This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
Memory is indispensable for us to function in daily life, and central to our identity as persons. Yet how memory works remains a mystery. Our featured speaker this Sunday, Dr. Mark Reimers, will give a talk about how recent science illuminates how memory works, including making memories, recalling them, and distorting them.
This will be the first in the following series of three linked talks by Dr. Reimers at Toronto Oasis:
- The Mysteries of Human Memory (Jan 22nd)
- Can We Understand Consciousness? (Feb 12th)
- Deceiving Ourselves (date TBD)
Dr. Mark Reimers works as a computational neuroscientist: studying brain function by applying statistical methods to look for patterns in large-scale and high-resolution recordings of brain activity and behavior. He applies these methods to understand normal brain function in memory and to shed light on mental illness.
Dr. Reimers has worked at the US National Institutes of Health, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics in Richmond, and now does research and teaches at Michigan State University. His broader aim is to ground our understanding of feeling and thought in the facts of biology.
Dr. Reimers was the leader of the Richmond Humanists in Virginia for five years, and now leads the UU Forum in Lansing, and speaks frequently at humanist and science outreach events in Michigan.
Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/khbwzsyfccbdc/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded: GMT20230122-163631_Recording_1920x1080.mp4