Open conference by Dr. Adolfo García in Balcarce
On October 4, 2017, at Teatro Municipal «Luis Conti», in the city of Balcarce, Dr. Adolfo García offered an open conference titled «Neuroscience and society: How we think and act in daily life». With an attendance of over 300 people, the event raised a substantial sets of donations which were given in their entirety to the Society for Childhood Protection. Before the conference, Dr. García was recognized as a Distinguished Citizen in the field of Science by the city hall.
First International Congress on Translation, Interpreting, and Cognition
On September 1-2, the city of Mendoza welcomed experts from the word over at the The First International Congress on Translation, Interpreting, and Cognition. Hosted by Aconcagua Univresity, the National University of Cuyo, and the LPEN-INCYT, the event brought together over 200 attendees, 40 presenters, and keynote speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Germany, and China.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Dr. Adolfo García stated that “We are very satisfied with the outcome. In addition to its immediate impact for the development of the field in the region, this activity represents the first installment of a series of international congresses to be held around the world every two years. The next one will take place in Germany in 2019. Also, the finest contributions to this congress will be published in a special issue that I will guest edit with Mónica Giozza in Perspectives (a Taylor & Francis journal), under the tile “’Cognitive Aspects of Translation and Interpreting across Disciplines’”.
The impact of our research on the international media
We are proud to inform that our recent paper in Nature Human Behavior (Outcome-oriented moral evaluation in terrorists) has had an outstanding impact across the globe (Altmetric > 390, in the top 5% of all Altmetric publications). Fifteen days after it was published, the paper ranked first in readings and reached high visibility in international media. The work was highlighted by Nature (Research highlights)) and Nature Asia. The journal Nature Human Behavior itself dedicated its editorial to it. Sara Reardon, editor of the journal Nature, will shortly publish an article in Nature News highlighting the implications of this work.
Also, the paper has been the focus on over 30 articles in leading newspapers and media around the world, including the following:
United Kingdom: BBC, The British Psychological Society, Daily Mail, International Times Business, Mind Hacks
USA: Popular Science, Seeker/Discovery Channel, Pacific Standard I, Pacific Standard II
Germany: Die Welt, Researchgate News
Russia: Gazeta
Denmark: Videnskab, Weekendavisen
Italy: L’indro, The Post Internazionale
Portugal: Publico
Slovakia: Dennikn
Belgium: New Europe
Spain: Agencia Iberoamericana para la Divulgación de la Ciencia y Tecnología, PaperBlog
Canadá: Radio-Canada
India: Zee News
Finally, at the regional level it was highlighted by Argentina media (La Nacion diario, La Nacion TV, Infobae, Perfil) Chile (La segunda) and Latin American (TNT24; Prensa Latina)
We congratulate all authors and institutions involved in this outstanding work!
Plenaria del Dr. Adolfo García en el ISFC 2017 (Wollongong, Australia)
Plenaria del Dr. Adolfo García en el ISFC 2017 (Wollongong, Australia)
El Dr. Adolfo García participó como plenarista en el 44° Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Sistémico-Funcional, realizado en la Universidad de Wollongong, Australia. Durante el evento, que congregó a más de 200 lingüistas de todo el mundo, también presentó su más reciente libro (An Introduction to Relational Network Theory).
BID Project: Behavioral Insight group for social protection and health policies: A lifespan approach
«Behavioral Perspectives Group for Social Protection and Health Policies: A Lifecycle Approach». The project developed over 3 years, three Regional Public Goods (BPR) that are critical for regional development in relevant health issues. The first priority (BPR 1) of the project will be the development of a pioneering regional institution dedicated to the application of knowledge of behavior to health. BPR 2 will consist of the design of an intervention program to measure and improve cognition and language in children in vulnerable conditions. Finally, BPR 3 will consist of the expansion of a multilevel platform for accurate diagnosis and research on dementia and pathological aging. These three BPRs will promote the scalable expansion of the project and the development of parallel initiatives to maximize their impact.
