Sejnowski Terrence J
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037 Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 2014;79:237-41. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2014.79.024885. Epub 2015 May 6.
The goal of the 79th Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology on Cognition held on May 28-June 2, 2014 was to survey recent advances in cognitive neuroscience and assess future prospects. The symposium succeeded beyond the dreams of the organizers and the participants were treated to an extraordinarily rich feast of 58 long talks, six short talks, and 137 posters. Equally important to the success of the symposium was the perfect setting for informal scientific exchange between 260 participants generously provided by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The sense that emerged from the symposium was that a threshold had been crossed and a new era in the study of cognition was underway. My attempt here will be to capture that sense of awakening, to trace the strands that gave rise to it, and to access its implications for future discoveries.
2014年5月28日至6月2日举行的第79届冷泉港定量生物学认知研讨会的目标是审视认知神经科学的最新进展并评估未来前景。这次研讨会取得了超出组织者梦想的成功，参会者享受了一场由58场长篇报告、6场短篇报告和137份海报组成的极其丰富的盛宴。对于研讨会的成功同样重要的是冷泉港实验室慷慨为260名参会者提供了进行非正式科学交流的完美场所。研讨会上浮现出的感觉是已经跨越了一个门槛，认知研究的新时代正在开启。我在此的尝试将是捕捉那种觉醒的感觉，追溯引发这种感觉的线索，并探究其对未来发现的影响。
