Last week, more than 600 of the world's leading brain scientists, neuroscientists, and other brain researchers crafted and signed an open letter to the European Commission asking for changes in their funding agenda for the Human Brain Project, the European version of our own "Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies" project funded by the Obama administration. They pledge not to apply for or accept funding if the changes are not made (see the open letter below).
In the New York Times, neuroscientist Gary Marcus offered his comments on, and support for, this effort to change the research model away from a computational paradigm centered on creating a computer simulation of the human brain.
Among the 600+ signees are Chris Frith (UCL, London) and Giacomo Rizzolatti (Università di Parma, Italy).
The Trouble With Brain Science
By GARY MARCUS
JULY 11, 2014Credit Tim Lahan
ARE WE EVER going to figure out how the brain works?
After decades of research, diseases like schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s still resist treatment. Despite countless investigations into serotonin and other neurotransmitters, there is still no method to cure clinical depression. And for all the excitement about brain-imaging techniques, the limitations of fMRI studies are, as evidenced by popular books like “Brainwashed” and “Neuromania,” by now well known. In spite of the many remarkable advances in neuroscience, you might get the sinking feeling that we are not always going about brain science in the best possible way.
This feeling was given prominent public expression on Monday, when hundreds of neuroscientists from all over the world issued an indignant open letter to the European Commission, which is funding the Human Brain Project, an approximately $1.6 billion effort that aims to build a complete computer simulation of the human brain. The letter charges that the project is “overly narrow” in approach and not “well conceived.” While no neuroscientist doubts that a faithful-to-life brain simulation would ultimately be tremendously useful, some have called the project “radically premature.” The controversy serves as a reminder that we scientists are not only far from a comprehensive explanation of how the brain works; we’re also not even in agreement about the best way to study it, or what questions we should be asking.
The European Commission, like the Obama administration, which is promoting a large-scale research enterprise called the Brain Initiative, is investing heavily in neuroscience, and rightly so. (A set of new tools such as optogenetics, which allows neuroscientists to control the activity of individual neurons, gives considerable reason for optimism.) But neither project has grappled sufficiently with a critical question that is too often ignored in the field: What would a good theory of the brain actually look like?
Different kinds of sciences call for different kinds of theories. Physicists, for example, are searching for a “grand unified theory” that integrates gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces into a neat package of equations. Whether or not they will get there, they have made considerable progress, in part because they know what they are looking for.
Biologists — neuroscientists included — can’t hope for that kind of theory. Biology isn’t elegant the way physics appears to be. The living world is bursting with variety and unpredictable complexity, because biology is the product of historical accidents, with species solving problems based on happenstance that leads them down one evolutionary road rather than another. No overarching theory of neuroscience could predict, for example, that the cerebellum (which is involved in timing and motor control) would have vastly more neurons than the prefrontal cortex (the part of the brain most associated with our advanced intelligence).
But biological complexity is only part of the challenge in figuring out what kind of theory of the brain we’re seeking. What we are really looking for is a bridge, some way of connecting two separate scientific languages — those of neuroscience and psychology.
Such bridges don’t come easily or often, maybe once in a generation, but when they do arrive, they can change everything. An example is the discovery of DNA, which allowed us to understand how genetic information could be represented and replicated in a physical structure. In one stroke, this bridge transformed biology from a mystery — in which the physical basis of life was almost entirely unknown — into a tractable if challenging set of problems, such as sequencing genes, working out the proteins that they encode and discerning the circumstances that govern their distribution in the body.
Neuroscience awaits a similar breakthrough. We know that there must be some lawful relation between assemblies of neurons and the elements of thought, but we are currently at a loss to describe those laws. We don’t know, for example, whether our memories for individual words inhere in individual neurons or in sets of neurons, or in what way sets of neurons might underwrite our memories for words, if in fact they do.
The problem with both of the big brain projects is that too few of the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent are devoted to spanning this conceptual chasm. Both projects are making important contributions: the European effort is helping build infrastructure for data integration; the American project is emphasizing the development of state-of-the-art tools for collecting new kinds of data. But as anyone in a field richer in data than theory (like weather forecasting) can tell you, amassing data is only a start.
The success of both the Human Brain Project and the Brain Initiative will ultimately rest not just on the data to be collected but also on what can be done with those data once they are collected. On that, too little has been said.
~ Gary Marcus, a professor of psychology at New York University, is an editor of the forthcoming book “The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World’s Leading Neuroscientists.”
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Here is the open letter to the EU concerning the Human Brain Project:
Open message to the European Commissionconcerning the Human Brain Project
July 7, 2014
We the undersigned members of the European neuroscience community are writing to express our concern with the course of the Human Brain Project (HBP). The HBP, and its cousin the U.S. BRAIN Initiative, have the noble goal of making major advances in our understanding of both normal and pathological brain function. Given the potentially enormous benefits to society that would be gained from achieving this goal, it deserves a significant collective investment of our societies’ resources.
However, the HBP has been controversial and divisive within the European neuroscience community from the beginning. Many laboratories refused to join the project when it was first submitted because of its focus on an overly narrow approach, leading to a significant risk that it would fail to meet its goals. Further attrition of members during the ramp-up phase added to this narrowing.
