Transparent Brain
Visible Thoughts
Visible Thoughts
Thursday, June 11, 2009, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
So you thought nobody could know what you're thinking? Well, you're right. For now. But fMRI brain research, identifying patterns linked to thoughts, is moving forward at a pace that's surprising even experts. Host Scott Simon joins leading neuroscientists for a state-of-the-art tour through research that's closing in on an ability to make our thoughts visible. The program will also explore related research on brain controlled prostheses and the newly emerging field of neuroethics.
Moderator
Brooke Gladstone
Participants:
Professor John Donoghue was the founding chairman of the Department of Neuroscience at Brown, a position he held for thirteen years. He is currently the director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science, which unites more than one hundred Brown faculty members to support interdisciplinary research on the nervous system. Dr. Donoghue received a Jacob Javits award from the NIH and won Germany's Zulch Prize in 2007 for his research.
Brooke Gladstone is the Host and Managing Editor of NPR's On the Media from WNYC. She's also an accomplished print journalist with works appearing in the London Observer, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post and many other leading publications.
John-Dylan Haynes is a leading expert investigating neural correlates of consciousness and volitional processing, and has developed groundbreaking methods for decoding or "reading out" a person's mental states from their brain activity. He is Professor for Theory and Analysis of Large Scale Brain Signals at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin.
Frank Tong is a cognitive neuroscientist and an associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. He uses functional brain imaging and neural decoding methods to predict what people are seeing or thinking from their patterns of brain activity. His lab has revealed how the visual areas of the brain reflect the contents of what a person consciously perceives, pays attention to, or actively holds in memory. Dr.
Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, Raymond Schinazi Distinguished Research Professor of Jewish Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University. Dr.
