Connectionists: Call for Papers -- Academy for Neuroscience and Architecture (of the Built Environment).

[Michael Arbib]

_*Please post:*_

*ANFA 2016: *Neuroscience for Architecture. Abstracts Deadline March 15, 
2016.

* You are invited to submit an abstract *
to the 2016 international meeting of the Academy of Neuroscience for 
Architecture, ANFA 2016

_http://www.anfarch.org/activities/anfa-2016-connections-bridgesynapses/
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which will be held at the Salk Institute in La Jolla California, 
September 22-24, 2016.

Possible themes for presentations include but are not limited to the 
following:

  * Neuromorphic architecture: the use of brain operating principles to
    enhance the intelligence of the built environment
  * Learning from animal research: key findings, translational research,
    research-based architectural applications.
  * The neurological impacts of perception of architectural spaces
    (vision, hearing, touch, etc.)
  * The role of action and interaction in the user’s experience of buildings
  * Smart furniture and smart buildings as empathic robots
  * The relationship between spaces and memory: wayfinding and exploration
  * Emotion, empathy and neuroesthetics in the built environment
  * The neuroscientific connection to enhancing particular building
    types such as: Alzheimer’s facilities, correctional facilities,
    laboratories, hospitals, schools, homes, and spiritual spaces

The call for papers is here:
http://www.anfarch.org/news/p1384/

*It is not too late to submit –**the deadline has been extended to March 15.
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The meeting will feature three keynote speakers:

Eric Kandel, Nobel prize winner for his work on the neuroscience of 
learning and memory, will build on the themes of his brilliant book /The 
Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, 
and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present./

Steven Holl 
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.stevenholl.com_&d=CwMGaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=eXy5m4nigBlFAqbXY1naTA&m=-R2GbEtfeT28lVzKjgWd-EPEctfOLuEm4grakLzBma4&s=_O3sPqsrOptRS-f3JH9z1_2eSKhxD--XfipCVfCnEcw&e=>, 
New York based American Architect, watercolorist, and winner ofthe 2014 
AIA Gold medal will share the ideas that infuse his structures that 
masterfully blend space and light with a unique contextual awareness.

Thomas R. Fisher, director of the Metropolitan Design Center at the 
University of Minnesota will extend insights from his seminal book /In 
the Scheme of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture/.

-- 
Michael A. Arbib
University Professor; Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology
Director of the ABLE Project: Action, Brain, Language & Evolution
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA
Phone (213) 740-9220; Fax (213) 740 7877; Emailarbib at usc.edu
http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=16  

Vice-President, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture:www.anfarch.org

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