Waterloo brain researchers, Chris Eliasmith, Paul Thagard, James Danckert, Richard Staines, and Bryan Tripp make headway understanding how we think.
Terry Stewart currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience will be speaking at the Centre for Knowledge Integration on November 15, 2013 from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. in EV3-1408. The title of his talk is Spaun: The first large-scale simulated brain that can perform tasks.
Science is about to change the world. Professor Stephen Hawking examines cutting-edge breakthroughs and their implications for the future in STEPHEN HAWKING'S BRAVE NEW WORLD. The six-part, original Canadian series returns for a second season. Hawking is joined by a crack team of scientists - including Dr. Carin Bondar and Professor Chris Eliasmith from Canada, Dr. Daniel Kraft from the U.S., and Professor Jim Al-Khalili and Dr. Aarathi Prasad from the U.K.
Chris Eliasmith gave a talk at the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) on October 23, 2013. The title of his talk was Handling the Complexities of Large-Scale Brain Models.
Here is a link to the online video.
Science is about to change the world. Professor Stephen Hawking examines cutting-edge breakthroughs and their implications for the future in STEPHEN HAWKING’S BRAVE NEW WORLD.The six-part, original Canadian series returns for a second season, premiering Friday, November 15 at 8 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT on Discovery World.
Professor James Danckert, a Canada Research Chair in cognitive neuroscience speaks on hemispatial neglect, where stroke victims ignore half of their space.
We have now posted the links to 3 of the lectures that were given on Brain Day 2013. They can be found here.
The University of Waterloo featured CTN research from the CNRG lab at the recent AAAS conference in Feb 2013.
