Ageing Brains and Ageing Minds – Monday 29th September 2014, 7pm
‘My brain might be 70 years old but who I really am isn’t!’ What is the relationship between a person and the brain? Need we think of ageing as impairment just because mental processes are subject to age-related change? This…
Being social, being sneaky and being human: how to win friends and influence people – Mon 30th, 7pm
Humans are intensely social; our lives are inextricably entwined with the lives of others. Relationships between ourselves and others in our social group are variable. Some are based on family ties, while others are maintained as friendships, work relationships or…
Exercise and Training – When Less is More – Wed. 14 Sep 2011
We all know that exercise is good for us but few people do enough exercise to produce health benefits. One of the major reasons for non participation is time. But what if we told you that as little as 6-15 minutes…
Mood detectors: Can computers understand the way we feel?
What do you think of when you hear the term artificial intelligence? Outrageous Hollywood movies like machines taking over the world perhaps! In computing we are trying to teach machines to behave with at least as much intelligence as human…
Monkey business: what primates may tell us about ourselves? – 29th March 2010
What makes us human? How unique are we compared to our closest evolution relatives? This discussion looked at some of these primate species and what they may (or may not) show us about ourselves. It asked the audience to consider what…