Thursday, January 21, 2010

Suzana  Herculano-Houzel (Professor, Universidad Federal de Rio) discusses  cortical scaling rules across phylogeny, the theory of human cortical  expansion in mammalian evolution, and how deceptively simple, almost  minimalist experiments have the power to shake dogma.

Duration: 36 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Jim Bower (Prof, UTSA, UTHSCSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.