Nature and Nurture

Nature and Nurture

Date Posted:  May 3, 2011
Date Recorded:  May 3, 2011
CBMM Speaker(s):  Nancy Kanwisher, Elizabeth Spelke, Joshua Tenenbaum Speaker(s):  Terrence Sejnowski, Mriganka Sur
  • MIT150: Brains, Minds & Machines Symposium
Description: 

MIT150 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines

Moderator:

Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD '86, Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT

Panel:

Terrence Sejnowski, Francis Crick Chair, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Professor of Biology and Co-Director, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Elizabeth S. Spelke, Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology; Director, Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Harvard University

Mriganka Sur, Paul E. Newton Professor of Neuroscience; Head, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Director, Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain, MIT

Joshua B. Tenenbaum PhD '99, Paul E. Newton Career Development Professor of Cognitive Science and Computation, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT; Principal Investigator, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

See the MIT150 site for more information - http://mit150.mit.edu/symposia/brains-minds-machines.html