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Integrating neuroscience with information science, neuroinformatics explores how the brain generates and processes information, and conceives of new ways to synthesize data on the brain to foster discovery across disciplines. Melding information science's cross-disciplinary approach to data collection and communication with contemporary discoveries in neuroscience allows researchers, artists, and other creative thinkers to re-imagine the workings of the human brain based on novel syntheses of information from many fields of inquiry.
How does the brain generate and process the information that characterizes conscious and unconscious human thought? Can this information be accessed by technology to empower the handicapped, whose limbs may no longer successfully process active brain signals? Might it allow us to communicate more fully and deeply than ever before? These are just some of the questions addressed by neuroscience and information science researchers innovating in this field today.
Such questions also propel the creative work of many contemporary artists and designers, from architect Francois Roche's upcoming project exploring how architecture may evolve with ever more precise understanding of the human mind, to artist Shilpa Gupta and social psychologist and ArtScience Jury member Mahzarin Banaji's investigations of unconscious prejudice at Le Laboratoire. Sparking discussion of the role of imagination and cognition in society and the creative process, the theme of neuroinformatics will provide teen artists and scientists with a gateway to contemporary multi-disciplinary research and discovery.
