Associate Professor (Reader) in Computational Neuroscience
Email: Thomas (dot) Wennekers (at) plymouth (dot) ac (dot) uk
PhD Candidate in Computational Neuroscience
Email: Salvador (dot) DuraBernal (at) plymouth (dot) ac (dot) uk
PhD Candidate in Computational Neuroscience
Email: James (dot) Humble (at) plymouth (dot) ac (dot) uk
We recently represented the University of Plymouth at the closing event of this year's Science Festival in Brighton (Sunday the 6th of March 2011). The open day "Of All the Nerve" attracted more than 250 visitors aged from eight to 80 to the Sallis Benney Theatre in Brighton.
Throughout the day attendees interacted with our brain-inspired hard- and software systems.
In the evening Dr Wennekers gave a public talk about the relation between Brains and Technology. The talk addressed how we can learn from mechanisms of information processing in the brain to build future computers, and how technology can be used in applications like retina implants or brain-machine interfaces
The festival was funded by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to Richard Robinson, Jonathan Bacon, and Jamie Ward
During the first half of National Science and Engineering Week (11-20 March 2011) we took our system to two schools, one in Crediton and one in Plympton.
In the second half of the week we took part in Meet the Scientist events run by Brian Duke in Dorset.