Pleasure, Reward and Value: Philosophy of the Mind Conference
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 7 men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 42%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (reward OR value) AND neuro* and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 22 pages of results using our python script.
18th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF)
Sponsors: Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Plexon Inc and Electrical Geodesics, Inc.
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 3 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (multisensory OR multi-sensory OR cross-modal) AND perception and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 68 results using our python script.
Organizers: Steve Luck and Emily Kappenman
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 9 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 43%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword ERP OR “event-related potentials” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 203 results using our python script.
Workshop on Tactile Coding and Neuroprostheses
Organizers: Silvestro Micera, Henrik Jorntell, Calogero Oddo and Alberto Mazzoni
Sponsors: see acknowledgements on website
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 12 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: we searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “neuroprostheses OR (tactile AND coding)” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 52 results.
Advanced Course Spring 2017: Learning and Memory
Organizers: Susumu Tonegawa, Alcino J. Silva and Nicolas Bazan
Faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman : 6 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “(learning OR memory) AND neuro*” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 13, 27, 40 and 54 of 67 results pages. (Search was originally done in December 2016.)
Learning, Inference and Control of Multi-Agent Systems at NIPS 2016
Organizers: Thore Graepel, Marc Lanctot, Joel Z. Leibo, Guy Lever, Janusz Marecki, Frans Oliehoek and Karl Tuyls
Sponsor: DeepMind
Speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 6 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Vision: A Platform for Linking Circuits, Behavior & Perception
Organizers: Farran Briggs, Andrew Huberman and Onkar Dhande
Sponsors: Helmsley Charitable Trust and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 15 Men (32%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 44%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “visual AND neuro” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 5, 10, 15 and 20 of 25 results pages.
6th International Conference on Transcranial Brain Stimulation 2016
Organizer: Walter Paulus
Speaker gender ratio: 9 Women : 55 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 22%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “transcranial AND stimulation” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 3, 7 and 10 of 11 results pages.
International Symposium « Cognition & Psychiatry »
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 12 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 38%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “cognition AND psychiatry” and used our python script to classify results, manually adding in names that were not found.
American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Annual Meeting
Organizers: Meriem Bensalem-Owen, MD, FACNS and Frank W. Drislane, MD, FACNS
Speaker gender ratio: 41 Women : 138 Men (23%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “clinical neurophysiology” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 25, 45 and 65 of 68 results pages.
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