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.
Penelope Lewis
Senior Lecturer of Neuroscience, University of Manchester
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Jan 1st
2015
Jan 1st
2015
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Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics
This series of fourteen roundtables will explore fundamental questions across the sciences and humanities, including knowledge and its limits, infinity, complexity and emergence, consciousness, memory, free will, genius, development, and the nature of human experience.
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Nov 7th
2015
Nov 7th
2015
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Speak, Memory
This roundtable will examine how advances in memory research can deepen our understanding of the role memory plays in normal development and in shaping lived experience, while also informing efforts to address memory impairment in an aging population. It will further consider how dialogue between scientific researchers and practitioners of memory can foster mutual insights into the mechanisms, limits, and cultivation of memory across contexts.