April 2016 - 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 6, 2016

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

Speakers:
Philosophy - Berit Brogaard (University of Miami, Director of Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research)
Psychology - Stephen Read (University of Southern California, Social Affective Neuroscience of Decisions Lab)
Neuroscience - Sabine Kastner (Princeton University, Neuroscience of Attention and Perception Laboratory)
Computational Neuroscience - Larry Abbott (Columbia University, Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience)

Schedule:
8:30 am  Refreshments
9:00 am  Welcome
9:15 am  Sabine Kastner, Neural Dynamics of the Primate Attention Network (abstract)
10:45 am Berit Brogaard, The Superhuman Mind (video)
1:30 pm  Larry Abbott, Sense from Randomness in Neural Circuits (video)
3:00 pm  Stephen Read, Virtual Personalities: A Neuro-biologically Inspired Neural Network Model of Human Motivation and Personality (video)

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