Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
Engineering 7, Sixth floor
Tel 519 888-4567, ext. 42638
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