In June, a Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) for the second round of funding for the HBP was submitted. This, unfortunately, reflected an even further narrowing of goals and funding allocation, including the removal of an entire neuroscience subproject and the consequent deletion of 18 additional laboratories, as well as further withdrawals and the resignation of one member of the internal scientific advisory board.
A formal review of the HBP is now scheduled to evaluate the success of the project’s ramp-up phase and the plan for the next phase. At stake is funding on the order of 50M€ per year European Commission for the “core project” and 50M€ in “partnering projects” provided largely by the European member states’ funding bodies.
In this context, we wish to express the view that the HBP is not on course and that the European Commission must take a very careful look at both the science and the management of the HBP before it is renewed. We strongly question whether the goals and implementation of the HBP are adequate to form the nucleus of the collaborative effort in Europe that will further our understanding of the brain.
It is stated that the review must address the excellence, impact as well as the quality and efficiency of implementation. We believe that a review will show that there are substantial failures to meet these criteria, especially concerning the quality of the governance demonstrated and the lack of flexibility and openness of the consortium.
In order to carry out the upcoming review in the most transparent and accountable manner possible, we hold that it should meet the following criteria:In the case that the review is not able to secure these objectives, we call for the European Commission and Member States to reallocate the funding currently allocated to the HBP core and partnering projects to broad neuroscience-directed funding to meet the original goals of the HBP—understanding brain function and its effect on society. We strongly support the mechanism of individual investigator-driven grants as a means to provide a much needed investment in European neuroscience research. The European Research Council would provide a well-proven mechanism for allocating such funds.
- The panel should be composed of highly regarded members of the scientific community whose views reflect the diversity of approaches within neuroscience.
- The review process should be transparent: review panel members identities should be disclosed and the goals, procedures and output of the review process should be public.
- The panel should be independent: the members of the panel should not be involved in the development of, advocacy for, or governance of the HBP; they should provide a signed disclosure of any significant funding or scientific relationships to the HBP.
- The EC must by regulation evaluate if the HBP is meeting the core criteria of the FET Flagship Project, including scientific excellence, impact and quality of implementation. We call attention to concerns raised by the sparse community support and systematic loss of HBP partners that appear highly relevant to the FET criteria of:
- Extent to which the consortium enables fostering complementarities, exploiting synergies, and enhancing the overall outcome of regional, national, European and international research programmes.
- Quality of the proposed governance and management structure.
- Openness and flexibility of the consortium.
- Based on this review, the panel should make binding recommendations concerning the continuation of the HBP as a whole as well as continuation of individual subprojects, including the allocation of resources across subprojects and the possible creation of new subprojects.
- The panel should be tasked and empowered to create a transparent process for the formulation of the calls for partnering projects and the review of applications for those calls, such that these reflect community input, are coordinated with the core but are independent of the core administration.
- One or more members of the panel should continue to serve as the core of an external steering committee for the period of the funding under review. These continuing members would need to be fully independent of the project (i.e. receiving no funding).
In the event that the European Commission is unable to adopt these recommendations, we, the undersigned, pledge not to apply for HBP partnering projects and will urge our colleagues to join us in this commitment.
- Moshe Abeles. Bar-Ilan University. Israel.
- Ad Aertsen. University of Freiburg. Germany.
- Silvia Arber. FMI. Switzerland.
- Philippe Ascher. University of Paris. France.
- Francesco Battaglia. Radboud Universiteit. Netherlands.
- Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva. Switzerland.
- Heinz Beck. University of Bonn. Germany.
- James Bednar. University of Edinburgh. UK.
- Tim Behrens. Oxford University. UK.
- Suliann Ben Hamed. ISC Lyon. France.
- Benedikt Berninger. University Medical Center Mainz. Germany.
- Hugues Berry. INRIA. France.
- Matthias Bethge. University of Tuebingen. Germany.
- Timothy Bliss. MRC. UK.
- Vincent Bonin. NERF. Belgium.
- Jan Born. University of Tübingen. Germany.
- Axel Borst. MPI. Germany.
- Gerard Borst. Erasmus MC Rotterdam. Netherlands.
- Michael Brecht. BCCN.Germany.
- Nils Brose. MPI. Germany.
- Jo Bury. VIB. Belgium.
- Matteo Carandini. UCL. UK.
- Alan Carleton. University of Geneva. Switzerland.
- Pico Caroni. FMI. Switzerland.
- Frederic Chavane. CNRS Marseille. France.
- Leonardo Chelazzi. University of Verona. Italy.
- Eugenia Chiappe. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Albert Compte. IDIBAPS Barcelona. Spain.
- Rui Costa. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Peter Dayan. University College of London. UK.
- Alexandre Dayer. University of Geneva. Switzerland.
- Gonzalo de Polavieja. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Chris de Zeeuw. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. Netherlands.
- Sophie Deneve. ENS. France.
- Winfried Denk. MPIMR Heidelberg. Germany.
- Mathew Diamond. SISSA. Italy.
- David DiGregorio. Institut Pasteur. France.
- Ray Dolan. UCL. UK.
- Rodney Douglas. ETH. Switzerland.
- Andreas Draguhn. University of Heidelberg. Germany.
