Consciousness: The Movie in Your Mind
Monday, May 4, 2009
Christof Koch, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

MSF Research Award Grantee

For the past 20 years, Christof Koch, Ph.D., has sought to explain how the vivid impressions of our sensory experience are generated by the interactions of networks of neurons that embody our minds. Dr. Koch presented a lively overview of his scientific research program aimed at discovering the answer to one of the great scientific questions of our time: What is the material basis of conscious awareness?