April 2017 - Waterloo Brain Day

The 11th Annual Waterloo 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 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 5, 2017

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

Speakers:
William Seager, University of Toronto
Marisa Carrasco, New York University
Konrad Kording, Northwestern University
James DiCarlo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Schedule:
8:30 am   Refreshments
9:00 am   Welcome
9:15 am   William Seager, The Brain, Consciousness and the Deep Structure of Matter
10:45 am  Marisa Carrasco, How Attention Modulates Perception
1:30 pm   Konrad Kording, Unknown Unknowns in Neuroscience
3:00 pm   James DiCarlo, Reverse Engineering Primate Visual Object Recognition
4:15 pm   Reception (EV3 Atrium)

Sponsored by:
University of Waterloo Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN), Cognitive Science Program, and Faculty of Arts.

 Past Waterloo Brain Days