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.
Past brain day lecturers include 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, and David Sheinberg.
Date:
Wed
April
4,
2012
Place:
Psychology,
Anthropology,
Sociology
building
(PAS),
room
2083,
University
of
Waterloo
Speakers:
Neuroscience
-
Gyorgy
Buzsaki
(Rutgers
University)
Computation
-
Michael
Hasselmo
(Boston
University)
Psychology
-
Michael
Tarr
(Carnegie
Mellon
University)
Philosophy
-
Ian
Gold
(McGill
University)
Schedule:
8:30
Refreshments
9:00
Welcome
9:15
Gyorgy
Buzsaki
(Rutgers)
[Video
of
Gyorgy
Buzsaki's
Lecture]
Title:
Oscillatory
Organization
of
Cell
Assembly
Sequences
10:30
Refreshments
provided
10:45
Michael
Hasselmo
(Boston)
[Video
of
Michael
Hasselmo's
Lecture]
Title:
Oscillations
and
Grid
Cells
in
Entorhinal
Cortex
12:00
Lunch
(not
provided)
1:30
Michael
Tarr
(Carnegie
Mellon
University)
[Video
of
Michael
Tarr's
Lecture]
Title:
Unraveling
the
Neural
Architecture
of
Human
Face
Recognition
2:45
Refreshments
provided
3:00
Ian
Gold
(McGill)
[Video
of
Ian
Gold's
Lecture]
Title:
Knowing
Other
Minds
4:15
Reception
(PAS
2464)
-
Cash
Bar
5:30
Speaker
dinner
Sponsored
by:
University
of
Waterloo
Centre
for
Theoretical
Neuroscience
Cognitive
Science
Program
Faculty
of
Arts