welcome Ms Mengsen Zhang who has just arrived and is joining the HBBL.
HBBL meeting on Wednesday, July 24th at 4 pm in Room 401B. Dr Emmanuelle Tognoli will present: "Enduring questions on mu rhythms' contribution to social behavior".
HBBL meeting on Thursday, May 30th at 3pm in Room 401B. Dr Chris Beetle will present: "Collective Dynamics in the Kuramoto Model".
HBBL meeting on Thursday, March 21th, 2013 at 4pm, room 401B. Dr Guillaume Dumas will present "A nonverbal Turing test of Virtual Partner Interaction: Part I – Behavior."
HBBL meeting on Thursday, April 11th at 4pm in Room 401B. Dr. Viviane Kostrubiec will present "Impossible road toward excellence: how to take it?" by Kostrubiec & Zanone. Read more.
HBBL meeting on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 4pm, room 401B. Dr Guillaume Dumas will present "The Multiple Scales of Intra- and Inter-Brain Functional Networks." Read more.
HBBL meeting on Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 4pm, room 401B. Prof. James Alexander Scott Kelso will share with us "The Visionary Inspiring Works of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone and The Paradigm of the Future." Read more.
HBBL meeting on Thursday, November 15th, 2012 at 4pm, room 401B. Dr Vyacheslav Murzin will present "Neural source localization with beamforming: current advances and challenges."
HBBL meeting on Thursday, January 13th, 2013 at 4pm, room 401B. Dr Emmanuelle Tognoli will present "Extracellular field contribution to a globally conscious brain." Read more.
HBBL meeting on Thursday, November 8th, 2012 at 4pm, room 401B.
Dr Guillaume Dumas will present "Probing Coordination Through the Virtual Partner Interaction."
Dr. J. A. Scott Kelso’s (Ed.) new book, entitled “ Learning To Live Together: Promoting Social Harmony “, has recently been published in electronic and printed form.
HBBL members Mengsen Zhang, J. A. S. Kelso & Emmanuelle Tognoli recently published a new article on PLOS ONE, entitled “ Critical diversity: Divided or united states of social coordination “.
“How does it ‘feel’ to interact behaviorally with a machine?” To answer that question, scientists created a virtual partner that can elicit emotional responses from its human partner in real-time.
Guillaume Dumas, Gonzalo C. de Guzman, Emmanuelle Tognoli, and J. A. Scott Kelso. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014.
Drs. Emmanuelle Tognoli and J.A. Scott Kelso published a new article on "The Coordination Dynamics of Social Neuromarkers" in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Read more.
"Outline of a general theory of behavior and brain coordination" by Scott Kelso, Guillaume Dumas, and Emmanuelle Tognoli. In Neural Networks, Volume 37, January 2013 – 25th Anniversary Commemorative Issue.
FAU and University MRI have entered into a joint research agreement to propel the University’s focus in the neurosciences and provide researchers with access to the newest imaging technologies available today.