Quantitative Life Sciences Seminar - Thursday 26 March 4:00pm

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES SEMINAR

Thursday, 26 March -  4:00pm.

Lecture room H,
ICTP Leonardo Building (terrace level)


Vipin Srivastava

Currently visiting the Department of Physiology, Development and 
Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK;
Permanently at: School of Physics, and Centre for Neural and Cognitive 
Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India


"Modeling cognitive learning and memory"

Abstract

How ideas from physics and mathematics can be improvised to make simple 
models to understand how the brain learns, memorizes and does certain 
other cognitive functions, will be discussed in simple terms. We also 
attempt to address questions like, 'why the long-term memory is robust 
against trauma', and 'how words are stored in mental lexicon'. While we 
deal with associative memory in some detail we discuss ways whereby 
other forms of memory, such as episodal memory, can be dealt with. We 
also provide a glimpse of how some of these hypotheses can be tested 
experimentally.

-- 
Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
e-mail: qls at ictp.it