[CBIAnnounce] NYAS event on Monday

David Heeger david.heeger at nyu.edu
Tue Apr 28 14:41:26 EDT 2009


WHAT:
Neurocinematics! Where Neuroscience Meets Filmmaking
Right on the heels of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, join Science  
& the City, a program of the New York Academy of Sciences, the NYU  
School of Continuing & Professional Studies, and the Office of the  
Dean of Sciences at NYU, as a panel of experts on the brain and cinema  
draw an interdisciplinary connection between film and neuroscience.

David Heeger, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York  
University, is joined by colleagesUri Hasson of the Neuroscience  
Institute at Princeton University, Barbara Knappmeyer of the NYU  
Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory, Nava Rubin of the NYU Center  
for Neural Science, and Michael Grabowski, NYU Adjunct Instructor in  
Film, Video, and Broadcasting.

WHEN:  May 4, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
WHERE: The New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250  
Greenwich St. at Barclay St., 40th fl.
WHO:
David J. Heeger received his PhD in computer science from the  
University of Pennsylvania. He was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, a  
research scientist at the NASA-Ames Research Center, and an Associate  
Professor at Stanford before coming NYU. His research spans an  
interdisciplinary cross-section of engineering, psychology, and  
neuroscience, the current focus of which is to use functional magnetic  
resonance imaging (fMRI) to quantitatively investigate the  
relationship between brain and behavior. He was awarded the David Marr  
Prize in computer vision in 1987, an Alfred P. Sloan Research  
Fellowship in neuroscience in 1994, the Troland Award in psychology  
from the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, and the Margaret and  
Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences from New York University in  
2006.

Uri Hasson, Assistant Professor, Psychology Department and the  
Neuroscience institute, PrincetonUniversity, received his PhD in  
neurobiology from the Weizmann institute of Science and was a postdoc  
atNew York University. He was awarded the Rothschild Fellowships and  
the Human Frontier Long-Term fellowship. His work spans an  
interdisciplinary cross-section of neurobiology, cognitive psychology,  
and social neuroscience investigating the relationship between brain  
and behavior under natural viewing conditions. He is currently  
expanding his research to social communication, in an attempt to  
develop new tools for studying complex human behavior under real life  
situations.

Barbara Knappmeyer studied Biology and Mathematics at the Eberhard- 
Karls-University in Tuebingen,Germany. Investigating the importance of  
dynamic aspects of faces for the human face processing system, she  
earned her doctoral degree summa cum laude at the Max-Planck-Institut  
for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen in 2004. Afterwards, she was a  
postdoctoral fellow at New York University in David Heeger's group  
working on various projects with a focus on using movies in  
combination with fMRI technology to study the relation between  
personality traits and individual differences in brain activity in  
humans.

Nava Rubin is Associate Professor of Neural Science at New York  
University. Her Research focuses on the neural basis of visual  
perception, visual cognition, and, most recently, social cognition. To  
address questions in these domains she uses an interdisciplinary  
approach combining behavioral and brain-imaging experiments with  
mathematical modeling and computational analysis. Prof. Rubin received  
her formal training in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (M.Sc. in  
Physics and Ph.D. in Neuroscience) and post-doctoral training  
atHarvard University. She is the recipient of a Rothschild and  
Fulbright Fellowships (1994), McDonnel-Pew Award in Cognitive  
Neuroscience (1996) and Alfred P. Sloan Research Award (2000).

Michael Grabowski is a filmmaker and teacher who won two Emmy Awards  
working in television on documentaries for Jonathan Demme, PBS,  
Lifetime, Court TV, commercials, and news. His films have played in  
numerous film festivals as well as at the Smithsonian, Guggenheim, on  
PBS, and in Cuba. Currently he is writing a book about the  
relationship between established film theories and discoveries in  
brain science. Michael teaches filmmaking at New York University and  
is an Associate Professor of Communication at The College of New  
Rochelle.

TICKETS:
$20 Non-members
$10 NYU Student, Staff, Faculty, or Alum, and NYAS members (use  
registration code NYAS)
MORE INFO & TICKETS:
www.nyas.org/neurocinematics

Adrienne Burke
Executive Editor
The New York Academy of Sciences
250 Greenwich St., 40th floor
New York, NY 10007
212.298.8655


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