Lecture: The Secret Life of the Mind
Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland
Lecture / Special Event
2301
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
From neuroscientist Mariano Sigman, an enthralling journey into the human mind. The Secret Life of the Mind unlocks the processes that control how we learn, reason, feel, think, and dream.
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Mariano Sigman
Mariano Sigman is a physicist by training and an international leading figure in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and decision making. He is the only Latin American scientist to be a director of the Human Brain Project and has been awarded a Human Frontiers Career Development Award, the National Prize of Physics, the Young Investigator Prize of "College de France," the IBM Scalable Data Analytics Award, and is a scholar of the James S. McDonnell Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from The Rockefeller University in New York and in 2016 he was made a Laureate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. His latest book, The Secret Life of the Mind is published by HarperCollins Publishers Australia.