The Brain
In 2011/2012, TU Delft Library will be organising a range of activities focusing on the theme of ‘The Brain’.
Did you know that your brain is not fully developed until you reach the age of 25? This means that your brain is still undergoing major development while you are studying! Does this mean that intelligence isn’t an immutable fact? Well, no, it isn’t… it has been discovered that if you know more about the way the brain works when you are learning, this increases your motivation to learn and improves the results. In other words, knowledge about the brain increases both your performance and your enjoyment when learning.
Hot Topic
One question that is currently the focus of major interest is: “Are we our brain”? Recent publications appear to confirm this and predict that – in the wake of Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Crick/DNA – this discovery will herald the start of the fifth revolution and a paradigm shift. Knowledge about the brain is currently a hot topic and is expected to lead to significant breakthroughs in the decades to come.
Brain research also being conducted at TU Delft
Interestingly, fundamental research into the way the brain functions is increasingly becoming more precise and physical in character. Various disciplines at TU Delft are now substantially engaged in brain research; examples include nanophysics and nanotechnology, biotechnology, biomaterials research, fluid and gas dynamics, radiation physics, static physics, sensory physics, neuronal biophysics, large-scale data analysis, modelling and computer simulations, imaging and image analysis, ethics.
The use of the mechanisms being discovered in these areas will have a major impact on numerous applications across society, including image recognition, learning systems, robotics, neuronal computers, cognitive research, communication systems, new food for the brain, human/machine interfaces, Video-Google and voice recognition.
Source: Brain Visions; how the brain sciences could change the way we eat, communicate, learn and judge by Ira van Keulen, commissioned by STT (Stichting Toekomstverkenningen van de Techniek), 2008
TU Delft Library & the brain
A number of the key activities in which TU Delft Library is involved concern direct interaction with the brain, including information skills and information processing, data processing, image processing techniques, data visualisation, reading styles and learning systems.
This means that in the future, users and visitors of TU Delft Library will increasingly come face-to-face with rapidly developing new discoveries in brain research. It is time to take a closer look!
