Events
| Mar 24, 2016
The Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat) will hold the workshop “High-Performance Computing, Stochastic Modeling and Databases in Neuroscience” in São Paulo, from April 24 to 29, 2016. NeuroMat is hosted by the University of São Paulo and funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). The event's official website is: neuromat.numec.prp.usp.br/hpcneuro.
Rodrigo Pavão, Joice P. Savietto, João R. Sato, Gilberto F. Xavier, André F. Helene
Petar Tomov; Rodrigo F. Pena; Antonio C. Roque; Michael A. Zaks
K. Yaginuma
Will the penalty taker shoot for the right, left or center of the football goal? Professional goalkeepers know that they must take into consideration as much information as possible to prevent the score: the history of the rival player, the position of the taker before contact, and so on. By doing so, goalkeepers are in fact generating a model to improve their prediction about how to stop the hit, though they might not even realize the cognitive process at play. This general idea —that one could call the Goalkeeper’s Dilemma— is potentially the basis of a renewed contribution to the understanding of brain functioning, at least according to members of an ongoing research project at FAPESP’s Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat).
