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Scientific Symposium in Honor of Leslie G. Ungerleider: Neural Foundations of Vision and Cognition

Date and Time

September 19–20, 2022
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ET

Location

Lipsett Amphitheater (Building 10), NIH Campus Bethesda and Virtual

Overview

Leslie G. Ungerleider, Ph.D.

The National Institute of Mental Health's Intramural Research Program is conducting a scientific symposium in honor of Leslie G. Ungerleider, Ph.D.  This symposium will celebrate Dr. Ungerleider’s sizeable contributions to neuroscience by featuring talks that will highlight her immense scientific impact as well as her outstanding mentoring of hundreds of accomplished scientists. This event will gather Dr. Ungerleider’s colleagues, collaborators, friends, and mentees from around the world to celebrate her contributions to neuroscience over the past 50 years.

About Dr. Leslie G. Ungerleider

Dr. Ungerleider was a pioneering neuroscientist whose work spanning five decades, ranged from single cell recordings and anatomical tracings in monkeys to PET and fMRI studies in humans, from sensory processing in V1 to attentional modulation in prefrontal and parietal cortex, and from low-level visual perceptual learning to high-level social cognition.

Sponsored by

The Division of Intramural Research Programs

Registration

This event is free but you must register to attend .