- Jean Rene Duhamel. ISC Lyon. France
- Thomas Euler. University of Tubingen. Germany.
- Karl Farrow. NERF. Belgium.
- Julia Fischer. Leibniz Institut fur Primatentforschung. Germany.
- Jozsef Fiser. CEU. Hungary.
- Tamar Flash. Weizmann Institute. Israel.
- Eckhard Friauf. University of Kaiserslautern. Germany.
- Rainer Friedrich. FMI. Switzerland.
- Pascal Fries. ESI and MPI. Germany.
- Chris Frith. UCL. London.
- Vittorio Gallese. University of Parma. Italy.
- Theo Geisel. MPI. Germany.
- Martin Giese. University of Tübingen. Germany.
- David Golomb, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
- Lyle Graham. CNRS, U Paris Descartes. France.
- Boris Gutkin. ENS. France.
- Helmut Haas. University of Dusseldorf. Germany.
- Sebastian Haesler. NERF. Belgium.
- Richard Hahnloser. ETH. Switzerland.
- David Hansel. University of Paris. France.
- Riitta Hari. Aalto University. Finland.
- Ken Harris. UCL. UK.
- Michael Hausser. UCL. UK.
- Fritjof Helmchen. University of Zurich. Switzerland.
- Moritz Helmstaedter. MPI. Germany.
- Matthias Hennig. University of Edinburgh. UK.
- Sonja Hofer. University of Basel. Switzerland.
- Klaus-Peter Hoffmann. Ruhr University Bochum. Germany.
- Daniel Huber. University of Geneva. Switzerland.
- Denis Jabaudon. University of Geneva. Switzerland.
- Reinhard Jahn. MPIMR. Germany.
- Peter Janssen. KU Leuven. Belgium.
- Sebastian Jessberger. University of Zurich. Switzerland.
- Adam Kampff. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Jason Kerr. Caesar. Germany.
- Jozsef Kiss. University of Geneva. Switzerland.
- Fabian Kloosterman. NERF. Belgium.
- Etienne Koechlin. ENS. France.
- Arvind Kumar. University of Freiburg. Germany.
- Peter Latham. UCL. UK.
- Gilles Laurent. MPI Frankfurt. Germany.
- Mate Lengyel. Cambridge University. UK.
- Juan Lerma Gomez. Instituto de Neurociencias Alicante. Spain.
- Susana Lima. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Nikos Logothetis. MPI Tübingen. Germany.
- Matthieu Louis. CRG. Spain.
- Heiko Luhmann. University Medical Center Mainz. Germany.
- Giuseppe Luppino. University of Parma. Italy.
- Andreas Luthi. FMI. Switzerland.
- Christian Machens. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Zachary Mainen. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Rafael Malach. Weizmann Institute. Israel.
- Miguel Maravall. Instituto de Neurociencias Alicante. Spain.
- Troy Margrie. NIMR. UK.
- Kevan Martin. ETH. Switzerland.
- Guillaume Masson. CNRS Marseille. France.
- Gero Miesenboeck. Oxford. UK.
- Marta Moita. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Edvard Moser. Kavli Institute. Norway.
- May-Britt Moser. Kavli Institute. Norway.
- Tom Mrsic-Flogel. University of Basel. Switzerland.
- Andreas Neef. MPIMR. Germany.
- Israel Nelken. Hebrew University. Israel.
- Stephan Neuhauss. University of Zurich. Switzerland.
- Andreas Nieder. University of Tübingen. Germany.
- Hendrikje Nienborg. University of Tübingen. Germany.
- Zoltan Nusser. Institute of Experimental Medicine. Hungary.
- Guy Orban. University of Parma. Italy.
- Christophe Pallier, CNRS-INSERM, Paris-Saclay, France
- Stefano Panzeri. Italian Institute of Technology. Italy.
- Rony Paz. Weizmann Institute. Israel.
- Barak Pearlmutter. NUI Maynooth. Ireland.
- Mathias Pessiglione. ICM. France.
- Chris Petkov. Newcastle University. UK.
- Leopoldo Petreanu. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Alexandre Pouget. University of Geneva. Switzerland.
- Martin Raff. UCL. UK.
- Alfonso Renart. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Giacomo Rizzolatti. Università di Parma. Italy.
- David Robbe. INMED. France.
- Botond Roska. FMI. Switzerland.
- Stefan Rotter. University of Freiburg. Germany.
- Nava Rubin. ICREA and DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Spain.
- Simon Rumpel. IMP. Austria.
- Matthew Rushworth. University of Oxford. UK.
- Stefan Schaal. MPI. Germany.
- Andreas Schaefer. NIMR UCL. UK
- Peter Scheiffele. University of Basel. Switzerland.
- Elad Schneidman. Weizmann Institute. Israel.
- Jan Schnupp. University of Oxford. UK.
- Bernhard Scholkopf. MPI Tübingen. Germany.
- Erin Schuman. MPI Frankfurt. Germany.
- Martin Schwab. University of Zurich. Switzerland.
- Cornelius Schwarz. University of Tuebingen. Germany.
- Sophie Schwartz. University of Geneva.Switzerland.
- Peggy Series. University of Edinburgh. UK.
