The name of consciousness-science?

[rune]

I remember a few years ago I read about a new kind of mind science that was just starting, they had a guest-lecture at my university I think, but I can't remember what they called the new discipline.
It was described as a new science discipline aiming at getting a better understanding for the physical basis of consciousness, or something like that.

Anyone know the name I'm looking for?

 

[neurocomp2003]

computational neuroscience? connectionism? Cognitive science

 

[Moonbear]

Cognitive neuroscience, perhaps? It's a fairly vague description you've offered, so that's the best guess I can offer.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Sounds like cognitive science. As a term, I think it has been around since the 1970's, so it is fairly "new". It is a very broad area of study, concerned with mental representations and processes not only as they exist in humans, but also in animals, and possibly machines.

Who was the lecturer?