The videos from Brain Day 2023 are now available on line at our youtube channel. Hope you enjoy.
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, 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, Terry Sejnowski, Keith Holyoak, Jay McLelland, and Tony Movshon.
Date: Monday April 6, 2009
Place: Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology building (PAS), room 2083, University of Waterloo
Speakers:
Larry Barsalou (Emory) - Psychology
John Hopfield (Princeton) - Computation
Jesse Prinz (North Carolina) - Philosophy
David Sheinberg (Brown) - Neuroscience
Schedule:
8:30 Refreshments
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Lawrence Barsalou, Emory University
Title: Grounding Knowledge in the Brain's Modal Systems
10:30 Refreshments provided
10:45 Jesse Prinz, University of North Carolina
Title: Consciousness, Attention, and the Brain
12:00 Lunch (not provided)
1:30 John Hopfield, Princeton University
Title: Spike Timing, Rhythms, and the Effective Use of Neural
Hardware
2:45 Refreshments provided
3:00 David Sheinberg, Brown University (slides of Sheinberg lecture PDF)
Title: How the Brain Knows What's Out There: Exploring the Role of
Temporal Cortex in Recognition
4:15 Reception (PAS Lounge) - Cash Bar
Sponsored by:
University of Waterloo Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
Cognitive Science Program
Faculty of Arts