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MILAN, Sept. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Fondazione Prada presents the online project "Human Brains: Conversations," the

second phase of the multidisciplinary program "Human Brains" dedicated to brain

studies. "Conversations" will take place from September 2021 to April 2022 and

will be available on the humanbrains.fondazioneprada.org website and on

Fondazione Prada's YouTube channel. The online project consists of 7 pairs of

video lectures by international scientists, philosophers and researchers

followed by 7 live streaming conversations that will include interaction with

the remote audience.

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"Human Brains" is the result of a complex research conducted by Fondazione

Prada in collaboration with a scientific board chaired by neurologist Giancarlo

Comi and composed of researchers, physicians, psychologists, linguists,

philosophers, popularizers and curators, such as Jubin Abutalebi, Massimo

Cacciari, Viviana Kasam, Udo Kittelmann, Letizia Leocani, Andrea Moro and

Daniela Perani. This project on science is a true challenge for a cultural

institution like Fondazione Prada. The dialogue embodied by "Human Brains"

underlines the importance of cooperation in order to give value and disseminate

meaningful studies and practices for our present.

"Conversations" is an innovative format for in-depth analysis, communication

and popularization addressed to a heterogeneous and international public

composed of students, researchers, and people of all ages and backgrounds

interested in neurosciences and brain studies in general.

Each conversation will consist of a 40-minute online debate in which two

prestigious researchers will dialogue with each other via live streaming on a

specific topic, coordinated by a moderator. Anatomist, author and broadcaster

Alice Roberts will take up the role for the first 6 events.

"Human Brains: Conversations" programme includes the following appointments:

1. Syntax as the Fingerprint of Human Language

Angela D. Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain

Sciences, Leipzig) and Robert C. Berwick (MIT – Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, Cambridge, MA)

Live: 30.09.2021, 7 pm (CEST)

2. Hemispheric Lateralization and Attentional Mechanisms

Guido Gainotti (Policlinico Gemelli, Universita Cattolica, Rome) and Paolo

Bartolomeo (ICM – Paris Brain Institute, Hopital Pitie-Salpetrière, Paris)

Live: 21.10.2021, 7 pm (CEST)

3. Advantages/Disadvantages of Having a Bilingual Brain

Ellen Bialystok (York University of Toronto, CAN) and Jason Rothman (UiT -

University of Tromso, Norway)

Live: 25.11.2021, 7 pm (CET)

4. Language, Music and the Brain

Steve Mithen (University of Reading, UK) and Stefan Koelsch (University of

Bergen, Norway)

Live: 27.01.2022, 7 pm (CET)

5. Enhancing Brain Plasticity with Neuromodulation

Jeffrey Kleim (University of Arizona, USA) and Álvaro Pascual-Leone (Harvard

Medical School, Boston; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Live: 17.02.2022, 7 pm (CET)

6. Relationship Between Science, Biological Evolution and Philosophy

Simona Ginsburg (Open University of Israel) and Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv

University)

Live: 24 March 2022, 7 pm (CET)

7. History of Modern Philosophy

Massimo Cacciari (Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan) and Michele Di

Francesco (IUSS – Scuola Universitaria Superiore di Pavia)

Live: 14 April 2022, 7 pm (CEST)

SOURCE  Fondazione Prada