Calendar of Events

• February 25th 8:30 pm Scott Hall, Room 207
  Guest Speaker: Stephen Stich "Is Morality a Kludge?" : A review of some recent work suggesting that the psychological mechanisms underlying moral judgment are a hodgepodge of rather poorly designed systems.

• March 10th, 8:30 pm Scott Hall, Room 207
  Guest Speaker: Doug DeCarlo, Computer Science Department

• March 24th, 6:30pm
  (NYC train leaves at 4:28pm)
  Neuroscience of the Groove: What is the explanation for our love of music, rhythm and dance? In this evening of erudition and performance, Columbia University neuroscientists Dave Sulzer and John Krakauer will discuss the brain activity that makes us groove to the beat of music. Krakauer co-directs the Motor Performance Laboratory and Soldier investigates synaptic connections that underlie memory, learning and behavior.

• April 7th, 8:30 pm Scott Hall, Room 207
  Guest Speaker: TBA

• April 18th, 3:00pm
  (NYC train leaves at 1:32pm)
  BrainWave presents Common Senses: responds to current neurological discourse by visualizing and investigating the brain’s capacity for perception, memory, emotion and logic—the forces that drive creativity. It brings together work by artists involved with research in cognition, artists that respond critically to the new technologies in neuroscience, and projects in which artists and scientists have collaborated to advance understanding of the mysteries of the brain.

• April 28th, 8:30 pm Scott Hall, Room 207
  Guest Speaker: TBA