University Times

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a joint project of Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University, will have a grand opening celebration for its new facilities tomorrow, Oct. 11.

The opening will begin with a discussion of "Dialogs in Cognitive Neuroscience: Research Themes of the CNBC" at 3 p.m. in the Mellon Institute conference room.

CNBC co-director James McClelland will provide the introduction, while Marlene Behrmann and Carl Olson will discuss "Spatial Representations in the Brain" and Julie Fiez and David Plaut, "Brain Mechanisms of Reading." The discussions will be followed at 5 p.m. with a lecture in the Mellon Institute auditorium.

Robert Moore, CNBC co-director and a Pitt faculty member in psychiatry, will begin the second half of the celebration with reflections on the CNBC, followed by Leslie Ungerleider of the National Institute of Mental Health, who will speak on "Brain Imagining Studies of Plasticity." A reception will follow the lecture.

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition is dedicated to the study of the neural basis of cognitive processes, including learning and memory, language and reading, perception, attention, thinking and planning.

CNBC was established in 1994 with a grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.