PSYCH 555 B Au 23: Seminar In Cognition/Perception

SEMINAR IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE

FALL QUARTER WED 11-11.50am

The focus will be on human neuroscience technologies and how they can be used to answer questions in neuroscience, with the hope of bringing together both basic and clinical human neuroscientists. The class will be in person and Zoom.

In Fall 2023 we will focus on Learning and Plasticity, and we will explore it for the entire quarter ...

The plan is to choose papers on that topic (spanning basic and clinical science) that use a variety of human neuroscience methodologies (e.g. EEG, MEG, MR imaging) in interesting ways. We'll discuss the methodologies in depth, including how the experimental design is matched to the experimental question. This will allow us to discuss how these different methodologies allow us to link neuroscience to human behavior in different ways.

If you are interested fill in the quick form here.

Provisional Speaker Schedule

Sept 27 (ZOOM). Brief introductory meeting. Should only be 15 min but please try to attend.

October 4th (ZOOM) Ella Striem-Amit Evidence for an effector-independent action system from people born without hands. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020

October 11th (ZOOM) Matt Dye, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, USA

Perceptual optimization of language: Evidence from American Sign Language Cognition, 2022

October 18th (ZOOM) Keith Schneider, University of Delaware

Dyslexia linked to profound impairment in the magnocellular medial geniculate nucleus, Biorxiv 2023

October 25th (In person) Ezgi Yucel practices her thesis defense!

Nov 1 (In Person) Society for Neuroscience: What's the latest? A review of abstracts that look cool at SFN

Nov 8  (ZOOM) David Weissman, Harvard University

State-level macro-economic factors moderate the association of low income with brain structure and mental health in U.S. children.  Nature Communications 2023

Nov 15 No Class (Society for Neuroscience)

Nov 22 No Class (Thanksgiving)

Nov 29 (ZOOM) Paola Binda, University of Pisa

Active vision gates ocular dominance plasticity in human adults. Current Biology, In Press

Course requirements

• All students should read the paper(s) before the paper discussion
  
• The day before the journal club all PARTICIPANTS will be expected to post one question/discussion comment/refection  about the paper - this should be submitted as an assignment on Canvas on Monday. Extra kudos for questions about methodology.
  
• Each week one student will act as discussion leader (this is generally pretty minimal)
  

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COMING SOON .... CONFIRMED SPEAKERS FOR NEXT QUARTER (DATES TBD)

Lofti Merabet LB. Harvard

Steve Engel, Minnesota

Berkeley Fahrenthold, UR