We invite you to attend Dr. Chi-Ming Chen's tenure talk as part of the psychology colloquium next Wednesday, September 18th at 3:30 pm in BOUS A106.
Title: One Theory to Rule Them All: An over-arching theory of human brain energy consumption in goal-related behaviors
Abstract
The work-in-progress theory explains how an average human brain consumes energy efficiently to achieve a goal without processing all stimuli from the external environment. It focuses on postnatal brains of 2 year-olds and up. There are related fundamental theories; however, none of them could directly explain the complexity of neuronal oscillations. The present theory has several assumptions and introduces two new hypothetical terms, internally-built module (IBM) and externally-fed module (EFM). The talk presents some schematic patterns of neuronal oscillations to explain the two new modules; furthermore, one of the early-developed IBM and EFM pairs, the environmental orientation, is discussed.
The remaining colloquium scheduled is listed below. All talks will take place in BOUS A106 at 3:30 pm on Wednesday’s unless otherwise noted.
September 25, 2019
Dr. Nicole Landi, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
Title: TBA
March 4, 2020
Dr. Vic Ferreira, Department of Psychology, UC San Diego.
Title: TBA
March 25, 2020
Dr. Robert Astur, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
Title: TBA
April 8, 2020
Dr. Inge-Marie Eigsti, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
Title: TBA
April 15, 2020
Dr. Ian Stevenson, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
Title: TBA
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For more information, contact: Shu Jiang at shu.2.jiang@uconn.edu