- Noam Shemesh. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal.
- Oren Shriki. Ben Gurion University. Israel.
- Angus Silver. UCL. UK.
- Angela Sirigu. ISC Lyon. France.
- Haim Sompolinsky. Hebrew University. Israel.
- Walter Stuhmer. MPI. Germany.
- German Sumbre. ENS, France.
- Alexandre Thiele. Newcastle University. UK.
- Peter Thier. University of Tübingen. Germany.
- Simon Thorpe. CNRS Toulouse. France.
- Alessandro Treves. SISSA. Italy.
- Nachum Ulanovsky. Weizmann Institute. Israel.
- Wim Vanduffel. KU Leuven. Belgium.
- Rufin Vogels. KU Leuven. Belgium.
- Patrik Vuilleumier. University of Geneva. Switzerland.
- Felix Wichmann. University of Tuebingen. Germany.
- David Willshaw. University of Edinburgh.UK.
- Fred Wolf. MPI Göttingen. Germany.
- Daniel Wolpert. Cambridge University. UK.
- Emre Yaksi. NERF. Belgium.
The open letter was sent to the EC at 07/07/2014, 00:00. All signatures listed above were received prior to that time and so were included in the letter. The signatures below are listed by time of registration.
- Hugues Berry. INRIA. France
- Aldo Faisal. Imperial College London. United Kingdom
- Simon Schultz. Imperial College London. United Kingdom
- Sofie Valk. MPI. Germany
- Nick Franks. Imperial College. United Kingdom
- Alex Gomez-Marin. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. Portugal
- Michael Orger. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Jean-Marc Fritschy. University of Zurich. Switzerland
- Daniele Marinazzo. University of Gent. Belgium
- Cyrille Rossant. UCL. United Kingdom
- Jon Simons. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom
- Srdjan Ostojic. ENS Paris. France
- Wouter De Baene. Ghent University. Belgium
- Maria Luisa Vasconcelos. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Paul Chadderton. Imperial College London. United Kingdom
- Bernd Sutor. University of Munich. Germany
- Carlos Ribeiro. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Konrad Kording. Northwestern University. United States
- Jochen Staiger. University Medicine Goettinge. Germany
- Jan Zimmermann. Maastricht University. Netherlands
- Martina Wicklein. Imperial College London. United Kingdom
- John van Opstal. Radboud University Nijmegen. Netherlands
- Marc van Wanrooij. Radboud University Nijmegen. Netherlands
- Tomas Ros. University of Geneva. Switzerland
- Pierre-Alexandre Klein. Université catholique de Louvain. Belgium
- Stefano Ferraina. Sapienza University . Italy
- Robert Dickinson. Imperial College London. United Kingdom
- Davide Zoccolan. SISSA. Italy
- Georg Keller. Friedrich Miescher Institute. Switzerland
- David Poeppel. Max-Planck-Institute, NYU. Germany
- Claudio Luzzatti. Università di Milano-Bicocca. Italy
- Natalie Sebanz. Central European University. Hungary
- Federica Bianca Rosselli. SISSA. Italy
- George Dimitriadis. Radboud University. Netherlands
- Guenther Knoblich. Central European University. Hungary
- Douglas Steele. University of Dundee. United Kingdom
- Giorgio Gilestro. Imperial College London. United Kingdom
- Sina Tafazoli. SISSA. Italy
- Mark Humphries. University of Manchester. United Kingdom
- Rainer Engelken. MPI DS. Germany
- Roger Carpenter. University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. United Kingdom
- Ahmed El Hady. Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Germany
- Richard van Wezel. Radboud University Nijmegen. Netherlands
- Stefan Treue. German Primate Center. Germany
- Ivan Raikov. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Japan
- Carl van Vreeswijk. CNRS. France
- Dirk Kamin. MPI. Germany
- Job van den Hurk. KU Leuven. Belgium
- Christian Schnell. Cardiff University. United Kingdom
- Yves Trotter. CNRS. France
- Arnaud Delorme. CNRS. France
- Megan Carey. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Joseph Paton. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. Portugal
- Benoît Girard. CNRS & UPMC. France
- Egemen Konu. University of Nottingham. United Kingdom
- Ronald Garduno. University of New Mexico. United States
- Detlev Schild. Univ Göttingen. Germany
- Henry Kennedy. INSERM. France
- Umberto Castiello. University of Padova. Italy
- Miguel Coelho. Movimento ao Serviço da Vida. Portugal
- Raul Gainetdinov. Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Italy
- Gagan Sidhu. N/A. Canada
- Loren Looger. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus. United States
- Marco Guenza. Università degli Studi di Torino. Italy
- Hilary King. Retired ENAIP. United Kingdom
- Thomas Kreuz. CNR. Italy
- David Attwell. UCL. United Kingdom
- Anna Kuppuswamy. UCL. United Kingdom
- Chiara Begliomini. Dept. General Psychology, University of Padova. Italy
- Vahid Esmaeili. SISSA. Italy
- Alessandro Di Filippo. SISSA. Italy
- Charles Capaday. Paris V. France
- Laszlo Negyessy. Wigner RCP, Hungarian Academy of Sciences . Hungary
- Timothy O'Leary. Brandeis University. United States
- Sofia Soares. Champalimaud Centre for the Unkown. Portugal
- Ana Vasconcelos. HSM-CHLN. Portugal
- Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. MPI. Germany
- Irini Skaliora. Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. Greece
