Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett- “Three Lessons About the Brain”

We would like to invite you to the next Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar. The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and a world-leading expert in neuroscience and the science of emotion.

Prof. Barrett’s lecture, titled “Three Lessons About the Brain,”  is scheduled for Wednesday, October 29, in the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Auditorium (building A-1, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27), starting at 1:15 PM.

Admission is free, but prior registration is required via the Evenea.pl platform. Register here.

The lecture will explore how the brain’s primary role is to regulate the body efficiently, and how it does so by predicting rather than merely reacting. This predictive regulation, Prof. Barrett argues, underlies every action and experience, including emotions, which are not fixed, universal events but flexible, context-dependent constructions shaped to fit specific situations.

The Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar is a series aimed at a wide audience – students, doctoral candidates, researchers, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge. Wrocław University of Science and Technology regularly hosts experts from various fields who are eager to share the results of their research.

ISN attendees have had the opportunity to listen to, among others, the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics – Prof. Ferenc Krausz, renowned architect and urban planner – Prof. Kees Christiaanse from ETH Zurich, world-famous cognitive science expert Prof. Peter Gärdenfors from Lund University, Prof. Szymon Malinowski – Chair of the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Climate Crisis Committee, as well as Finnish researcher Prof. Tomi Kauppinen from Aalto University, Dr. Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the creator of the psychological theory of implementation intentions Prof. Peter Gollwitzer from New York University, and Prof. Stephen Evans – Director of Research in Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge.