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BBI 2007 - schedule

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 8:54am

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE 2007

Monday, 9 July	Being a scientist/explorer/creator (theory)	Being a scientist/explorer/creator (practice)
Tuesday, 10 July	The brain as scientist/explorer/creator: Nested boxes and diversity/change	Using the Internet and Web
Wednesday, 11 July	Neurons and how they work: autonomy, variability, inhibition	Modelling neurons (PB)
Thursday, 12 July	The bipartite brain: The frog and the story teller	Web 3
Friday, 13 July	The output side of the nervous system: autonomy, homeostasis, distributed systems, genes/learning, models	Web 4

Monday, 16 July	The output side, continued: the cognitive unconscious and the I-function	Web 5
Tuesday, 17 July	The input side of the nervous system: "reality" and expectation, multiple perspectives and diversity, story telling	Web 6
Wednesday, 18 July	Generalized control mechanisms: mood, emotion, creativity, self	Drugs/stress/anxiety (ET)
Thursday, 19 July	The story teller, rationality, learning as a social activity; Human differences: their origins and significance	Web 7
Friday, 20 July	Implications for education	Seeing what has been done with the Web

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