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.
Past brain day lecturers include David van Essen, Patricia Churchland, William Bechtel, Geoff Hinton, Terry Sejnowski, Keith Holyoak, Jay McLelland, Tony Movshon, Larry Barsalou, John Hopfield, Jesse Prinz, and David Sheinberg.
Date:
Tues
April
6,
2010
Place:
Psychology,
Anthropology,
Sociology
building
(PAS),
room
2083,
University
of
Waterloo
Speakers:
Mel
Goodale
(University
of
Western
Ontario
(UWO)
-
Psychology
Jack
Gallant
(University
of
California,
Berkeley)
-
Neuroscience
Ken
Miller
(Columbia
University)
-
Computational
Neuroscience
Carl
Craver
(Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
(WUSTL)
-
Philosophy
Schedule:
8:30
Refreshments
9:00
Welcome
9:15
Mel
Goodale,
University
of
Western
Ontario
Title:
Two
Visual
Streams
with
One
Goal
in
Sight
10:30
Refreshments
provided
10:45
Carl
Craver,
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
Title:
Episodic
Thought
and
Moral
Agency
12:00
Lunch
(not
provided)
1:30
Ken
Miller,
Columbia
University
Title:
Why
the
Brain
is
Normally
Non-normal:
Excitation,
Inhibition,
and
Amplification
in
Brain
Circuits
2:45
Refreshments
provided
3:00
Jack
Gallant,
University
of
California,
Berkeley
Title:
Visual
Processing
of
Natural
Scenes:
Encoding,
Decoding
and
Applications
to
"Brain
Reading"
4:15
Reception
(PAS
Lounge)
-
Cash
Bar
Sponsored
by:
University
of
Waterloo
Centre
for
Theoretical
Neuroscience
Cognitive
Science
Program
Faculty
of
Arts