Blueprint for a human brain : challenges from cognitive neuroscience
Event details
| Date | 07.10.2013 |
| Hour | 18:30 › 19:30 |
| Speaker | Stanislas Dehaene, HBP Subproject Leader for Cognitive Architectures - Head of INSERM/CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Human Brain Project launch - Science Talk (opened to the public)
The Human Brain Project will soon have enough computational power to simulate a significant fraction of the human brain, and enough knowledge of human micro-circuitry to mimic a cortical column in great detail. Will this suffice to wire up a human brain in silico? A pressing issue concerns the many levels of “mesoscale” cognitive architecture that need to be understood and simulated. Capturing a cognitive function requires the delineation of the brain areas involved, the format in which assemblies of neurons represent information, and the interconnections that allow them to exchange this information and converge onto a decision or an outcome. In the spirit of David Hilbert’s problems (1900), which challenged the mathematical community throughout the 20th century, I will present a (necessarily subjective) list of neuro-cognitive problems that call for a massive empirical and theoretical effort.
The Human Brain Project will soon have enough computational power to simulate a significant fraction of the human brain, and enough knowledge of human micro-circuitry to mimic a cortical column in great detail. Will this suffice to wire up a human brain in silico? A pressing issue concerns the many levels of “mesoscale” cognitive architecture that need to be understood and simulated. Capturing a cognitive function requires the delineation of the brain areas involved, the format in which assemblies of neurons represent information, and the interconnections that allow them to exchange this information and converge onto a decision or an outcome. In the spirit of David Hilbert’s problems (1900), which challenged the mathematical community throughout the 20th century, I will present a (necessarily subjective) list of neuro-cognitive problems that call for a massive empirical and theoretical effort.
Practical information
- General public
- Free