Colloquium: The Neural Architecture of Cognition

11 December 2024

Colloquium by Prof. Mriganka Sur, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

Bio: Prof Mriganka Sur is the Newton Professor of Neuroscience in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT, which he founded after 15 years as head of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Prof. Sur studies the organization, plasticity and dynamics of the cerebral cortex of the brain using experimental and theoretical approaches. He has discovered fundamental principles by which networks of the cerebral cortex are wired during development and change dynamically during learning.

Date and time: 11 Dec 2024, 17:00 p.m., Sylt-Rapoport Hörsaal, Building B30, UKE Campus