The Director of the Institute of Biophysics, Tao Xu, and the President of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Robert Desimone, signed a memorandum on behalf of their institutes.

The guests in the ceremony also included Boer Wu, the Deputy Director of the Department of Facilities and Financial Support of the National Ministry of Science and Technology; Hai Xu, the Counselor of the Department of International Cooperation of the National Ministry of Science and Technology; Yonglong Lv, the Diector of the Bureau of International Cooperation of CAS; Chenghong Wang, the Director of  the Division of Engineering Science III of the Department of Engineering and Materials Sciences of National Natural Science Foundation of China; Robert Desimone, the Director of McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts of Sciences; Charles Gross, Professor of Princeton University and Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts of Sciences ; Gabriel Kreiman, Professor of Harvard University; Synn?ve Carlson, Professor of University of Helsinki; Jizong Zhao, Professor of Beijing Tiantan Hospital; Huancong Zuo, Professor of Xuquan Hospital, Tsinghua University; Ningli Wang, Professor of Beijing Tongren Hospital. The openning ceremony was hosted by Ming Sun, Director's Assisstant of the Institute of Biophysics.

The opening ceremony began with a brief introduction about the Center by Lin Chen, Member of CAS. Deputy Wu, Deputy Xu, Director Xu and Director Desimone all gave important speechs in the opening ceremony. They all believed that the Center collaboratively set up by the Institute of Biophysics and the world top brain and cognitive sciences organization--McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT-- will contribute greatly to the development of brain imaging researches, and will further help exploring and developing international academic cooperation mechanisms.

On October 28th, the First Symposium on Human Brain Recording was held at the conference hall at the Institute of Biophysics Six people, including Professor Gross, Professor Desimone and Professor Chen, gave their research talks about the newest findings in human brain recording,. Over one hundred participants ,including doctors from Beijing Hospital, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Xuanwu Hospital, Xuquan Hospital Tsinghua University, and researchers, from the Institute of Biophysics, the Institue of Psychology, the Institute of Automation, attended this symposium.

Direct measurement and recording of human cerebral cortex functions, named the "human brain recording" is the newest highlight and leading technology in brain and cognitive sciences. The human brain recording combines clinical neurosurgery, and uses various brain imaging and neural signal recording techniques to measure the human brain activities at various temporal and spatial scales, then uses different experimental paradigms of cognitive sciences, to directly "see" human cognitive and mental activities in vivo. "Human brain recording" has important and deep influences on both the understanding of the human brain mental world and the improvement of human mental health.