Conference

NEUROCOGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY: AN ALTERNATIVE APPLIED TO FUNCTIONAL CONNECTOMICS


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Description:

Connectomics arises as a branch of neuroscience and is focused on describing the networks of synaptic connections that underlie the structural and functional organization of cognitive processes. The development of promising new brain imaging techniques such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), Diffusion Functional MRI (DfMRI), or High Angular Resolution Diffusion (HARDI), are contributing significantly to this purpose; opposing to the hyperspecialized modular paradigm, a series of evidences based on highly plastic interconnected networks or paths, which would be the product of the interaction between experience and the individual biological load.

Techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), Magnetoencephalography and Electroencephalography have been used to simultaneously identify high level cognitive processes such as memory, learning, language, perception or emotion among others, increasing both spatial and temporal resolution of such interconnections. At present, the great capacity of storage of information has allowed us to study carefully and in an interdisciplinary way such neural behaviors, extrapolating them in different applications. An example of this is the health area and more specifically in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and control of a wide variety of diseases, using augmentative and alternative communication technologies, robotics for rehabilitation, human-machine interfaces, social robots, intelligent tutors, such as nanotechnology applied to pharmacology and tissue engineering.


The gap between neuroscience and technology is becoming smaller, which is why in this conference the Prof. Dr Jhon F. Sarmiento will postulate a series of alternatives through which we will be able to characterize interdisciplinary the physiological behavior of certain biological processes of great biotechnological potential for the development of technologies capable of anticipating, simulating and predicting with high rates of intra and inter subject accuracy, high-level cognitive processes, making connectomics not only an anatomical-functional model, but also a continuous source for computational modeling of transferable cognitive processes to optimized devices Through biomedical engineering.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jhon Freddy Sarmiento Vela

    • Bachelor's Degree in Biology - National Pedagogical University of Colombia (2006)
    • Master's Degree in Information Technologies Applied to ITC Education on the line of research for Rehabilitation Robotics - National Pedagogical University of Colombia (2009)
    • Doctorate in Biotechnology, Area: Health - Federal University of Espírito Santo UFES. Vitória-ES / Brasil (2013)
    • He has completed his post-doctoral training in Computational Modeling of Biological Systems in the State University of Santa Cruz UESC-IIhéus-BA at the NBCGIB Laboratoy (Nucleus of Computational Biology and Biotechnology Information Management).
    • Main areas of action:
        • Biomedical Engineering
        • Robotics for Rehabilitation
        • Cognitive Science
        • Genetics and Molecular Biology

Place: Classroom G-108 Date: June 2nd Hour: 10:00 am

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