Speaker from Denmark to Discuss Cognitive Neuroscience

Andreas Roepstorff from the Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at Aarhus University Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark, will be the first speaker in a series titled "Virtually Human: Science, Art, and the 21st Century Self," organized by the Institute for Prospective Cognition (IPC) in the Department of Psychology.

Roepstorff's talk is titled "Can We Find Ourselves in the Scanner?  Cognitive Neuroscience and its Impact on Cultural Notions of Self and Other" and will be presented at noon Monday, Oct. 27, in Moulton Hall room 208.

The IPC is a brand new institute, sanctioned by both the Department of Psychology and the College of Arts and Sciences.  It is housed in Psychology, but will ultimately involve faculty from all over the university.  As part of getting off the ground, IPC will sponsor one presentation per semester.

The speakers series was organized as a means of engaging both the scholarly community and the public at large in an extended conversation regarding the changing nature of 21st century art and science, the transformations these changes will undoubtedly usher into 21st century culture, and the pressures and opportunities these transformations will present to the 21st century self.

A reception will follow Roepstorff's talk in Moulton 102C.