Dear Imagers,
I would like to invite you to this year's Berlin Colloquium:
"Exploring the mind: What the brain reveals about our thoughts"
(May 9th, Berlin)
English website:
http://www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de/home/events/berlin/en/start.html
German website:
http://www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de/home/events/berlin/de/start.html
The Berlin Colloquium is a one-day symposium that brings together
international experts working on neuroscientific approaches to
"reading out" people's thoughts from their brain activity. The conference
language is English, but a German translation will be offered.
We would be happy to welcome you in Berlin!
With best wishes,
John-Dylan Haynes
Berlin Colloquium of the Daimler Benz Foundation
on "Brain-Reading" (May 9th, Berlin)
Every thought is associated with a characteristic pattern of
activation in the brain. By training a computer to recognize these
patterns, it becomes possible to read a person's thoughts from
patterns of their cerebral activity. In this way a person's brain
activity can betray their thoughts and emotions, can gives clues
whether they are lying, or can even predict what they are about to do.
This recent progress in brain science has made completely new insights
into thought processes possible. We can now investigate how thoughts
are stored in the brain, or how intentions unconsciously arise and
affect our behavior. But these findings are not just of interest for
the scientific disciplines involved. They have important implications
for our understanding of human nature. Also, they lay foundations for
important applications: For example, with the help of a "brain
computer interfaces", paralysed patients can control technical devices
solely "with the power of their thoughts".
In the 11th Berlin Colloquium, brain scientists from the USA, Canada
and Europe will present this new field of "brain-reading", while at
the same time providing a forum for discussion on the future
perspectives of these methods. In particular, the ethical question
will be of interest, to which extent such "thought technology" is
compatible with "mental privacy".
Speakers
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Borck
McGill University
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Curio
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Prof. Dr. Rainer Goebel
Universiteit Maastricht
Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Prof. Dr. Christof Koch
California Institute of Technology
Prof. Dr. Daniel D. Langleben
University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger
Universität Mainz
Prof. Dr. Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
Duke University Medical Center
Prof. Dr. Adrian Owen
MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
Prof. Dr. Henrik Walter
Universitätsklinikum Bonn
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John-Dylan Haynes, PhD
Professor for Theory and Analysis of Large Scale Brain Signals
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and
Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
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