The University of Waterloo is hosting a workshop to teach researchers from around the world how to build sophisticated brain models. Members of the media and the public are invited to attend tomorrow as participants demonstrate the large-scale brain models they built, running on laptops, robots, and specialized computers simulating neural functions.

The projects reproduce behaviours such as hearing, seeing, learning, spatial navigation, and analogical reasoning, using new kinds of biologically inspired sensors, including an artificial retina, and artificial touch sensing skin, and brain-like computer processors. 

The workshop is focused on using the Nengo brain simulator to build state-of-the-art cognitive and neural models. Professor Chris Eliasmith's lab at the Waterloo Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience developed it. This software was recently used to build the world's largest functional brain model, Spaun, and provides users with a versatile and powerful environment for simulating cognitive and neural systems.

Date: Friday June 20, 2014

Time: 4 to 6 p.m.

Location: Room 373, J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities, University of Waterloo

Admission is free.

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