Natural Sciences 191CNS55 - FYS-Your Brain is Lying to You
Fall
2017
01
1.00
Margaret Ugolini
TU 1:00PM 1:50PM
UMass Amherst
42494
Over 200,000 years of evolution has shaped your brain into a well-oiled perceptual machine, allowing you to efficiently perceive the word around you. These eons of selective pressure have modified you perception into something that is far removed from true reality. In this class we will use methods of scientific inquiry to ask how these perceptual modifications work, probing questions about how your biology determines your reality.
Open to students in the Connect CNS RAP in Knowlton Hall. Instructor Margaret Ugollini Seminar Description for CNS Connect RAP - NATSCI 191CNS55 sec 1 (Your Brain Is Lying to You)
Please see - http://www.umass.edu/rap/cns-connect-rap
Over 200,000 years of evolution has shaped your brain into a well-oiled perceptual machine, allowing you to efficiently perceive the word around you. These eons of selective pressure have modified you perception into something that is far removed from true reality. In this seminar we will use methods of scientific inquiry to ask how these perceptual modifications work, probing questions about how your biology determines your reality.
Please see - http://www.umass.edu/rap/cns-connect-rap
Over 200,000 years of evolution has shaped your brain into a well-oiled perceptual machine, allowing you to efficiently perceive the word around you. These eons of selective pressure have modified you perception into something that is far removed from true reality. In this seminar we will use methods of scientific inquiry to ask how these perceptual modifications work, probing questions about how your biology determines your reality.