Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar w/ Dani Bassett – SRP Livestream Locations

We invite you to join us for today’s Neurosciences Seminar. The seminar will be held in-person on the main Stanford campus with 3 satellite viewing locations in Stanford Research Park.

🗓️ Jan 15, 2026

Network cognition in a curious world
Dani Bassett, PhD

University of Pennsylvania | Host: Michelle Hedlund (Neural Interaction Lab [Coleman Lab])

In this talk, I will describe a notion of network cognition that manifests in how we engage with the curious world around us. To do so, I will draw together three lines of inquiry in mind, brain, and computation. I’ll begin with a line of inquiry into connective curiosity (“How do we connect bits of information as we walk about the world?”), then move into graph learning (“How do we build larger network models from those connections?”), and finally end in network control theory (“How is that model building constrained by the brain’s own connective structure?”). The studies discussed will span experiment, model, and theory, and bridge human behavior, neural representations, and computational science. Together they frame a formal investigation into network cognition and motivate future inquiry.

⏰ Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (PT)
Come 15 minutes early (11:45 AM) to enjoy coffee, cookies, and conversation with the speaker and your colleagues (main campus location only)

📍 Locations:

• Main Campus (in person): Gunn Rotunda (E241), Stanford Neurosciences Building
• Stanford Research Park satellite locations:
  • 3172 Porter Drive, Room 253
  • 3174 Porter Drive, Room 140
  • 1070 Arastradero Road, Room 211

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