UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM presents "The influence of the olfactory system on the algorithmic structure of mammalian cerebral cortex: From dynamics to object recognition, learning and memory" Prof. James Bower (South Oregon University and University of Hertfordshire) 25 May 2022 (Wednesday) 13:00 -14:00 Everyone is Welcome to Attend (over Zoom) Abstract: Over the past few years, it has become clear that oscillatory dynamics of cortical networks are closely involved in sensory coding, attention, memory and sleep. Several years ago (Fontanini and Bower, (2006) Trends in Neuroscience, Vol 29, 429), we proposed that the oscillatory properties of the more studied mammalian neocortex, might have actually been established through the emergence of mammalian Neo-cortex from the much older olfactory archi-cortex. This talk will lay the evolutionary foundation for this assertion and consider its implications from a computational point of view. --------------------------------------------------- Hertfordshire Computer Science Research Colloquium http://cs-colloq.cs.herts.ac.uk