Workshop on Perceptual Learning: Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience
Organizers: Kevin Connolly and Adrienne Prettyman
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 3 men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 41%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (perception OR perceptual) AND learning and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 41 pages of results.
Harvard Economics and Psychology Working Group
Organizers: Sam Gershman, David Laibson and Xavier Gabaix
Sponsor: Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 8 Men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 22-37%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
13th International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON2017)
Organizers: Mike X Cohen and Birte Forstmann
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 2 Men (60%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37-52%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting 2017
Organizers: see here
Total speaker gender ratio: 44 Women : 56 Men (44%)
Invited symposia gender ratio: 11 Women : 11 Men (50%)
Submitted symposia gender ratio: 16 Women : 27 Men (37%)
Award lecture gender ratio: 2 Women : 3 Men (40%)
Data blitz gender ratio: 15 Women : 15 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37-52%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
Workshop on Brain Dynamics and Neurocontrol Engineering
Organizers: Jr-Shin Li and ShiNung Ching
Sponsors: see here
All invited speakers (incl. plenaries): 1 woman : 13 men (7%)
Plenary speakers: 0 women : 3 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 18%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (“brain dynamics” OR “neural dynamics”) OR neurocontrol and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 74 results.
PIRE Workshop/Summer School 2017
Organizers: Gustavo Deco, Maximilian Riesenhuber and Josef Rauschecker
Sponsors: National Science Foundation and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
Speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 11 men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 43%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (multisensory OR multi-sensory OR cross-modal) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 125 results.
5th Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms
Organizers: Yuval Emek and Saket Navlakha
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 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.
Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School (BCBT2017)
Organizers: Paul Verschure, Tony Prescott and Anna Mura
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 8 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Workshop on Information Processing and Behavioral Variability
Organizers: Rava da Silveira, Mark Dean and Michael Woodford
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 5 Men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
Spring Brain Conference 2017: Learning, Memory and Synaptic Plasticity
Organizers: Robert Malenka and Richard Morris
Sponsors: Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and The Brain Prize
Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 23 Men (26%)
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 performed in December 2016.
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