Prof. Peter Ulrich Tse will be our guest on the 17th March. He is professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~petertse/)
He summarizes his research as “We use fMRI, DTI, and psychophysics in my lab to investigate the cognitive and neural bases of visual perception, attention and consciousness. Our research focuses on the visual perception of 3D form and motion, and how these two types of information interact with each other and with attention. Because the 2D visual image is inherently ambiguous, the visual system must construct 3D percepts on the basis of assumptions about the image-to-world mapping. One of our team's goals is to understand the assumptions that underlie the construction of visual percepts, and to understand the neuronal circuits that could realize such constructive processes. In addition to vision, attention and consciousness my lab has become increasingly interested in studying the neural bases of human creativity, free will and symbolic processing as well”
His two recent research works have been published MIT press:
Criterial Causation Offers A Neural Basis For Free Will
The Neural Basis Of Free Will
His talk "What are qualia from a neuroscientific point of view?" will take place on 17th March at Room Maisin.