[4eyes] FW: [Sage-center] Sage Center lecture by Sebastian Seung: Thursday, January 10, 4 p.m., Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor

[Matthew Turk]

Some of you might be interested in this Sage Center talk on Thursday:

 

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Subject: [Sage-center] Sage Center lecture by Sebastian Seung: Thursday,
January 10, 4 p.m., Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor

 

Sebastian Seung

Sage Center Lecture

"Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are"

Thursday, January 10

4 p.m., Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor



Sebastian Seung is Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department
of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Physics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied theoretical physics with
David Nelson at Harvard University and completed postdoctoral training with
Haim Sompolinsky at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining the
MIT faculty, he was a member of the Theoretical Physics Department at Bell
Laboratories. He has been a Packard Fellow, Sloan Fellow, McKnight Scholar,
and PopTech Science Fellow.

Dr. Seung directs the scientific programs of WiredDifferently, an
organization that supports "citizen neuroscience." Its first project is
EyeWire, which mobilizes volunteers to map the retinal connectome. The
ultimate goal of WiredDifferently is to test the hypothesis that the
uniqueness of a person, from memories to mental disorders, lies in his or
her connectome. His research has been communicated to the general public by
the TED talk "I am my connectome" and book Connectome: How the Brain's
Wiring Makes Us Who We Are.

Dr. Seung's Sage Center lecture is Thursday, January 10 at 4 p.m. in the
Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor. His description of this talk follows:
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Every person is unique. You know this, of course, but it has been
surprisingly difficult to pinpoint where, precisely, your uniqueness
resides. Scientists have speculated that the properties of your mind, from
memories to mental disorders, are encoded in the unique pattern of
connections between your brain's neurons. This hypothesis is plausible, but
solid evidence has been lacking, because we have never been able to see the
brain's "wiring" clearly.  Sebastian Seung will explain how anyone,
anywhere, can help test the hypothesis by joining EyeWire.org, the first
online community for mapping neural connections.

 

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