Jacqueline Gottlieb Jacqueline Gottlieb is Professor of Neuroscience in the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Institute for Mind Brain and Behavior at Columbia University. She completed her education at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Yale University and the National Institute of Health, and she joined the Columbia Faculty in 2001. Dr Gottlieb is an internationally renowned expert on the neural mechanisms of attention and decision making, and the recipient of numerous awards including the McKnight Scholarship, Klingenstein Fellowship, and Human Frontiers research grants. Her work pioneers the study of active information sampling and curiosity, which she investigates using behavioral, computational and neurophysiological methods. A central goal of her research is to understand cognition as an adaptive process, whereby the brain dynamically allocates its resources to best serve the demands of a decision situation. Participant In: Boredom 2:30pm to 4:30pm, Saturday, April 21st, 2018 Past Event Watch the video » Schopenhauer described boredom as “a tame longing without any particular object,” Dostoevsky as “ a bestial and indefinable affliction,” and poet Joseph Brodsky as “time’s invasion of your world system.” Unsurprisingly, not many can describe boredom even though most have felt it, and it is one of the central preoccupations of the age. The most… read more »
Boredom 2:30pm to 4:30pm, Saturday, April 21st, 2018 Past Event Watch the video » Schopenhauer described boredom as “a tame longing without any particular object,” Dostoevsky as “ a bestial and indefinable affliction,” and poet Joseph Brodsky as “time’s invasion of your world system.” Unsurprisingly, not many can describe boredom even though most have felt it, and it is one of the central preoccupations of the age. The most… read more »