You might be wondering what IEEE and EMBS stands for. IEEE is an international engineering association. EMBS stands for the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, one of IEEE's many societies. The Waterloo student EMBS chapter holds invited lectures now-and-then, and I was happy to give one of those lectures today.I had a choice: I could do the safe thing and talk about image registration, a topic that I've published in, or I could talk about my real passion, the brain. I chose to talk about the brain. The title was "Computational Neuroscience". The image on the right is the poster advertising the talk.
The lecture went well (from my perspective, anyway). Addie was nice enough to lend me her kitty stuffy so that I could demonstrate what a neurophysiology experiment entails.
I was gratified to see the lecture hall fill up. The room wasn't very big, but it felt nice to know that some people were willing to stand for an hour to hear what I had to say.
Your sensations, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, memories, intentions, beliefs... are all patterns of neural activity in your brain.Don't believe me? You'll just have to go to my next lecture.
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