The INECO Foundation (Argentina) will be the executing agency of the Project. (Argentina: Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience, INCYT, Chile: Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism, Uruguay: CIBPsi, Universidad de la República , Uruguayan Center for Molecular Imaging-CUDIM). The project also had the participation of external groups (Colombia: Neuroscience Group, Universidad de Antioquia, Ecuador: Neuromedicenter, Peru: Peruvian Institute of Neurosciences).
Congratulations to all participating institutions for having trusted this initiative!
Conferencia internacional del Dr Agustin Ibanez en el Institute of Advanced Studies de la Università Di Bologna
El profesor Agustin Ibanez, experto en neurociencia e investigador del INCYT (INECO-Favaloro_CONICET), brindó el 11 de Julio la conferencia internacional (Institute lecture) denominada “The Neuroscience of Body, Emotion, and Social Context Interactions in Neuropsychiatry” organizada por el Institute of Advanced Studies de la Università Di Bologna. (Ver detalles de conferencia acá: https://goo.gl/Ekrsn9). La misma se realizó en el Palazzo Poggi del Alma Mater Studiorum, una de las salas académicas más antiguas de la universidad y del mundo.
Las conferencias del Institute of Advanced Studies son dadas por expertos internacionales de diferentes especialidades pero involucran una discusión interdisciplinaria y societal. La lectura, abordó los actuales desafíos interdisciplinarios entre las neurociencias y las ciencias sociales. Durante más de medio siglo, la ciencia cognitiva y la neurociencia han concebido a los seres humanos como entidades radicalmente desencarnadas guiadas por una racionalidad lógica y aisladas de la cultura. Sin embargo, estas disciplinas han proporcionado recientemente nuevas alternativas proponiendo que la acción, el cuerpo, la emoción y la interacción social son críticas para la compresión de los procesos mentales. El profesor Ibáñez presentó evidencia de su grupo de trabajo, mostrando como el uso de tareas ecológicas y situadas que abordan la acción corporal, las emociones y la cognición social en varios trastornos (demencia frontotemporal, enfermedad de Huntington y Parkinson, lesiones cerebrales, esquizofrenia, ADHD, y otros trastornos) implican avances no solo para la compresión de las bases cerebrales de dichas condiciones, sino para la compresión y discusión social de los bases cerebrales de los procesos mentales. La conferencia fue de carácter interdisciplinario, ofreciendo a becados (estudiantes de doctorado y postdoctorados de múltiples disciplinas), investigadores y profesores una discusión interdisciplinaria de los resultados obtenidos.
Ezequiel Mikulan (LPEN) wins CONICET-Italian Government grant for postdoc in Milan
We congratulate Ezequiel Mikulan of the LPEN for having obtained a CONICET-Italian Government scholarship for Argentine citizens, through which he will carry out a postdoctoral study to develop the project «Creation and applications of the Human Brain Functional Connectivity Atlas».
Ezequiel will work with Dr Marcello Massimini, one of Italy’s leading cognitive neuroscientists, who has published in high impact journals such as Nature or Science. He will carry out his research at the Università degli Studi di Milano.
Ezequiel will work on the development of a map of the cerebral connections coming from the combination of different neuroscientific methods, which still do not exist in the scientific literature or in translational applications. The development of this project would allow to make concrete applications much more efficient of computer brain interfaces, as well as interventions by cerebral stimulation.
Congratulations to Ezekiel and our group!
INCYT (INECO Foundation, Favaloro, CONICET) wins CONICET IDEA Project
The INCYT (INECO Foundation, Favaloro, CONICET) was awarded an IDEA project for 5 years (2018-2023), called «Translational memory study and social cognition in neurodegenerative diseases». The project includes 5,000,000 pesos for research, plus 4 scholarships (3 doctoral and 1 post doc) and two permanent positions of technical staff (one for animals and one for EEG)
Lectures by Dr. Adolfo Garcia in Chengdu, China
Dr. Adolfo García gave two lectures in the framework of his visit to the University of Engineering, Science and Technology of Chengdu, China. In them, it disseminated the latest advances of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neurosciences (of the INCYT) on the cerebral base of the language.