Third Sharif Neuroscience Symposium

The third Sharif Neuroscience Symposium (SNS2021) which is being held from 3rd- 5th of March 2021 (13-15th of Esfand 1399) aims to cover key advances in cognitive, computational and systems neuroscience as well as neuro-engineering by inviting experts in the fields from across the world to share their new findings and perspectives in a collegial atmosphere. This year, the symposium consists of a series of 16 invited talks by internationally and nationally renowned experts across various research areas including cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory, decision making, sensory processing, vision sciences, motor control and computational neuroscience. In addition, the symposium received abstract submissions from various research groups in Iran and internationally. Following, double blind peer review by the SNS2021 scientific committee, 44 abstracts were selected for a combination of 9 oral and 35 poster presentations. Honorable mention goes to colleagues from International School of Advance Sciences (SISSA) and Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) for the sizeable number of high-quality submissions this year. In addition to the main symposium, 5 satellite workshops covering areas from fMRI to neuromarketing were held or are being scheduled in the weeks leading to or following the main symposium and are warmly received by the community and attended by more than 100 participants overall. The current booklet contains comprehensive information about the SNS2021, including the detailed meeting schedule, the list of symposium sponsors, abstracts of invited speakers, and all accepted abstracts. Special thanks go to the executive committee consisting of student in the electrical engineering department at Sharif University of Technology who worked tirelessly in the months leading to the symposium for making it a reality and a success. This year symposium is fully online and thus easily accessible to the research community worldwide. We hope that this symposium enhances the excitement about neuroscience among the researchers in the country and would be happy to see its positive scientific impact reverberate for months and years to come among the students and faculty in the field. Ali Ghazizadeh, PhD Symposium Chair, SNS 2021 Faculty, Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology Dean, School of Cognitive Sciences, IPM