EPISODE · May 16, 2017 · 55 MIN
‘The time-travelling brain’: how we remember the past and imagine the future
from Sydney Ideas · host Sydney Ideas
Associate Professor Muireann Irish, School of Psychology and Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney, gives a fascinating overview of her work exploring autobiographical memory and future thinking across various dementia syndromes. She highlights the cognitive mechanisms and neural networks that need to be functional to support these sophisticated cognitive processes and the devastating effects of losing these uniquely human functions. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 2017 Paul Bourke Lecture A Sydney Ideas event co-presented with the School of Psychology in the Faculty of Science, and the Brain and Mind Centre. Presented as part of the Sydney Ideas program on 16 May, 2017 http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/2017_paul_bourke_lecture_muirann_irish.shtml
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Associate Professor Muireann Irish, School of Psychology and Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney, gives a fascinating overview of her work exploring autobiographical memory and future thinking across various dementia syndromes. She highlights the cognitive mechanisms and neural networks that need to be functional to support these sophisticated cognitive processes and the devastating effects of losing these uniquely human functions. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 2017 Paul Bourke Lecture A Sydney Ideas event co-presented with the School of Psychology in the Faculty of Science, and the Brain and Mind Centre. Presented as part of the Sydney Ideas program on 16 May, 2017 http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/2017_paul_bourke_lecture_muirann_irish.shtml
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