What's a Brain For: A Moving Story

Speaker: Daniel Wolpert, Professor of Neuroscience, Principal Investigator, Zuckerman Institute

Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert is fascinated by how the brain controls our every movement. The ease with which humans move our arms, our eyes, even our lips when we speak masks the true complexity of the control. While computers can now beat grandmasters at chess, no computer can yet control a robot to manipulate a chess piece with the dexterity of a six-year-old child. Join Daniel as he discusses what makes control so hard, especially in the face of incomplete or rapidly changing information about the world.

Daniel Wolpert read medicine at Cambridge before completing an Oxford Physiology DPhil and a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. He joined the faculty at the Institute of Neurology, UCL in 1995 and moved to Cambridge University in 2005 where he was Professor of Engineering and a Royal Society Research Professor. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and made a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. In 2018 he joined the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University as Professor of Neuroscience. His research interests are computational and experimental approaches to human movement.

This conversation will be moderated by Shreya Saxena, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute.

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