May 20, 2020

Free Webinar ~The Neuroscience of Walkability with America Walks

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America Walks is hosting a new webinar,  In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration – a conversation with author and neuroscientist Shane O’Mara.

Author Shane O’Mara has just released  ‘In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration’. As a neuroscientist and walking advocate, O’Mara takes us on an evolutionary journey through how we started walking, the magical mechanics of it, and how we find our way around the world. It also explores walking in relation to repairing our mental and social health, sparking creativity, and how walking in concert can be coupled with critical policy change.

This one-on-one webinar is sure to inform your walking and walkability work and ethos, and we have built in ample time for questions and answers. This webinar is intended for those just starting out on the walking path as well as those interested in learning more about the topic.

Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research (Personal Chair) at Trinity College, Dublin – the University of Dublin. He is a Principal Investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and is also a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. His research explores the brain systems supporting learning, memory, and cognition, and also the brain systems affected by stress and depression, and he has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers in these areas.
He is a graduate of the National University of Ireland – Galway, and of the University of Oxford (DPhil). Heis an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (USA), and an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Webinar Date/Time: June 3rd, 2020

Time: 10 a.m. Pacific Time

REGISTER HERE at this link.

You can learn more about America Walks and this webinar here.

 

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  1. I met Shane O’Mara last year in London, heard him speak and then read his book. He’s a gifted, amusing, good natured speaker and his work raises interesting questions about how our current forms of transportation make use of — or don’t make use of — the 13 or so senses we have that researchers have identified. I particularly enjoyed his work on geolocation in rats where he found brain cells that fired only when the animal turned left, allowing the rat to orient in space. Similarly interesting was the mapping of people walking across featureless landscapes who end up in the right place having unconsciously turned several circles to get there, possibly to re-orient in space. Well worth knowing his work.

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