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SUMMARY:The master pupeteer: how the barin controls the body - Speaker to 
 be confirmed
DTSTART:20100223T200000Z
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CONTACT:Dr David Chapman
DESCRIPTION:The effortless ease with which humans move our arms\, our eyes
 \, even our lips when we speak masks the true complexity of the processes 
 involved. This is evident when we try to build machines to perform human t
 asks. While computers can now beat grand-masters at chess\, no computer ca
 n yet control a robot to manipulate a chess piece with the dexterity of a 
 six-year-old child. How the brain is able to learn to generate such skilfu
 l movement is one of the most intriguing questions in neuroscience and the
  focus of Professor Daniel Wolpert's lecture visit Wolpert's lab.\n\nProfe
 ssor Daniel Wolpert read medical sciences at Cambridge and clinical medici
 ne at Oxford before completing a PhD in the Physiology Department at Oxfor
 d. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT in Boston\, before moving to 
 the Institute of Neurology\, UCL. In 2005 he took up the post of Professor
  of Engineering for the Life Sciences at the University of Cambridge and i
 s a Fellow of Trinity College. His research interests are computational an
 d experimental approaches to understand how humans learn skilled movements
 .\n\n
LOCATION:Babbage Lecture Theatre\, New Museums Site
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