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Centre of Integrative and Applied Neuroscience
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The CIAN mobilizes research to address health, education, industry, and other applications important for the global community.
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We are hosting the first CIAN seminar of the year on Oct 2nd (note the new time!).
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September 15, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Please join us tomorrow for a CIAN seminar:
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April 30, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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We hosted Neuroscience Day last Monday, bringing together over 80 participants. The program featured 10 talks and 28 poster presentations by our trainees, and a keynote lecture, highlighting the breadth and impact of neuroscience research at York.
April 30, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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We are hosting two seminars next week:
Dr. Tirin Moore on April 8 and Dr. Carol Wilkinson on April 10. We hope you can join us.
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March 30, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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We were pleased to host Dr. Dan Yamins in a packed room last Friday for our seminar series.
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March 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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February 19, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Great session last Friday as Dr. Sabine Muzellec and Dr. Daanish Mulla presented their latest research at the CIAN seminar series.

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February 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Learn about Dr. Erez Freud and master’s student Emily Fewster’s research on hand use and motor strategies in autism.

Full article in Autism Research:
doi.org/10.1002/aur....

York's YFile:
yorku.ca/news/2026/01...

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Reduced Hand Specialization and Idiosyncratic Visuomotor Strategies in Autism During Naturalistic Object Manipulation
Autistic individuals exhibit altered perceptual and visuomotor behaviors, potentially due to reduced cortical specialization. The current study focuses on handedness, a robust marker of cerebral spec....
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January 22, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Takashi explaining his mouse stroke model to a packed room.
January 9, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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CIAN had the honour of hosting Dr. Takashi Sato last Friday.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Join us on January 9 for the monthly CIAN seminar.
Time: 2 PM-3:30 PM
Location: Kaneff Tower, room 519, York University, Keele campus.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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We have a great group of speakers lined up for our @yorku-cian.bsky.social / CSBBCS satellite symposium on 'Cognition and Action', June 4,5 '26 in Toronto. Calls for poster abstracts coming soon.

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Speakers - CIAN - Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience
Laurel Buxbaum Professor and Institute Scientist, Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute Theresa Desrochers Associate Professor, Brown University Randy Flanagan Professor Queen's University ...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Please join us for Dr. Perhune's talk on auditory-motor integration.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for Doug Crawford's seminar on landmark-centred coding in the human reach system.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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CIAN seminar update:
Dr. Sato’s talk has been rescheduled to Jan 9.
Dr. Doug Crawford, CIAN Director, will present this Friday, Nov 7.

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November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Exciting update: The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) will host its 2026 Meeting at York University,(June 1–3, 2026), followed by the Cognition and Action Satellite Workshop (June 4–5).
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October 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Join us on November 7 for the monthly CIAN seminar.
Dr. Takashi Sato, from @medunivsc.bsky.social, will present his research on stroke recovery.

Time: 2 PM-3:30 PM
Location: Kaneff Tower, room 519, York University, Keele campus.

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October 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Thank you, Dr. Jonathan Cant from University of Toronto Scarborough, for an engaging and insightful seminar.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Please join us. A @connectedminds.bsky.social
Conference at the York University Student Centre. October 6th, at 3 PM. Opening keynote address by Dr. Michael Inzlicht from University of Toronto.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Join us on October 3rd for a CIAN seminar by Dr. Jonathan Cant, University of Toronto Scarborough.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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At last Friday’s seminar, Dr. Intzandt gave an engaging look into her research on how aging and the effects of physical activity differ between sexes.
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September 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Congratulations to CIAN member Jeni Pathman!
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September 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM