| Abstract |
Centennial Lectureship in Physics The understanding of how the human brain works has considerable potential, not only for health care (huge amounts of money are spent each year in developed countries to manage or rehabilitate large populations of neurological and psychiatric patients or simply aging populations), but also for improving human cognition at large (through optimized education, e.g., teaching of foreign languages, better communication between individuals, better understanding of social behaviours, art...). A major goal for NeuroImaging is to explore the brain at a spatial and temporal scale and provide information which, in combination with knowledge gain from other neuroscience fields, could give access to the neural code. Results are expected to impact not only health care, but also industry, artificial intelligence, social sciences and humanities.
The University of Texas at Austin |