The fascinating aspects of the brain and how it works will be the topic at an upcoming seminar at New Westminster Secondary School.
Parents, students, staff, and community members are invited to attend a presentation hosted by the FastForword Consortium and featuring renowned neuroscientist Dr. Urs Ribary, who will be speaking on the fascinating world of the brain and how it affects how we perceive and process all of the sensory information from our outside world.
The presentation is called: Window into the Human Brain - How We Perceive and Process the Outside World, and is on at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov, 5, at the New Westminster Secondary School library.
There will also be discussion on how the brain alters its behaviour in cognitive abnormalities such as dyslexia and processing disorders, says an update on the New Westminster school district's website.
In particular, this presentation will highlight and illustrate the ability of how we perceive and process all of the sensory information from the outside world, how the brain can reorganize itself, and how the brain alters in cognitive abnormalities such as dyslexia, or in children with problems in processing executive functions, the updates says.
Ribary received his doctorate degree in Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland. He was a professor and director of a functional brain-imaging center at New York University Medical Center in New York. In 2007, he was awarded the endowed B.C. LEEF leadership chair in cognitive neuroscience in childhood health and development and professorship at SFU.