- Gil Costa. Champalimaud Foundation. Portugal
- Francois Genoud. University of Vienna. Austria
- Aman Saleem. UCL. United Kingdom
- Pascal Belin. Aix-Marseille University. France
- Sara A Solla. Northwestern University. United States
- Catherine Tallon-Baudry. Ecole Normale Supérieure. France
- Catarina Seabra. University of Porto. Portugal
- Jens Kremkow. State University of New York College of Optometry . United States
- Hans-Peter Frey. Columbia University. United States
- Michael Gutnick. The Hebrew University. Israel
- Andras Lakatos. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom
- Michael P. I. Becker. University of Muenster. Germany
- Ulrich Leischner. Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technologies. Germany
- Dante Chialvo. CONICET. Argentina
- Shervin Safavi. MPI Tübingen. Germany
- Catarina Carona. I3S. Portugal
- Bence Ölveczky. Harvard University. United States
- Andrew Straw. IMP. Austria
- Lyle Long. Penn State Univ.. United States
- Simion Pruna. Institute "Prof. N. Paulescu". Romania
- Tod Thiele. Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. Germany
- Tomas Hromadka. Slovak Academy of Sciences. Slovakia
- Stephen Eglen. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom
- Tansu Celikel. Radboud University Nijmegan. Netherlands
- Curtis Moshay. SynergyED™.org. United States
- Igor Kagan. German Primate Center. Germany
- Daniel Bendor. UCL. United Kingdom
- Richard Born. Harvard Medical School. United States
- Gasper Tkacik. IST Austria. Austria
- Maneesh Sahani. UCL. United Kingdom
- Vikram Chib. Johns Hopkins University. United States
- Rava Azeredo da Silveira. Ecole Normale Supérieure. France
- Hakwan Lau. UCLA. United States
- Taha Yasseri. University of Oxford. United Kingdom
- David Brito. University of Coimbra. Portugal
- Duda Kvitsiani. Cold Spring Harbor Labs. United States
- Zoltan Toroczkai. University of Notre Dame. United States
- Laurence Hunt. UCL. United Kingdom
- Emmanuel Procyk. CNRS. France
- John Huguenard. Stanford University. United States
- Stephen Coombes. University of Nottingham. United Kingdom
- Leon Lagnado. University of Sussex. United Kingdom
- Claudia Freire. Universidad A Coruna . Spain
- Duje Tadin. University of Rochester. United States
- Jean-Pierre Nadal. CNRS & EHESS. France
- Masahito Yamagata. Harvard University. United States
- Nathaniel Daw. New York University. United States
- Mir-Shahram Safari. Brain Science Institute, RIKEN. Japan
- Philippe Millet. University of Geneva. Switzerland
- Michael Bale. Instituto de Neurociencias Alicante UMH-CSIC. Spain
- Andreas Roepstorff. Aarhus University. Denmark
- André Mouraux. Université catholique de Louvain. Belgium
- Herc Neves. Uppsala University. Sweden
- ROBERTO COLOM. UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID. Spain
- Louis-Marie PLUMEL. Idiap Research Institute. Switzerland
- Walter Paulus. Herr. Germany
- Ryota Kanai. University of Sussex. United Kingdom
- Kanchana Pandian. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. India
- Hugo Cook. DePaul University. United States
- Boris Chagnaud. LMU Munich. Germany
- laurent cohen. ICM. France
- Roberto Livi. University of Florence. Italy
- Annycke xavier. in vivo brain. France
- Alessandro Villa. University of Lausanne. Switzerland
- Alessandro Torcini. Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Italy
- Leszek Kaczmarek . Nencki Institute. Poland
- Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Spain
- yehezkel ben-ari. iNSERM. France
- Oliver Schlüter. European Neuroscience Institute. Germany
- Oscar Marin. King's College London. United Kingdom
- Bert Kappen. Radboud University. Netherlands
- Robert Hickman. Institute of Molecular Biology. Austria
- Mark Hübener. MPI. Germany
- Marcus Kaiser. Newcastle University. United Kingdom
- Giovanni Galizia. Universität Konstanz. Germany
- Antony Morland. University of York. United Kingdom
- Flor Kusnir. University of Glasgow. United Kingdom
- Fabian Sinz. University Tuebingen. Germany
- Tim Gollisch. University Medical Center Göttingen. Germany
- Dori Derdikman. Technion. Israel
- Alexander Attinger. FMI. Switzerland
- Alex Wade. University of York. United Kingdom
- Rosalina Fonseca. Gulbenkian Institute of Science. Portugal
- Wim Melis. University of Greenwich. United Kingdom
- Thomas Wiecki. Brown University. Germany
- Brent Doiron. University of Pittsburgh. United States
- Bernd Porr. University of Glasgow. United Kingdom
- Dave Langers. University of Nottingham. United Kingdom
- Marco Manca. SCImPULSE Foundation. Switzerland
- Rob Campbell. University of Basel. Switzerland
- vincent torre. SISSA. Italy
- Stijn Michielse. Maastricht University. Netherlands
- maysam oladazimi. center of integrative neuroscience . Germany
- Daniele Zullino. University Geneva. Switzerland
- Joost Dessing. Queen's University Belfast. United Kingdom
- Izumi Fukunaga. NIMR. United Kingdom
- Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Germany
- Boris B. Quednow. University of Zurich. Switzerland
- Peter Smittenaar. UCL. United Kingdom
