Navigating the nearly 9,000 presenters, 999 poster sessions, and hundreds of exhibits, panels, and other events happening virtually at Neuroscience 2021 might feel overwhelming. But planning your schedule now can help you manage your days and get the most out of your meeting experience.

Building support for science one conversation at a time

Urge Congress to Support Neuroscience Research in FY2024 Your story, as a constituent, is incredibly powerful on Capitol Hill. Join your fellow NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to support neuroscience priorities and increase research funding for Fiscal Year 2024. Send your Representative and Senators a message via SfN’s Advocacy Action Center and personalize it by including why robust federal funding is critical to your research and necessary to advance our understanding of the brain.

Urge Congress to Support Neuroscience Research in FY2024 Your story, as a constituent, is incredibly powerful on Capitol Hill. Join your fellow NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to support neuroscience priorities and increase research funding for Fiscal Year 2024. Send your Representative and Senators a message via SfN’s Advocacy Action Center and personalize it by including why robust federal funding is critical to your research and necessary to advance our understanding of the brain.

As the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and central nervous system, SfN is a strong advocate of the research made possible by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Are patterns of coactivity of hippocampal neurons selected at random, or is there a propensity for some cells to exhibit strong correlations over many different experiences? This question has been the subject of controversy for several decades. Most studies have been performed in one or a few rather small environments in which the sample of the possible state space of the network is small. CA1 pyramidal cell activity was recorded while rats walked down and back along a long (13m x 2m) corridor. Few locations were visited more than once. As predicted by the random allocation model, the variance of the distribution of firing rate correlations became compressed around zero as compared to typical periods of repetitive track running. Moreover, the distribution of mean firing rates became significantly less sparse, again in agreement with the random model. This suggests that synaptic weight vectors of CA1 pyramidal cells are essentially uncorrelated. The degree of memory trace reactivation (Wilson and McNaughton...

Like you, I have watched with dismay and grave concern a number of actions taken by the Administration in the past few weeks that will prove devastating to scientific research in the U.S. The scientific enterprise depends on robust research investment from the federal government, much of it channeled into U.S. universities through federal grants.

The increased popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, including generative AI tools, has important implications for neuroscience research and education. This timely short course will cover AI in relation to the following subtopics: (a) data acquisition/analysis; (b) manuscript, grant writing, and publishing; and (c) trainee/student education. Experts will discuss machine learning, data recording and analysis, plagiarism/image manipulation risks, funding agency policies, and mentor-mentee relationships in the context of AI.

The increased popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, including generative AI tools, has important implications for neuroscience research and education. This timely short course will cover AI in relation to the following subtopics: (a) data acquisition/analysis; (b) manuscript, grant writing, and publishing; and (c) trainee/student education. Experts will discuss machine learning, data recording and analysis, plagiarism/image manipulation risks, funding agency policies, and mentor-mentee relationships in the context of AI.

You will record your presentation and upload materials to the Cadmium Education Harvester by October 25. Your panel discussion will be presented live. A text chat will also appear next to the presentation window during the live presentation.