Conversations About Neuroscience

Howard Burton

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Ideas Roadshow
30 December 2020

Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Developmental biology; Molecular biology; Cellular biology (cytology)

Series: Ideas Roadshow Collections

Conversations About Neuroscience consists of the following 5 Ideas Roadshow Conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with world-leading neuroscientists. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:

I. Constructing Our World: The Brain's-Eye View - A conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett, Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. This extensive conversation explores Lisa Feldman Barrett's fascinating research on how the brain works and the development of her theory of emotion: every moment of our life, our brain is anticipating and making sense of sensory inputs from its environment-the combination of the internal environment of the body and the external environment-and our brain uses conceptual knowledge to do that.

II. Knowing One's Place: Space and the Brain - A Conversation with Jennifer Groh, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. This wide-ranging conversation examines Jennifer Groh's extensive research on how the brain combines various streams of sensory input to determine where things are, together with the corresponding implications for a wide range of issues, from neuroplasticity to our predictive brain to evolutionary mechanisms.

III. Vision and Perception - A Conversation with Kalanit Grill-Spector, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. This conversation explores how functional imaging techniques are used to visualize the brain in action and how it functions to recognize people, objects and places. Kalanit also discusses how the anatomical and functional properties of the brain change from infancy to childhood through adulthood, and how this development is related to improved visual recognition abilities.

IV. Investigating Intelligence - A conversation with John Duncan, Professor of Neuroscience at University of Cambridge. What is intelligence and what does IQ testing tell us? Can intelligence be measured and improved? What role does our frontal lobe play in executive control? John Duncan has rigorously investigated these types of issues for years and this conversation covers all those questions plus topics such as impairments following brain damage, functional brain imaging, and the brain basis for attention, intelligence and cognitive control.

V. Minds and Machines - A conversation with Miguel Nicolelis, Professor of Neuroscience at Duke University. This thought-provoking conversation dives into Miguel Nicolelis' extensive research for over 20 years now and how he has been blurring the line between science fiction and science fact, developing increasingly sophisticated ways of harnessing the thoughts of rats, monkeys and humans to drive mechanical devices in the rapidly emerging field of brain-machine interfaces.

Ideas Roadshow award-winning conversations present a wealth of candid insights from some of the world's leading experts, generated through a focused yet informal setting. Combining accessibility, substance and spontaneity, they are explicitly designed to give non-specialists a unique window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be experienced through standard lectures and textbooks.

By: Howard Burton
Imprint: Ideas Roadshow
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781771701051
ISBN 10: 1771701056
Series: Ideas Roadshow Collections
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 30 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

For his award-winning multimedia initiative Ideas Roadshow, Howard Burton has hosted and filmed in-depth conversations with more than 100 world-leading experts, including 3 Nobel Laureates, through a focused yet informal setting. Howard has been able to capture candid, behind-the-scenes insights into frontline academic research featuring world-leading researchers, including 3 Nobel Laureates, while revealing the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research. Howard Burton was the Founding Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.

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Conversations About Neuroscience

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