Sessions Details

Confluence of Indian Knowledge System and Neuroscience

Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury
School of Computing and Electrical Engg, IIT Mandi
Dr. Arnav Bhavsar
School of Computing and Electrical Engg, IIT Mandi

From time immemorial, the notion of ‘Mind’ has tinkered the philosophers and scientists. The ancient Indian philosophies understood the Mind and explained the processes to understand life. Contrary to this, modern neuroscience has progressed significantly in explaining the brain, its components, structural and functional connectivities and processes. Still the enigma called “MIND’ and its deeper questions remain. Does Neuroscience map with the older models evolving from the Indian Knowledge Systems? Is there a continuity in the knowledge about Mind, Brain and behaviour, from past to future? This special session is aimed at unraveling the attempts to reveal the link, interface and questions between the rich Indian knowledge systems that addressed ‘Mind’ and the state of the art neuroscience.


Extended abstracts are invited for this special areas in topics such as (but not restricted to): Effects on yoga, meditation, chanting, music, dance and other similar practices on cortical excitability, cerebrovascular reactivity, neurovascular coupling, neural connectivity, attributes of neural signals, cognitive enhancement, affective response etc.


Important Information:

Kindly submit your abstract/extended abstract/paper at: https://forms.gle/GJWip6jw7awS7k8X8
You may find details of the format and other information about the conference at http://iksmha.iitmandi.ac.in/mbcc


Word limit for extended abstracts: 1000 words (up to 3 pages including tables and figures and excluding references)


Deadline :

Last date for extended abstracts submission 30th September 2023
Announcement of the accepted abstracts 20th October 2023

Every submission will be reviewed by at least two researchers in this field. As per the guidelines of the organizing team of MBCC-2023, we will select around 6 articles for presentation in this special session of MBCC-2023 at IIT Mandi.

Contact:

arnav[at]iitmandi.ac.in
src[at]iitmandi.ac.in