[visionlist] VSS 2025 | Announcing Anne Churchland as the VSS 2025 Keynote Speaker

Fri Jan 10 09:27:55 -05 2025

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Announcing Anne Churchland as the 

VSS 2025 Keynote Speaker

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VSS is pleased to welcome Anne Churchland as the VSS 2025 Keynote Speaker.

Anne Churchland is a professor of neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her B.A. in mathematics and psychology from Wellesley College. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco (2003), working with Steve Lisberger on Representations of Eye and Image Velocity in Extrastriate Cortex. She transitioned to postdoctoral training at the University of Washington (2004 – 2010) working with Mike Shadlen on perceptual decisions in the Lateral Intraparietal area. She was a principal investigator in neuroscience at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 2010 until she joined the UCLA faculty in May 2020.

The Churchland laboratory investigates the neural circuits that support decision-making. When making decisions, humans and animals can flexibly integrate visual signals with other sources of information before committing to action. The ability to flexibly use incoming information distinguishes decisions from reflexes, offering a tractable entry point into more complex cognitive processes defined by flexibility, such as abstract thinking, reasoning and problem-solving.

To understand the neural mechanisms that support decision-making, the Churchland lab measures and manipulates neurons in cortical and subcortical areas while animals make decisions about visual (and sometimes auditory of multisensory) signals. To connect the neural responses with behavior, her lab uses mathematical analyses aimed at understanding how information is represented at the level of neural populations, both at a given moment and over time. Recent work has demonstrated that in diverse cell types, sensory and movement signals co-modulate neural activity, even in trained experts. The timing of movement signals is informative about the animal’s internal state of engagement.

Churchland has received research awards from the McKnight Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, The Merck Foundation and the Klingenstein-Simons Foundation. She received the James M and Cathleen D Stone award for significant research accomplishments (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020), the Janett Rosenburg Trubatch Career Development Award (Society for Neuroscience, 2012) for demonstrating originality and creativity in research. Her mentoring efforts have been recognized by the Louise Hanson Marshall Special Recognition Award for outstanding dedication to promoting the professional development of women (Society for Neuroscience, 2017) and the UCLA Excellence in Mentoring Award (2024). To broaden the impact of her lab’s efforts, Churchland maintains a YouTube channel and a TikTok stream featuring scientific content aimed at diverse audiences.

Dr. Churchland's talk will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7:15-8:15pm, Talk Room 1-2.

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Last Chance to Submit an Image 

for the T-shirt Design Competition

Deadline to submit outstanding creative visual images for the 2025 meeting is today!

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Deadline to submit Satellite and 

Social Event Applications is Today!

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Nominations are Now Open

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Important Dates

January 10 - Deadline for T-Shirt Competition

January 10 - Deadline for Satellite and Social Event Proposals

January 24 - Deadline to submit nominations for the 

Davida Teller Award and the Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence

February 10 - YIA Nominations Deadline

May 16-20, 2025 - VSS 2025

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