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| Date: | 09.05.2007, 09:00-20:00h |
| Location: | Akademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Tiergartenstraße 35
10785 Berlin Berlin Deutschland |
| Keywords: | Neuroscience |
| Details: | Every thought is associated with a characteristic pattern of activation in the brain. By training a computer to recognize these patterns, it becomes possible to read a person's thoughts from patterns of their cerebral activity. In this way a person's brain activity can betray their thoughts and emotions, can gives clues whether they are lying, or can even predict what they are about to do. This recent progress in brain science has made completely new insights into thought processes possible. We can now investigate how thoughts are stored in the brain, or how intentions unconsciously arise and affect our behavior. But these findings are not just of interest for the scientific disciplines involved. They have important implications for our understanding of human nature. Also, they lay foundations for important applications: For example, with the help of a "brain computer interfaces", paralysed patients can control technical devices solely "with the power of their thoughts". In the 11th Berlin Colloquium, brain scientists from the USA, Canada and Europe will present this new field of "brain-reading", while at the same time providing a forum for discussion on the future perspectives of these methods. In particular, the ethical question will be of interest, to which extent such "thought technology" is compatible with "mental privacy". |
| Organizer: | Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| Contact: | Frau Susanne Hallenberger Address: Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung Dr.-Carl-Benz-Platz 2 68526 Ladenburg Tel: +49 - (0)6203 - 1 09 20 Fax: +49 - (0)6203 - 1 09 25 Email: hallenberger@daimler-benz-stiftung.de |
| Webpage: | http://www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de/home/events/berlin/de/start.html |
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