Tuesday, 7th July 2009
Outlook
10:00am - 10:30am Tea & Coffee, Complexity Doctoral Training Centre, Common Room.
10:30am - 11:00am How genes may build brains. Genes, emotion, stochastic neurodynamics, and decision-making I.*) By Edmund T Rolls, International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick.
Short Break.
11:00am - 12:30am How genes may build brains. Genes, emotion, stochastic neurodynamics, and decision-making II.*) By Edmund T Rolls, International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick.
12:30am - 1:30pm Lunch Break, Complexity Doctoral Training Centre, Common Room.
1:30pm - 2:30pm Discussion on novel directions in joint genetics and neurobiology research.
*)Suggested reading:
Deco,G., Rolls, E.T. and Romo,R. (2009). Stochastic dynamics as a
principle of brain function. Progress in Neurobiology 88: 1-16.
Rolls, E.T. and Stringer,S.M. (2000) On the design of neural networks in
the brain by genetic evolution. Progress in Neurobiology 61: 557-579.
Rolls, E.T. (2008) Memory, Attention, and Decision-Making: A Unifying
Computational Neuroscience Approach. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Rolls, E.T. (2005) Emotion Explained. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
See also www.oxcns.org