Science and a Sense of Place

Welcome to my place on Serendip Exchange (and on the web). In preparation for the Science and Sense of Place Institute that I coordinate with my friend and colleague, Anne Dalke, I have been trying to locate myself in science. What do I do? Where do I situate myself? What topics intersect with my interest most often?

Hi. I'm Anne Dalke. Like some of you, I'm trying to make the move, now, from "brain and behavior" to "science and a sense of place..."

I'm also working very hard this summer on finding a new, personally designed 'sense of place.' I'm living a tandem life, going back and forth between my so-beautiful farm and family life in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, and my so-engaging work and colleagues @ Bryn Mawr.

Here is my picture

Brain and Computer

    We were talking about the brain and what
methods we could think of to study the brain and its
mechanisms. As we discussed, a lot of research has been able
to show us which parts of the brain are active during certain
activities, and how those parts actually function.
Probably the most comprehensive idea I came up with was to
use computers to imitate the brain, to see if this would help
us to understand it better.