- Robert van Beers. VU University Amsterdam. Netherlands
- Ho Ko. University College London, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong
- Miloud Hadj Achour. IUSTI. France
- Molly Crockett. University of Oxford. United Kingdom
- Evelyne Sernagor. Newcastle university. United Kingdom
- Bertram Gerber. Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology. Germany
- Claire Wyart. Inserm/ICM. France
- Alia Benali. University of Tuebingen. Germany.. Germany
- Jaime de la Rocha. IDIBAPS. Spain
- Stephen Brickley. Imperial College London. United Kingdom
- Eva BONDA. NeuroAIsthesis. France
- Marc Toussaint. University of Stuttgart. Germany
- Emilio Palomares. ICIQ. Spain
- Yael Niv. Princeton university. United States
- David Brown. UCL. United Kingdom
- Maria-Magdolna Ercsey-Ravasz. Babes-Bolyai University. Romania
- Diogo Trigo. King's College London. United Kingdom
- Dennis Goldschmidt. ETH/University of Zurich. Switzerland
- Alexander Ecker. University of Tübingen. Germany
- Rosario Sanchez Pernaute. Inbiomed Foundation. Spain
- Kenneth Knoblauch. Inserm U846, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute. France
- Michael Nitsche. University Medical Center, Goettingen. Germany
- Christian Plewnia. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen. Germany
- Garikoitz Azkona. University of Barcelona. Spain
- Maria-Rosario Luquin. University of Navarra . Spain
- David Omer. MPI. Germany
- Simon Baumann. Newcastle University. United Kingdom
- Hugo van den Berg. Warwick University. United Kingdom
- Matt Smear. University of Oregon. United States
- Benoit Scherrer. Harvard Medical School. United States
- Lionel Naccache. ICM. France
- Claudia Feierstein. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. Portugal
- Raiko Stephan. FMI. Switzerland
- Caitlin Johnston. Arizona State University. United States
- William Harris. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom
- Torsten Fregin. AWI. Germany
- Matthias Kaschube. FIAS. Germany
- Peter beim Graben. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Germany
- Wolfger von der Behrens. University and ETH Zurich. Switzerland
- Marco Pelizzone. University of Geneva. Switzerland
- Peter Roberts. University of Bristol. United Kingdom
- Nouchine Hadjikhani. Harvard University. United States
- Marco Lanzilotto. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Italy
- Regina Dahlhaus. FAU. Germany
- Leon Fonville. King's College London. United Kingdom
- Bernard Scott. Center for Sociocybernetics Research,Bonn. United Kingdom
- Michele Guerra. University of Parma. Italy
- Peter Bremen. Radboud University. Netherlands
- Petko Kiriazov. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Bulgaria
- Serafim Rodrigues. Plymouth University. United Kingdom
- Menno Witter. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Norway
- Nicolas canil. maison de Lauberiviere. Canada
- Carsten Mehring. University of Freiburg. Germany
- Stefan Kiebel. TU Dresden. Germany
- John Wood. UCL. United Kingdom
- Cyril Monier. CNRS. France
- Marc Spehr. RWTH Aachen University. Germany
- Timothy Verstynen. Carnegie Mellon University. United States
- Frank Kirchhoff. University of Saarland. Germany
- Georg Nagel. Univ. Wuerzburg. Germany
- Alessandra Lintas. University of Lausanne. Switzerland
- Gaia Novarino. IST Austria. Austria
- Dongsung Huh. Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL. United Kingdom
- Emmanuel Klinger. MPI. Germany
- Peter Kirsch. University of Heidelberg. Germany
- Jan Benda. University Tuebingen. Germany
- Klaas Enno Stephan. University of Zurich & ETH Zurich. Switzerland
- Luis Miguel Martinez. Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante. Spain
- Manuel Berning. MPI. Germany
- teresa gimenez barbat. tercera cultura. Spain
- Daniela Martínez de la Mora. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Spain
- Judit Makara. IEM. Hungary
- Ludovic Righetti. MPI. Germany
- Vishal Kapoor. MPI Tübingen. Germany.. Germany
- Shawn Mikula. MPI. Germany
- naomi middelmann. private citizen. Switzerland
- Ines de Vega. Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. Germany
- Maria José Rodrigo. University of La laguna. Spain
- Julian Anslinger. Freelancer. Austria
- Patrick Becker. Humboldt-University, Berlin. Germany
- Steven Rose. Open University. United Kingdom
- Manuel de Vega. University of La Laguna. Spain
- Boris Kotchoubey. University of Tübingen. Germany
- Manuela Piazza. Inserm. France
- Ahmed Hisham Gardoh. Radboud university Nijmegen. Netherlands
- Romain Franconville. Janelia Farm Research Campus (HHMI). United States
- Jonny Kohl. Harvard University. United States
- Javier Diaz-Nido. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Spain
- Robert Hindges. Kings College London. United Kingdom
- Urs Köster. UC Berkeley. United States
- Antonio Rangel. Caltech. United States
- Heliodoro Ruiperez. Retired. Spain
- José M. Delgado-García. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Spain
- Helga Müller. Stadtschulrat für Wien. Austria
- Wolfram Schultz. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom
- Robert Bauer. Translational Neurosurgery. Germany
