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Neuroscience Brainstorm Meeting 10 September 2002

The above meeting was held to identify 5 or 6 themes to be explored further with a view to producing mini-summaries. (The computer science group, having met on 2 July, are already producing their mini-summaries).

Present:
Dr John Taylor DTI - OST (Chair)
Dr Roland Baddeley University of Sussex
Dr Phil Barnard MRC Cambridge
Prof Colin Blakemore University of Oxford
Prof David Cliff Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol
Prof Tony Dickinson University of Cambridge
Michael Kenward Kenward Words (Science Writer & Editorial Consultant)
Dr Simon Laughlin University of Cambridge
Prof David Lowe Aston University
Prof Ian Marshall Btexact Technologies
Dr William Marslen-Wilson MRC Cambridge
Prof Michael Morgan City University
Prof Richard Morris University of Edinburgh
Prof John O'Keefe University College London
Prof Andrew Parker University of Oxford
Prof Peter Redgrave University of Sheffield
Prof Nigel Shadbolt University of Southampton
Dr Lisa Saksida University of Cambridge
Prof Lionel Tarassenko University of Oxford
Dr Vincent Walsh University of Oxford
Prof David Willshaw University of Edinburgh
Prue Backway Foresight
Dr Bryony Butland Foresight
John Flack Foresight
Mary Lawrence Foresight
Gerard Rand Foresight
Invited but not able to attend:
Dr Tim Bliss UCL
Dr Neil Burgess UCL
Prof Peter Dayan UCL
Dr Andrew Derrington University of Nottingham
Prof David Duce Oxford Brookes University
Prof Andrew Lumsden Kings College, London
Prof David May University of Bristol
Prof Alan Murray University of Edinburgh
Prof Robert Pickard British Nutrition Foundation
Dr Wolfram Schultz University of Cambridge
Prof Tim Shallice UCL
Prof John Shawe-Taylor University of London
Prof Barry Smyth University College Dublin
Prof Karen Spärck-Jones University of Cambridge
Prof Chris Williams University of Edinburgh
Dr Daniel Wolpert UCL
Prof Andrew Zisserman University of Oxford

Themes / topics arising

Six themes were determined and will be explored further.

Summary documents on these themes, considering major developments in the field, promising areas for development, and key drivers, are being produced by six 'editors' with a view to discussing them at an interactive conference with the project's physical sciences group.

  1. learning & Memory
    Prof Richard Morris and Prof Graham Hitch
  2. language & Speech
    Dr William Marslen-Wilson
  3. social Cognition
    Prof Uta Frith
  4. self-organising Systems
    Prof David Willshaw
  5. actions / Habits
    Prof Peter Dayan
  6. representation
    Dr Vincent Walsh

Summary documents on these themes, considering major developments in the field, promising areas for development, and key drivers, are being produced by six groups of life scientists with a view to discussing them at an interactive conference with the project's computer science group.