The 10th Annual Waterloo Brain Day
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
-
Berit
Brogaard
(University
of
Miami,
Director
of
Brogaard
Lab
for
Multisensory
Research)
Psychology
-
Stephen
Read
(University
of
Southern
California,
Social
Affective
Neuroscience
of
Decisions
Lab)
Neuroscience
-
Sabine
Kastner
(Princeton
University,
Neuroscience
of
Attention
and
Perception
Laboratory)
Computational
Neuroscience
-
Larry
Abbott
(Columbia
University,
Centre
for
Theoretical
Neuroscience)
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,
The
Superhuman
Mind
(video)
1:30
pm
Larry
Abbott,
Sense
from
Randomness
in
Neural
Circuits
(video)
3:00
pm
Stephen
Read,
Virtual
Personalities:
A
Neuro-biologically
Inspired
Neural
Network
Model
of
Human
Motivation
and
Personality
(video)
Sponsored
by:
University
of
Waterloo
Centre
for
Theoretical
Neuroscience
(CTN),
Cognitive
Science
Program,
and
Faculty
of
Arts.