- Friedrich Johenning. Charité University Medicine Berlin. Germany
- Manuel Pastor. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Spain
- Christine Tardif. Max-Planck-Institute for Human Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Germany
- Albert Costa. ICREA- Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Spain
- Núria Sebastián Gallés. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Spain
- Jonas Obleser. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Germany
- Philipp Kanske. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Germany
- Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz. INSERM. France
- Olivier Coulon. CNRS. France
- Ernst Fehr. University of Zurich. Switzerland
- Christopher Steele. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Germany
- Dierk Reiff. University Freiburg. Germany
- Hilke Plassmann. ENS / INSEAD. France
- Anton Sirota. Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München. Germany
- Alon Korngreen. Bar-Ilan University. Israel
- Izhar Bar-Gad. Bar-Ilan University. Israel
- dieter swandulla. university of bonn. Germany
- Ramon Carbo-Dorca. University of Girona. Spain
- Agnès Gruart. Pablo de Olavide University. Spain
- Antoni Valero-Cabré. CNRS UMR 7225 - ICM. France
- Aishwarya Nair. University of Osnabruck. Germany
- Lars Nyberg. Umeå University. Sweden
- Tobias Rose. Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology. Germany
- Tor Syvertsen. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Norway
- Enrique Sánchez González. Ciber-Seguridad GITS Informática - España. Spain
- Joachim Funke. Departm. of Psychology, Heidelberg University. Germany
- Jonathan Bradley. INSERM. France
- Ricardo Cruz. swissvirtual. Switzerland
- Salvatore Fara. Bernstein Center Freiburg. Germany
- thierry Pozzo. INSERM. France
- Carlos Moreno García. Farmacia de Jauja. Spain
- Ursula Pia Jauch. University of Zurich. Switzerland
- Veronica Egger. Regensburg University. Germany
- Björn Friedrich. Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology. Germany
- Sarah Jessen. MPI CBS. Germany
- Michael Hörner. European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen. Germany
- Laurent Lescaudron . Universty of Nantes. France
- Giacomo Indiveri. University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. Switzerland
- Mario Gomes-Pereira. INSERM. France
- Tonia Rihs. University of Geneva. Switzerland
- Bruno Sevennec. CNRS. France
- Julien Lefèvre. Aix-Marseille Université. France
- Matthew Nelson. INSERM. France
- Eberhard von Goldammer. FH Dortmund. Germany
- Constanze Lenschow. Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience. Germany
- Jyi Han Seng. UCSI University. Malaysia
- Roger Traub. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. United States
- Marc Fisher. Tulane University. United States
- Fabio Meneghini. SISSA. Italy
- Dilek DEMIR. TU Wien . Austria
- Jacob Duijnhouwer. Radboud University Nijmegen. United States
- Pavel Itskov. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Jacques Bourg. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Carolina Doran. Champalimaud Foundation & University of Bristol. Portugal
- Rosa Cossart. INSERM. France
- Maria Vicente. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Houman Safaai. Italian Institute of Technology. Italy
- Kobi Rosenblum. University of Haifa. Israel
- andrea burgalossi. University of Tübingen. Germany
- Francisco Romero. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. Spain
- Roberto Medina. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. Portugal
- michel dulcire. CIRAD. France
- Uwe Straehle. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . Germany
- Ignacio Ozcariz. Recol. Spain
- Vasco Galhardo. Fac Medicina - Universidade do Porto. Portugal
- Charles Gray. Montana State University. United States
- Tiago Monteiro. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. Portugal
- Jozsef Somogyi. retired. Hungary
- Heinrich Betz. Max-Planck Institute. Germany
- Jean-Pierre Mothet. CNRS. France
- Sara Matias. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Andrew Latto. Latto. United States
- Christian H. Uhlig. Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg. Germany
- Sebastian Schwaab. FH Köln. Germany
- Stephan Bohlhalter. University of Bern. Switzerland
- Orly Reiner. Weizmann Institute of Science. Israel
- Julien Colomb. Hu berlin. Germany
- Manuel Riquelme. UTHSCSA. United States
- Steffen Kandler. NERF. Belgium
- Nader Nikbakht. SISSA. Italy
- Stacy Dalton. JHU. United States
- Gabriel McKinsey. University of California San Francisco. United States
- José Ribas Fernandes. University of Victoria. Canada
- Stephen Jackson. Univerity of Nottinghm. United Kingdom
- Bjoern Andres. MPI Informatics. Germany
- Matthias Munk. MPI. Germany
- Vinzenz Schönfelder. SISSA | Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati. Italy
- Clara Ferreira. Oxford University. United Kingdom
- Detlef Wegener. University of Bremen. Germany
- Yves Moreau. University of Leuven. Belgium
- Patrick Barland. Academia.edu. Spain
