[CTN] CTN Seminar: Stefan Köhler (Western University), 3:30 Tuesday October 6 in PAS 2464

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder about the talk tomorrow (Tuesday). Also, there are still
some spots for dinner, so please let me know if you are interested.

Bryan


On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> October's CTN seminar is quite early in October. Next Tuesday we will have
> Stefan Köhler from the Brain & Mind Institute, Western University. The
> title and abstract follow.
>
> As usual the talk is at 3:30 in PAS 2464.
>
> Please let me know if you would like to meet individually with Dr. Köhler,
> and/or join us for dinner after the talk.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan
>
> Mechanisms of familiarity assessment in humans
> The ability to consciously recognize the prior occurrence of objects,
> people, or other aspects of the environment is critical to many aspects of
> adaptive behavior. Recognition memory can succeed in the absence of
> successful recollection of episodic detail about a pertinent past stimulus
> encounter. For example, we have all been in situations in which a person we
> interact with feels familiar, but we cannot conjure up any information as
> to where or when we met her before. The process that allows for recognition
> under such circumstances is often referred to as familiarity assessment. In
> the present talk, I plan to review recent neuropsychological, neuroimaging,
> and psychophysiological research that aimed to shed light on the neural
> mechanisms that support familiarity and that shape its phenomenology. The
> work that I plan to discuss will speak to the following questions: How are
> memory representations that are tied to impressions of familiarity
> organized in the human brain? Can familiarity assessment be selectively
> affected by brain lesions? Does familiarity have an affective component?
>
>
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