From: Michael Anissimov (anissimov@intelligence.org)
Date: Fri Nov 04 2005 - 08:38:29 MST
Talks given at the recent inaugural symposium for the Redwood Center for
Theoretical Neuroscience Institute (a formerly independent non-profit
funded by Jeff Hawkins, now part of UC Berkeley) are now available as a
DVD. To order, send $5 to:
*DVD - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience*
Attn: Guadalupe P. Brandon
University of California
132 Barker Hall #3190
Berkeley, CA 94720-3190
USA
Make the check out to "UC Regents". Talks included are:
*Horace Barlow, Cambridge University*
"The Roles of Theory, Commonsense, and Guesswork in Neuroscience"
*Dan Kersten, University of Minnesota*
"Human Object Perception: Theory, Psychophysics & Imaging"
*Sue Becker, McMaster University*
"The role of the hippocampus in memory, contextual gating, stress and
depression"
*Florentin Worgotter, University of Goettingen*
"Learning in Neurons and Robots"
*Discussion*
The Role and Future Prospects for Math/Computational Theories in
Neuroscience
*David Heeger, New York University*
"What fMRI Can Tell Us about How Visual Cortex Works"
*Kevan Martin, ETH/UNI Zurich*
"Canonical Circuits for Neocortex"
*Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute*
"Dendritic Darwinism"
*Jeff Hawkins, Numenta*
"Prospects and Problems of Cortical Theory"
This is the cutting edge of neuroscience research. Seems quite
fascinating. I can't wait to check it out!
-- Michael Anissimov http://intelligence.org/ Advocacy Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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