[BIC-announce] Fwd: Neuro Event: March 24, 4:00 pm - Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind Seminar: "What are the brain specializations underlying human speech and language?"

[Boris Bernhardt]

Hi BIC & FYI
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From: NeuroEvents <events.neuro at MCGILL.CA>
Date: Mar 19, 2021, 1:05 PM -0400
To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA <MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Neuro Event: March 24, 4:00 pm - Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind Seminar: "What are the brain specializations underlying human speech and language?"



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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
4:00 - 5:00PM EDT
Zoom Registration Required<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/feindel-virtual-brain-and-mind-seminar-tickets-145743826709>

Livestreaming through Vimeo<https://vimeo.com/event/269074>

Speaker: Nicole Eichert, PhD
Postdoctural Researcher, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), University of Oxford, UK
Abstract: One uniquely human experience is our ability to communicate via speech and language. Specialized laryngeal motor control has been suggested to be a critical evolutionary adaptation in the human brain that enabled speech. During my PhD, I investigated the cortical specialization underlying laryngeal motor control using functional neuroimaging and comparative neuroanatomy. We localized the cortical representation of the larynx in humans during voicing using fMRI and studied how the functional activation patterns relate to individual sulcal morphology. In order to study critical brain specializations in a comparative framework across primate species, we use a 'common space' approach that can account for both shared and distinct features across species. We developed a surface-based cross-species registration that allows us to study how cortical reorganization during evolution affected the relative location of brain areas and connectivity profiles. Using the 'common space' approach, we can test the effect of different evolutionary scenarios on the brain architecture related to laryngeal motor control.

The Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind (VBM) Seminar Series
Advancing the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918–2014), former Director of the Neuro (1972–1984) and Founding Director of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (1984), to constantly bridge the clinical and research realms. The talks will highlight the latest advances and discoveries in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging.

Speakers will include scientists from across The Neuro, as well as colleagues and collaborators locally and from around the world. The series is intended to provide a virtual forum for scientists and trainees to continue to foster interdisciplinary exchanges on the mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of brain and cognitive disorders. If you, or someone you know, would be interested in presenting please contact us to secure a spot on the schedule.

Looking forward to reconnecting!

Nathan Spreng
Boris Bernhardt
Bratislav Misic

To register: Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/feindel-virtual-brain-and-mind-seminar-tickets-145743826709>

Contact : Sasha Kelly<mailto:sasha.kelly at mcgill.ca>, Events and Conference Coordinator, The Neuro

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