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From: Ralph Merkle <>
Subject: Christof Koch on The Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of Consciousness
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:40:32 PST

PARC Forum
Thursday, April 4, 1996
4:00 p.m., PARC Auditorium
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto CA 94304


      The Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of Consciousness 

		         Christof Koch
	  Professor of Computation and Neural Systems
               California Institute of Technology


   What is the relationship between the experience of visual perception
and the underlying neuronal activity in the visual system?  Dr. Francis
Crick and I propose that the function of visual awareness is to produce
an interpretation of the visual scene and to make it available, for a
sufficient time, to the parts of the brain that contemplate, plan and
execute voluntary motor outputs.  This suggest that the neurons that
express the neural correlate of consciousness must project from visual
cortices to the frontal lobe.  I will discuss electrophysiological,
clinical and psychophysical evidence for this hypothesis.   Finally, I
will discuss the implications that such a strategy has for designing
machine architectures that express some degree of awareness.


This Forum is OPEN to the public. 

Refreshments will be served from 3:45 - 4:00 p.m.

Requests for videotapes of this Forum (Xerox personnel only) 
should be addressed to Susie Mulhern, :com.

Host:  Eric Saund, (415) 812-4474, 

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The PARC Auditorium is located at 3333 Coyote Hill Road in Palo Alto. 
**From the 280 Freeway, exit east on Page Mill Rd. Turn right on 
Coyote Hill Rd.  PARC is the first building on the left.
**From the 101 Freeway, exit west on the Oregon Expressway.  This 
becomes Page Mill Rd. where it crosses El Camino Real in Palo Alto.
>From Page Mill Rd., turn left (south) on Foothill Expressway, then 
right (west) on Hillview Ave.  Coming up Hillview Ave., PARC is the 
second driveway on the right.
The PARC auditorium entrance is down the stairs to the left of the 
main entrance.


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