Why
a
Brain
Day?
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 Waterloo's recent establishment of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN), 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.
Date:
Friday,
April
27,
2007,
9:00
a.m.
-5:00
p.m.
Place:
Psychology,
Anthropology,
Sociology
building
(PAS),
room
2083,
University
of
Waterloo
Schedule:
9:00
Welcome
9:15
James
McClelland,
Psychology
Department,
Stanford
University
Title:
Semantic
Cognition:
A
Parallel
Distributed
Processing
Approach
10:45
William
Bechtel,
Philosophy
Department,
University
of
California,
San
Diego
Title:
The
Return
of
the
Mind-Brain
Identity
Theory
Lunch
1:30
Geoffrey
Hinton,
Computer
Science
Department,
University
of
Toronto
Title:
Learning
Deep
Generative
Models
in
a
Neural
Network
3:00
J.
Anthony
Movshon,
Center
for
Neural
Science,
New
York
University
Title:
Cortical
Analysis
of
Visual
Motion
4:15
Reception
Sponsored
by:
University
of
Waterloo
Centre
for
Theoretical
Neuroscience
Cognitive
Science
Program
Faculty
of
Arts