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Michael Arbib, PhD is a University Professor, Professor of Neuroscience and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. The scope of his career was defined in the title of his first book Brains, Machines, and Mathematics. The ANFA talk turns from mathematics to buildings, seeking to understand the implications for architecture of his work on computational modeling of brain mechanisms and mirror neurons, relating vision to action, emotion and language.
Michael Arbib, PhD is a University Professor, Professor of Neuroscience and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. The scope of his career was defined in the title of his first book Brains, Machines, and Mathematics. The ANFA talk turns from mathematics to buildings, seeking to understand the implications for architecture of his work on computational modeling of brain mechanisms and mirror neurons, relating vision to action, emotion and language.