- Miriam Klein-Flügge. UCL. United Kingdom
- Zoltan Nadasdy. Eotvos Lorand University, NeuroTexas Institute, University of Texas. Hungary
- Peter Bossaerts. University of Melbourne. Australia
- Eduardo Dias-Ferreira. The Rockefeller University. United States
- Linas Vilciauskas. New York University. United States
- Merlin Lange. RIKEN. Japan
- Gabriel Griesser. CIFOM-ET. Switzerland
- Raphael Massarelli. University of Lyon. France
- Wolfram Kawohl. University of Zurich. Switzerland
- Arthur Leblois. CNRS. France
- Béchir Jarraya. NeuroSpin. France
- Günter Windau. Radboud University. Netherlands
- Patrick Ruther. University of Freiburg. Germany
- Carlos Gómez-Ariza. Universidad de Jaen. Spain
- Paul Dean. Univeristy of Sheffield. United Kingdom
- Boris Velichkovsky. Technical University Dresden, TUD. Germany
- Rodrigo Abreu. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal. Portugal
- Brigitte Chamak. U. Paris Descartes. France
- Eric Everschor. Psychotherapeutische Praxis. Germany
- Magor Lorincz. University of Szeged. Hungary
- Bassam Atallah. Fundacao Champalimaud. Portugal
- Steffen Scholpp. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Germany
- Bahadir Kasap. Radboud University Nijmegen. Netherlands
- Floris de Lange. Radboud University Nijmegen. Netherlands
- Peter Redgrave. University of Sheffield. United Kingdom
- Luis Carretie. Laboratorio de Neurociencia cognitiva y afectiva, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Spain
- Hans Scherberger. University of Göttingen. Germany
- Stephan van Gils. University of Twwente. Netherlands
- Simone Lackner. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. Portugal
- Tony Prescott. University of Sheffield. United Kingdom
- Herbert Jaeger. Jacobs University Bremen. Germany
- Luuk van de Rijt. Radboudumc, biophysics. Netherlands
- Erwan Bezard. Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases. France
- Yael Amitai. Ben-Gurion University. Israel
- Wim Crusio. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. France
- Xurxo Mariño. University of A Coruña. Spain
- Ilan Lampl. Weizmann Institut. Israel
- Jean Petitot. CAMS-EHESS. France
- Krishna Kishore. University of Michigan. United States
- Martial Van der Linden. University of Geneva. Switzerland
- Vincent Croset. University of Oxford. United Kingdom
- Andrew Matus. FMI. Switzerland
- Benedetto De Martino. Cambridge University . United Kingdom
- Ana Amaral. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Inna Slutsky. Tel Aviv University. Israel
- Madalena Fonseca. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- John Anderson. University of Toronto. Canada
- Yuri Alexandrov. Institute of psychology RAS. Russia
- Lukasz Kaczmarek. Adam Mickiewicz University. Poland
- Marco Schieppati. University of Pavia. Italy
- Mike Hemberger. Max Planck Insitute for Brain Research. Germany
- Stéphane Viollet. CNRS - Aix Marseile University. France
- Franck RUFFIER. CNRS, Aix-Marseille University. France
- Michel Imbert. Ecole normale supérieure. France
- Jonathan Roiser. UCL. United Kingdom
- David Higgins. Ecole Normale Superieure. France
- Antonio Javier Pons Rivero. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Spain
- Ronald Welz. WDS Technologies SA. Switzerland
- Pietro Vertechi. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. Portugal
- Emma Cahill. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom
- Tatiana Chernigovskaya. St. Petersburg State University. Russia
- Elena Amenedo. University of Santiago de Compostela. Spain
- David Holcman. Ecole Normale Superieure. France
- Quentin Huys. University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. Switzerland
- ronald oosting. utrecht university. Netherlands
- Gabriel Madirolas. Instituto Cajal, CSIC. Spain
- Dani Martí. ENS, INSERM. France
- Wim Fias. Ghent University. Belgium
- Joana Nogueira. Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown . Portugal
- Valentin Wyart. Inserm / Ecole Normale Superieure. France
- Michael Suchocki. individual. Canada
- Mathieu Desroches. Inria. France
- Etienne Herzog. CNRS. France
- Hedi Young. Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal
- Nachiket Kashikar. University of Sussex. United Kingdom
- Gordon Pipa. University Osnabrück. Germany
- Kae Nakamura. Kansai Medical University. Japan
- Javier Cudeiro. University of A Coruña. Spain
- Paula Maria Fuertes. Psychology. Spain
- Fabio Simoes de Souza. Institute of Molecular Medicine. Portugal
- Hazem Toutounji. Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück. Germany
- Kenneth Miller. Columbia University. United States
- Ben Seymour. University of Cambridge. United Kingdom
- Renee Bleau. University of Glasgow. United Kingdom
- Barry Dickson. HHMI. United States
- Wolfgang Robinig. University of Graz. Austria
- Foteini Vlachou. Instituto de História da Arte, Faculdade das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Portugal
- JP hugnot. inserm. France
- David Gall. Université Libre de Bruxelles. Belgium
- Herwig Baier. Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. Germany
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