Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe invite you to this free Royal Institution talk titled "The Spike: an epic journey through the brain in 2.1 seconds"

ADVANCE BOOKING IS REQUIRED FOR THIS TALK.

Please register for the event via this link: 

https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2021/march/public-the-spike

We will have the replay of the video available for 72 hours after the event for those of you that can’t make the date. It will also be uploaded to YouTube in the future.

SUMMARY

In the 2.1 seconds that an impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another. Blips of voltage are sent through our sensory and motor regions. Neuroscientists call these blips ‘spikes’.

Join Mark Humphries as he draws on decades of research in neuroscience, exploring how spikes are born, how they are transmitted, how they lead us to action and the mysteries that still surround them.

Discover in this talk how a single electrical response illuminates how our extraordinary brains work.

SPEAKER:

Mark Humphries is Chair in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham.

Mark is a systems neuroscientist who happens to use computational and statistical models rather than animal models to study the brain. His research interrogates how the joint activity of many neurons encodes the past, present, and future in order to guide behaviour.

He is the founding editor of The Spike, a Medium online publication. He lives in Sheffield, England.

Mark's book, 'The Spike: an epic journey through the brain in 2.1 seconds' is available from 9 March. 

If you have any issues with your registration, please contact the RI at richannel@ri.ac.uk.