The Brain
2014 ICREA-CCCB Debates
Ruth de Diego: “Previously we were trying to discover which part of the brain carried out such and such a function, but now we think about networks”
Centre Documentació i Debat
The ICREA-CCCB debates on “The Brain” end on Tuesday 1 April with the lecture titled “Lessons from Brain Lesions”, which is to be given by the University of Barcelona researcher Ruth de Diego. We have asked her to explain in advance why study of behaviour patterns and ...
Mavi Sánchez-Vives: “In 20 seconds we can produce the illusion of ownership of a third arm”
Centre Documentació i Debat
On Tuesday 25 March Mavi Sánchez-Vives, ICREA research professor at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) will give a lecture titled “Brain and Virtual Reality“, the third in the ICREA-CCCB series of debates on “The Brain”. We have interviewed ...
Albert Costa: «In bilingual people brain deterioration is slower»
Albert Forns
The third series of ICREA-CCCB debates, «The Brain», continues on Tuesday 18th March with the lecture “The Bilingual Brain” by the ICREA research professor Albert Costa, one of the world’s leading scientists working in neurolinguistics. We have spoken with him ...
Alternatives to evolution
Albert Forns
The challenges and new discoveries in brain research are the subject of «The Brain», the ICREA-CCCB debate which, over the coming four Thursdays, will make known the work of some of the country’s leading researchers in the neurosciences. The cycle begins with a lecture by ...