The 8th Annual Waterloo Brain Day
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, David Sheinberg, Gyorgy Buzsaki, Ian Gold, Michael Tarr, and Michael Hasselmo.
We have now confirmed our speakers for Brain Day 2014. For previous year's speakers can be found at past events. As with last year, we will have the lectures posted, if available, on this website shortly after Brain Day.
Date:
Monday,
April
7,
2014
Location:
EV3-1408
(Environment
3
building,
room
1408)
Speakers:
Philosophy
-
Daniel
Dennett
(Tufts
University)
Psychology
-
Elizabeth
Phelps
(New
York
University)
Neuroscience
-
Barry
Richmond
(National
Institutes
of
Health)
Computational
Neuroscience
-
Randall
O'Reilly
(University
of
Colorado,
Boulder)
Schedule:
8:30
Refreshments
9:00
Welcome
9:15
Elizabeth
Phelps,
Changing
Fear
(video)
10:45
Randall
O'Reilly,
Goal-Driven
Cognition
in
the
Brain:
A
Computational
Framework
(video)
1:30
Barry
Richmond,
The
Interaction
of
Reward
and
Memory
in
Assessing
Reward
Values
3:00
Daniel
Dennett,
The
Hard
Question
of
Consciousness:
"And
Then
What
Happens?"
(video)
4:15
Reception
(PAS
2464
-
Psychology,
Anthropology,
Sociology
building)
Sponsored
by:
University
of
Waterloo
Centre
for
Theoretical
Neuroscience
(CTN),
Cognitive
Science
Program,
and
Faculty
of
Arts.