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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Current Events

The Master and His Emissary: The Unmaking of Our World - March 12, 2012

We now know that each hemisphere plays a role in everything the brain does: the old dichotomies do not hold. Most neuroscientists have therefore abandoned the attempt to understand why nature has so carefully segregated the hemispheres – despite a large, and expanding, body of evidence about their differences at every level.

What Everyday Words Say About Us - April 16, 2012

According to Jamie Pennebaker (The Secret Life of Pronouns, Bloomsbury Press, 2011), the smallest words in our vocabulary say the most about us.

Computing with Neural Ensembles to Liberate the Brain - September 24, 2012

In this talk Dr. Miguel Nicolelis describes how state-of-the-art research on brain-machine interfaces make it possible for the brains of primates to interact directly and in a bi-directional way with mechanical, computational and virtual devices without any interference of the body muscles or sensory organs.

Rodolfo Llinas on Consciousness - November 12, 2012

Called the "founding father of brain science," Rodolfo Llinas's research interest encompasses all levels of brain science, from ion channels to cognition.

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