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December 2012
UCSD's Center for Human Development (CHD) receives NICHD grant to create a new "Innovative Research Hub" More...
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Sept. 2012
TDLC's Paula Tallal named an Inventor of the Year by the New Jersey Hall of Fame!
Paula Tallal is being honored because of her "academic and clinical expertise in neuroscience research and the resulting FastForword series of products, which has benefited children across the globe." More...
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Feb. 2012
Dave Deriso awarded Marie Curie Fellows scholarship to study at Oxford University
Dave Deriso has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellows scholarship to study at Oxford University as one of 14 research fellows to be trained in a new European Network. The European Community Seventh Framework Initial Training Network "Adaptive Brain Computations" (ABC) is a multi-disciplinary research and training program which aims to integrate the study of learning and brain plasticity to promote wellbeing and advance healthcare interventions. More
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Feb. 2012
TDLC research is featured in U.S. News!
National Science Foundation has provided content for an article, located in the Science section of U.S. News, that highlights TDLC research: How the Brain Learns: Researchers study timing, sensory systems, how regions connect.
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Feb. 2012
TDLC investigators Paula Tallal and György Buzsaki are both named as members of New Jersey's 20 biggest brains, while TDLC's partner Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Newark (CMBN) is listed as one of Jersey's "brainiest places" according to Inside Jersey. The 20 named individuals have been chosen for their creativity, imagination, and achievement in making significant breakthroughs in their fields.
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October 2011
TDLC Receives Renewal from the National Science Foundation!
News Release:
 >UC San Diego's news release:
Learning Center at UC San Diego Wins $18-Million Renewal (Oct. 31, 2011)
>TDLC's news release:
Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Receives $18-Million Renewal
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October 2011
National Science Foundation EFRI Award: TDLC members Scott Makeig, Howard Poizner, and Terrence Sejnowski are collaborating with project leader Gert Cauwenberghs and colleague Kenneth Kreutz-Delgado on a project aimed at creating an innovative, non-invasive approach for rehabilitation of Parkinson's disease patients. The team, all from UC San Diego, recently received an NSF EFRI award for the project, which will use a combination of EEG sensor and force feedback motor control. For more information:
> About the NSF EFRI M3C program
> NSF news announcement
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May 2011
TDLC trainee Dr. Nicholas Butko has been awarded the Jean Fort Dissertation Prize. A Fall 2010 Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego, Dr. Butko's dissertation is entitled: Active Perception. More  |
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March 4, 2011
TDLC investigator Gyorgy Buzsaki Is Co-Winner of Major European “Brain Prize”
Buzsaki shares prize of one million Euros with two other neuroscientists from his native Hungary
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February 2011
TDLC investigator Isabel Gauthier is appointed Editor of The Journal of Experimental Psychology! An article about her appointment appears on the website of the American Psychological Association (Feb. 2011).
For more information:
> American Psychological Association article
> Editorial |
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February 8, 2011
Terrence Sejnowski elected to National Academy of Engineering!
Salk Institute professor and TDLC Co-Director Terry J. Sejnowski, Ph.D., has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Sejnowski is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, making him one of only ten living individuals to have been elected to all three branches of the National Academies.
UC San Diego's Division of Biological Sciences press release
Salk Institute press release |
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February 2011
2011 Trainee Awards
The TDLC training committee has recently awarded small grants to support trainee research and collaboration. Click here to see a list of awardees and funded projects. |
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November 2010
Larry Squire receives Doctor Honoris Causa - Basel University, Switzerland
September 2010
Daniel Leeds receives a Presidential Fellowship in the Life Sciences - RK Mellon Foundation
June 2010
Eva Dundas receives Presidential Fellowship in the Life Sciences - RK Mellon Foundation
June 2010
Kenneth Harris receivese the Wolfson Research Merit Award - Royal Society
May 2010
Daniel Leeds receives the IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training) Fellowship - NSF |
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April 27, 2010
Salk scientist and TDLC Co-Director Terrence Sejnowski was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
> UCSD Press Release
> Salk Institute Press Release
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2010
Howard Poizner and Team awarded $4.5M ONR MURI Grant
Howard Poizner (PI, UCSD), and co-PI's Gary Lunch (UC Irvine) and Terry Sejnowski (Salk and UCSD), together with team leaders Hal Pashler, Sergei Gepshtein, Deborah Harrington, Tom Liu, Eric Hlagren, and Ralph Greenspan were recently awarded a $4.5M ONR MURI grant, with a $3M option period, to study the brain bases of unsupervised learning and training. (October 1, 2009) |
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January 2010
2010 Trainee Awards
The TDLC training committee has recently awarded small grants to support trainee research and collaboration. Click here to see a list of awardees and funded projects.
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October 2009
TDLC Trainee Eva Pastalkova, Ph.D., Receives Prestigious Award |
 | TDLC Trainees Awarded $13,000 in Small Grants
| | TDLC Trainee wins Cognitive Science Society Grant
Mike Mack wins a $500 travel grant from the Cognitive Science Society to its next meeting in Amsterdam this July. He will present a paper entitled “Recognizing Scenes Containing Consistent or Inconsistent Objects.” Mike is a member of PEN in the Palmeri laboratory at Vanderbilt University. In addition to maintaining his productive program of research, Mike just ended his term as head of the TDLC Trainee Committee. Congratulations Mike. |  | 2009 Betsy Faught Award
Shelley Marquez, executive director of TDLC, the chief administrative officer at the Center for Research in Language, the Institute for Neural Computation and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Betsy Faught Award. | | TDLC Trainees Awarded $7000 in Small Grants
| | TDLC Supplement Awards
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| The Institute of Medicine announced today the election of a new member, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Ph.D., professor of biology and neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, whose work uses computational models to understand the principles that link brain to behavior. [ +] | 
| NSF recently awarded TDLC $12 Million over the next three years to build on the Center's past three years of research, outreach, and overall success! | 
| TDLC Graduate Students Receive Pat Burns Memorial Research Award
Jennifer Richler and Michael Mack recently won the Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award. This annual award recognizes outstanding achievement in research by a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Jenn and Mike are members of the Perceptual Expertise Network as part of the TDLC and work with Thomas Palmeri and Isabel Gauthier. Jenn and Mike were recognized not only for their individual achievements in research but also by their ability to work together as a collaborative team.
| | In response to a call for proposals announced in February, 2008, the TDLC training committee awarded $10,000 in small grants to support trainee research and collaboration. | 
| Isabel Gauthier honored by the National Academy of Sciences |  | TDLC Participants Receive Guggenheim, SMART Fellowships
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| Human Brain Mapping Award to Isabel Gauthier and Tom James
|  | Graduate Students Get Support for TDLC Motion Capture and Brain Dynamics Study |
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