Penelope Lewis Senior Lecturer of Neuroscience, University of Manchester Penelope A. Lewis is a neuroscientist at the University of Manchester, where she runs the Neuroscience and Psychology of Sleep (NaPS) lab. Her research specifically investigates the role of sleep in strengthening and altering memories – and ways we can use this to our advantage. She is the author of The Secret World of Sleep, which has sold >10K copies and been translated into Japanese and Chinese. She recently gave a TEDx talk on sleep engineering which was viewed ~10K x in the first two months online. She has also written for popular science publications, including New Scientist, Scientific American, and BBC Focus, and was interviewed on NPR’s “Fresh Air”. Her research has been featured on the BBC, and she’s received funding from top institutes, including a number of UK research councils as well as the Wellcome Trust and Unilever. Participant In: Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics Through 2015 Past Event The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality; The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The… read more » Speak, Memory Saturday, November 7, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Over the last thirty years, significant progress has been made in our understanding of the various types of memory, the neural processes of consolidation and reconsolidation, and the biochemistry of memory, as well as the malleability and limits of autobiographical memory. How might continued research help us identify the importance of memory in normal development,… read more »
Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics Through 2015 Past Event The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality; The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The… read more »
Speak, Memory Saturday, November 7, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Over the last thirty years, significant progress has been made in our understanding of the various types of memory, the neural processes of consolidation and reconsolidation, and the biochemistry of memory, as well as the malleability and limits of autobiographical memory. How might continued research help us identify the importance of memory in normal development,… read more »