Workshop: NTU-CHC Human Cognition

As we advance the sciences and engineering, we understand more and more of the world around us. However, a final frontier stands before us: we ourselves. Social and economic complexity stems from our cognitive capacities and interactions, and therefore we cannot build a better world for human beings until we understand more of this aspect of our being. In the Nanyang Technological University, many cores of research excellence in neuroscience and cognitive science exist. We hope to bring all of these research under the umbrella of a single research, in hope that the different existing research themes would collide and yield sparks that would ignite far grander explorations into the human mind. To build up such a university-wide institute, we aim to leverage on the existing internal expertise, as well as tap on an international network of research partners. This workshop, where we formalise the partnership with the Keio University-RIKEN Center for Human Cognition, represents an important first step forward.