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ZKM_Events 10|2005  mental engineering. from the pictures of our
imagination to brain research  Symposium as part of the
\\international\media\prize 2005 for science and art  Sun
10/30/2005, 11am-7pm ZKM-Media Theatre Admission free  [=>
Information auf Deutsch]  Interest in brain research is nothing
new, but the subject has never been as popular as it is today.
This has a lot to do with imaging methods, such as magnetic
resonance tomography and the electroencephalogram, which make it
possible to carry out experiments on the living brain that would
have been inconceivable in the past. These methods have raised
hopes that the brain can be completely decoded, understood and
copied. However, there can be no ignoring the suspicion that we
form our representative images from our mental images. The
mental engineering symposium will examine the question of what
functions, connections and networks in the brain can be
portrayed by neurological research and what e