April 2016 - À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Brain Day

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 8:30 am - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The 10th Annual À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Brain Day

silhouette of a brain with people standing on top of it
The brain is a horrendously complex and poorly understood system that poses both an immense challenge -- and possibly rich rewards -- to neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and computer scientists. To celebrate À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ's Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, which integrates these approaches to the brain, and to highlight the already established Cognitive Science Program, we have invited four internationally renowned speakers to present generally accessible lectures from each of these perspectives.

Past brain day lecturers include Daniel Dennett, Daniel Schacter, Paul Glimcher, David van Essen, Patricia Churchland, William Bechtel, Geoff Hinton, Jack Gallant, Ned Block, Carl Craver, Terry Sejnowski, Keith Holyoak, Peter Strick, Jay McLelland, Tony Movshon, Jonathan Cohen, Larry Barsalou, Sebastien Seung, Mel Goodale, John Hopfield, Jesse Prinz, David Sheinberg, Gyorgy Buzsaki, Ian Gold, Michael Tarr, and Michael Hasselmo.

Date:
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Location:
EV3-1408  (Environment 3 building, Room 1408)

Speakers:
Philosophy
- (University of Miami, )
Psychology - (University of Southern California, )
Neuroscience - (Princeton University, )
Computational Neuroscience - (Columbia University, )

Schedule:
8:30 am  Refreshments
9:00 am  Welcome
9:15 am  Sabine Kastner, Neural Dynamics of the Primate Attention Network (abstract)
10:45 am Berit Brogaard, (video)
1:30 pm  Larry Abbott, (video)
3:00 pm  Stephen Read, (video)

Sponsored by:
University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN), Cognitive Science Program, and Faculty of Arts. 

Past À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Brain Days