Jan. 20 Panel Discussion on Brain and Behavior

[Jocelyn Duffy]

CMU To Present Panel Discussion on Understanding Brain and Behavior

Leading Scientists To Highlight CMU’s Excellence in Brain Research

Event: The enigmatic human brain, central to our development, health
and lives, is becoming less of a mystery. World-renowned Carnegie
Mellon University scientists are making important discoveries that
will help researchers to decipher and improve learning, perception and
thinking; deal with aging or injured brains; and treat and understand
disorders such as autism, dyslexia and Alzheimer’s. Carnegie Mellon
scientists also are using this information to build computers that
model the mind and that can think on their own. To highlight CMU’s
dedication to excellence in brain research, a field that spans across
its campus and disciplines, the university is presenting a panel
discussion featuring:

• Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction
Institute, School of Computer Science;
• Marcel Just, D.O. Hebb Professor of Psychology and director of the
Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging and the Scientific Imaging and
Brain Research Center;
• Michael J. Tarr, George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of
Cognitive Neuroscience and co-director of the Center for the Neural
Basis of Cognition;
• Nathan Urban, Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professor of
Life Sciences and head of the Department of Biological Sciences.

CMU Provost and Executive Vice President Mark S. Kamlet will moderate
the discussion to reveal how bringing together neuroscientists,
cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists and learning
researchers will shape the future of brain research and its
applications.

When: 5 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 20

Where: Rashid Auditorium, Room 4401, Hillman Center for Future-
Generation Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University

Media: To attend this event, please contact Jocelyn Duffy at
412-268-9982 or jhd...@andrew.cmu.edu or Shilo Raube at 412-268-6094
or sra...@andrew.cmu.edu.

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