The Brain and Evolution: An Anthropology Symposium – SATURDAY 04/10/10

An Anthropological Exploration of the Brain, Language, Emotion, Culture, and our Evolutionary Past.

Tentative Outline of Talks:
9am – Coffee and Student Posters
10am – Georg Striedter – Principles of Brain Evolution (evolutionary neurobiology based talk)
11am – Michael Arbib -Mirror Neurons and More: Language and Tool Use
12am – Clark Barrett – (evolutionary psychology based talk)
1pm – Lunch
2pm – Katerina Semendeferi – ( Evolution of emotional and cognitive processes in hominoids)
3pm – Sang-Hee Lee – (Changes in brain morphology over evolutionary time)
4pm – Meet and Greet

Featuring guest speakers:

Georg Striedter, UCI Neurobiology & Behavior
http://striedterlab.bio.uci.edu/StriedterLaboratory/page4/page13/page13.html

Michael A. Arbib – Director, USC Brain Project
http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=16

Clark Barrett, UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/barrett/

Katerina Semendeferi, UCSD Anthropology/Neuroscience
http://anthropology.ucsd.edu/Faculty_Profiles/semendeferi.html

Sang-Hee Lee, UCR Anthropology
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~shlee/

In addition 2 PSA members as well as 3 other Anthropology students will be presenting posters at the Symposium so come out and support your classmates!