Dec. 2, 2008
L&S lecture series continues with talk
on the human mind and brain in life
What is the nature of the mind-brain relationship? This is
the crux of a lecture to be presented by Padmanabhan Sudevan,
professor and chair of psychology, at the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Sudevan will discuss “Mind and Brain in Life,” as part of the
College of Letters and Science 2008-09 lecture series. His
lecture is free and open to the community at 7 p.m. on Thursday,
December 11, in the Pinery Room at the Portage County Library in
Stevens Point.
“The relationship between mind and brain and the ramifications of
that relationship are central to a host of psychological, medical,
judicial, and ethical questions that arise in a variety of contexts
in our daily lives,” said Sudevan. “My lecture will delve into this
relationship, a relationship on how the brain enables the mind,
with a special focus on basic cognitive processes in attention and
memory.” In addition, he will discuss some of the most important
applications of the mind-brain relationship in real life, including
free choice, legal responsibility and medical treatment.
A native of India and now a citizen of the United States, Sudevan
is an expert in cognitive psychology and neuroscience with areas of
research in human attention and memory. He joined the faculty in
1983 and oversees the Cognition Laboratory and the Beck Psychophysiology
Laboratory at UWSP. He served two terms as chair of Faculty Senate.
Sudevan has been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
He also has been a visiting scientist in the Cognitive Neuroscience
Group at the Beckman Institute of the University of
Illinois.
Sudevan holds degrees from the University of Kerala, Trivandrum,
India, and the University of Rochester in New York.
