[extropy-chat] Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Institute DVDs available

[Michael Anissimov]

Talks given at the recent inaugural symposium for the Redwood Center for 
Theoretical Neuroscience Institute (a formerly independent non-profit 
funded by Jeff Hawkins, now part of UC Berkeley) are now available as a 
DVD.  To order, send $5 to:

*DVD - Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience*
Attn: Guadalupe P. Brandon
University of California
132 Barker Hall #3190
Berkeley, CA 94720-3190
USA

Make the check out to "UC Regents".  Talks included are:

*Horace Barlow, Cambridge University*
"The Roles of Theory, Commonsense, and Guesswork in Neuroscience"
*Dan Kersten, University of Minnesota*
"Human Object Perception: Theory, Psychophysics & Imaging"
*Sue Becker, McMaster University*
"The role of the hippocampus in memory, contextual gating, stress and 
depression"
*Florentin Worgotter, University of Goettingen*
"Learning in Neurons and Robots"
*Discussion*
The Role and Future Prospects for Math/Computational Theories in 
Neuroscience
*David Heeger, New York University*
"What fMRI Can Tell Us about How Visual Cortex Works"
*Kevan Martin, ETH/UNI Zurich*
"Canonical Circuits for Neocortex"
*Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute*
"Dendritic Darwinism"
*Jeff Hawkins, Numenta*
"Prospects and Problems of Cortical Theory"

This is the cutting edge of neuroscience research.  Seems quite 
fascinating.  I can't wait to check it out!

-- 
Michael Anissimov                               http://singinst.org/
Advocacy Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence