Holding the one-day workshop on the cognitive attention control at NBML, July 2018

NBML held the one-day workshop on the attention control system of the human from the perspectives of neurocognition and computational models taught by Dr. Golnaz Baghdadi on 12th July 2018. The audiences of this workshop included the students of neuroscience-related disciplines such as bioengineering, computer, and electrical engineering as well as some other people interested in the fields of cognitive neurosciences and computational sciences. Also, the workshop was open to talented high school students.

List of workshop topics:

• Definition of the "attention control" system
• The factors involved in the attention control system of the brain
• Introduction of the variety of the attention
• The role of attention in the different motor and cognitive functions
• General strategies for effective improvement in the attention system’s function
• Introduction of the computer games in this field
• The effect of electrical and magnetic stimulations on attention control system’s function
• The relationship between attention and brain signals
• Introduction of conceptual and computational models on how the attention control system functions