News Express: UM hosts 6th Macau Symposium on Cognitive and Brain Sciences
新聞快訊：澳大辦第六屆澳門認知與腦科學研討會
第六屆澳門認知與腦科學研討會
The 6th Macau Symposium on Cognitive and Brain Sciences
澳大辦第六屆澳門認知與腦科學研討會
為推動跨學科合作與學術交流，澳門大學協同創新研究院舉辦“第六屆澳門認知與腦科學研討會”。來自史丹福大學、加州理工學院、北京大學、香港大學、香港理工大學、中國科學院自動化研究所等知名高校及科研機構的專家學者圍繞相關議題展開探討，吸引逾270人參會。
開幕式上，澳大副校長葛偉強調了認知與腦科學在深化對人類行為的洞察以及促進心理學、神經科學、人工智能等學科間協同作用的關鍵角色。
在主題演講環節，史丹福大學醫學院精神病學與行為科學教授Allan Reiss講解了神經精神病學及臨床神經科學的複雜概念及待解決問題；加州理工學院認知神經科學教授Dean Mobbs介紹了區分焦慮與恐懼的心理生物框架；香港大學心理學系教授Benjamin Becker概述了整合轉譯方法，透過機器學習精準定位情緒的神經基礎；香港理工大學精神健康研究中心主任仇安琪探討了胎兒編程及其與母親心理健康、兒童腦部成熟及精神病理學的關聯。
研討會包括四場主題演講及十場邀請報告，包括成癮與決策、語言與認知、情緒、兒童發展與認知老化、視覺感知、神經影像學、精神與神經疾病、情感人工智能等關鍵領域。同場還設有海報展示環節，展出52張優秀海報，經過海報委員會評審，選出十項最佳海報獎及十項優異獎。
澳門科學技術發展基金行政委員會委員鄭冠偉；澳大科技學院院長兼協同創新研究院代院長須成忠，協同創新研究院副院長、認知與腦科學研究中心主任、研討會籌備委員會主席袁振，協同創新研究院副院長Christian Montag，以及一眾澳門高校學者亦出席研討會。
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UM hosts 6th Macau Symposium on Cognitive and Brain Sciences
To promote interdisciplinary collaboration and academic exchange, the Institute of Collaborative Innovation (ICI) at the University of Macau (UM) held the 6th Macau Symposium on Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MSCBS 2025). The event brought together experts and scholars from renowned universities and research institutions including Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, Peking University, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to discuss related topics. Over 270 attendees joined the symposium.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, UM Vice Rector Ge Wei, highlighted the vital role of cognitive and brain sciences in deepening our understanding of human behaviour, as well as in fostering synergies among disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
During the keynote session, Allan Reiss, Howard C. Robbins Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine at Stanford University, explained the complex concepts and unresolved issues in neuropsychiatry and clinical neuroscience. Dean Mobbs, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology, presented a psychobiological framework for distinguishing between anxiety and fear. Benjamin Becker, professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Hong Kong, presented an integrated translational approach to pinpointing the neural basis of emotions using machine learning. Qiu Anqi, director of the Mental Health Research Centre at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, examined fetal programming and its connections to maternal mental health, child brain maturation, and psychopathology.
The symposium featured four keynote talks and ten guest talks, covering key areas such as addiction and decision-making, language and cognition, emotion, child development and cognitive ageing, visual perception, neuroimaging, psychiatric and neurological disorders, and emotional artificial intelligence. The event also featured a poster session displaying 52 posters, with ten Best Poster Awards and ten Merit Awards presented by the poster committee.
The symposium was also attended by Cheang Kun Wai, member of the Administrative Committee of the Science and Technology Development Fund of Macao; Xu Cheng-Zhong, dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology and interim director of ICI at UM; Yuan Zhen, associate director of ICI and head of the Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at UM, and chair of the organising committee of MSCBS 2025; Christian Montag, Distinguished Professor and associate director of ICI at UM; and scholars from other local universities.
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https://www.um.edu.mo/news-and-press-releases/press-release/detail/62424/