Keith Kendrick - Understanding the Brain: A Work in Progress

From FORA.tv, Keith Kendrick talks on the state of the research into understanding the brain - we have come a long way, and we have an even longer way to go.

Summary

How billions of interconnected cells in the brain can interpret and regulate all our bodily functions as well as mediate our experiences of interactions with and responses to the world around us is a huge and fascinating question that many different disciplines have attempted to tackle. This lecture considers what we have learned so far about the principles of neural encoding and how they may begin to explain our memories, emotions and conscious awareness.

Keith Kendrick is a Systems and Behavioural Neuroscientist at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, and Emeritus Gresham Professor of Physics.

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