BrainHack Symposium: Minds in Motion

Minds in Motion explores the mind as an active, developing, and adaptive system: one that learns from experience, is shaped by social and cultural contexts, and continually responds to changing environments. Research on how minds work and develop is fundamental to advancing education, health, technology, and human flourishing. Yet the complexity of mind and development cannot be fully understood through any single discipline alone. This symposium therefore brings together cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, computational and biomedical sciences to spark new questions, connect methods, and build collaborations that can move discovery toward meaningful real-world impact.

This year's symposium is organised as part of BrainHack School, jointly run by Nanyang Technological University (Dr. Annabel Chen, Dr. Luo Lizhu, and Dr. Darren Yeo), National Taiwan University (Dr. Joshua Goh and Dr. Charlene Lee), and National Central University (Dr. Chun-Hsien Hsu and Dr. Tzu-Yu Hsu). Across two days, the programme will pair student project presentations with invited interdisciplinary talks spanning social cognitive sciences, humanities, computational sciences, and biomedical sciences. The event is supported by the Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre (CoNiC), the Cognitive and Behavioural Science Research Cluster at the School of Social Sciences, the Clinical Brain Lab, and the Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE), NTU Singapore, as well as NTU and NCU Taiwan.

Featured topics span multi-modal neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG, and MEG), eye-tracking, multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), AI-inspired approaches to cognition, and open science practices for reproducible research. We warmly welcome audience participation and discussion as part of the exchange, with the aim of generating fresh perspectives and future interdisciplinary collaborations.

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