Newswise — The future of cognitive and neuroscience research will be discussed by leaders in the field at the Jan. 14-15 Decade of the Mind IV Symposium sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories.
"Scientific breakthroughs in cognition and neuroscience are at a crossroad and a revolution of mind research is underway," says John Wagner, manager of Sandia's cognition department and symposium chair. "Innovative new technologies are emerging in the areas of reverse engineering of the brain, computational neuroscience cognition modeling and massive neuronal simulations. This symposium will look at the future of all of these."
The Decade of the Mind Symposium, subtitled "Reverse Engineering the Brain: Sowing the Seeds for Technology Innovation," will be held at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, 1300 Tuyuna Trail, Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M., north of Albuquerque, and is open to the public.
A product of the symposium will be a white paper that will explain why brain science is critical to national security, looking at brain injury and brain maladies, human-machine systems, training, and nonkinetic conflict.
Media planning on attending any part of the Decade of the Mind symposium must call Chris Burroughs at (505) 844-0948 by 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13. Media meets at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa. Directions and other info at http://dom-4.org/travel08.html. Media availability for key symposium speakers and leaders in the cognition field at 10 a.m. Jan. 14.
For information on speakers and more information on the symposium, see http://dom-4.org. Also, contact Kevin Dixon at 505-284-5615 or [email protected].
Decade of the Mind cosponsors include the Krasnow Institute at George Mason University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe Institute, the University of New Mexico, MIND Research Network and the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness.
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