{"id":17717,"date":"2019-12-21T03:34:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T03:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=17717"},"modified":"2019-12-21T03:34:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T03:34:36","slug":"understanding-the-neuro-maths-connect-prof-v-s-ramachandran-shares-interesting-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=17717","title":{"rendered":"UNDERSTANDING THE NEURO-MATHS CONNECT – Prof. V. S. Ramachandran shares interesting perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UNDERSTANDING THE NEURO-MATHS CONNECT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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~ Prof. V. S. Ramachandran shares interesting perspectives ~<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chennai, December 19, 2019:<\/strong>\u00a0Loyola College\u2019s\u00a0PG & Research Department of Mathematics today hosted the 9th<\/sup>\u00a0R. P. Ranga Endowment lecture in honor of Mr. R. P. Ranga, an eminent alumnus of Department of Mathematics, who completed his Mathematics Honours degree from Loyola College between 1934 and 1939. The lecture on\u00a0\u2018Neuroscience – Mathematics connect\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>was delivered by\u00a0Prof. V. S. Ramachandran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran<\/strong>\u00a0is an alumnus of Loyola College Chennai; Stanley Medical College Chennai and Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Psychology Department and the Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition. Professor Ramachandran has authored popular books like Phantoms in the Brain (1998), The Tell-Tale Brain (2010), he has also given the BBC\u2019s Reith Memorial lectures and TED Talks on developments in Neuroscience to a variety of fields.<\/p>\n

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In his talk, Prof. Ramachandran stressed on the need for the emergence of Mathematical Neuroscience, which is beyond just computation and simulation.<\/h1>\n

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He went on to elaborate about Mathematical Neuroscience\u00a0(also known as\u00a0theoretical neuroscience\u00a0or\u00a0computational neuroscience) being a branch of\u00a0neuroscience\u00a0which employs mathematical models, theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain to understand the principles that govern the\u00a0development,\u00a0structure,\u00a0physiology\u00a0and\u00a0cognitive abilities\u00a0of the\u00a0nervous system.<\/p>\n

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He also spoke about three kinds of applications of neuroscience to mathematics education\u2026<\/h1>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Neurounderstanding\u00a0being the thought that neuroscience is creating knowledge on how people obtain mathematical skills and how this learning is reflected at the biological level<\/h1>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Neuroprediction\u00a0dealing with the potential of neuroimaging data to predict future mathematical skill attainment and response to educational interventions<\/h1>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Neurointervention\u00a0being about how brain imaging data has been used to ground interventions targeted at mathematics learning and how education shapes the neural circuitry that underlies school-taught mathematics<\/h1>\n

Present for the lecture were\u00a0Research Scholars, PG students and Professors in Mathematics from Loyola College and other city colleges.<\/h1>\n

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UNDERSTANDING THE NEURO-MATHS CONNECT \u00a0 ~ Prof. V. S. Ramachandran shares interesting perspectives ~ Chennai, December 19, 2019:\u00a0Loyola College\u2019s\u00a0PG & Research Department of Mathematics today hosted the 9th\u00a0R. P. Ranga Endowment lecture in honor of Mr. R. P. Ranga, an eminent alumnus of Department of Mathematics, who completed his Mathematics Honours degree from Loyola College […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17719,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions\/17719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}