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The Minerva Foundation is a US-based non-profit, scientific and charitable foundation. It is headquartered in Berkeley, California. It works to promote research in neuroscience, specifically on original and challenging approaches to the study of the visual brain. It was established in 1983 by Helen and Elwin Marg. Other than the founders, directors include Richard M. Buxbaum, Lawrence W. Stark, Semir Zeki, Tamia Marg Anderson and Lila S. Crutchfield. The foundation was named after Minerva, the Roman goddess of, among other things, wisdom and medicine. ==Focus== Minerva Foundation is exclusively for fostering research in neuroscience, and has three major activities,〔 namely # The Golden Brain Award which is awarded every year since 1985 to a neuroscientist for original discovery of significant findings of vision and the brain. Scientists are nominated by past laureates. Award distributions are held at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. #The International Conference on Neuroesthetics is a gathering of cross-disciplinary scholars to speak to a particular theme related to neuroesthetics. #The Minerva House Visiting Scholar Residency Program provides an opportunity for retreat as well as exchange in a gracious house in north Berkeley close to the University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minerva Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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