[CTN] CTN Seminar: Mariam Aly (Columbia): 3:30 Tuesday Nov 7, PAS 2464

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder about the talk tomorrow (Tuesday).

As usual, graduate students are invited to lunch. Please meet in PAS 2464
at 11:30. Peter Duggins is organizing lunch this time.

Bryan


On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please join us next week for a talk by Professor Mariam Aly of Columbia
> University. The title and abstract follow.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan
>
>
> Perception and attention in memory systems
>
> Research in cognitive neuroscience has traditionally progressed by
> studying different components of cognition largely in isolation. But,
> ultimately, complex behavior is the result of the interplay between
> multiple aspects of cognition at the behavioral and the neural levels. With
> a combination of behavioral, neuroimaging (fMRI) and patient studies, I’ll
> argue that the computations performed by brain regions allow them to
> critically and flexibly support many different aspects of cognition, from
> attention to perception to long-term memory. In the first part of my talk,
> I’ll show that at a behavioral level, perception shares functional
> commonalities with long-term memory, and traditional memory systems of the
> brain play a critical role in perception. In the second part of my talk,
> I’ll show that attention modulates these “memory systems”, and that this
> modulation has consequences for attentional and mnemonic behavior.
> Together, my research points to the utility of understanding the brain and
> behavior by thinking about the mechanisms that allow any given brain region
> to flexibly contribute to diverse aspects of cognition.
>
>
>
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