BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250708T203605EDT-0850PNGBDD@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250709T003605Z DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nick Turke-Browne will present. \n\nRegistration via Eventb rite.\n\nLivestreaming via Vimeo. \n\nSpeaker: Nick Turke-Brown\, Ph.D.\n \nProfessor of Psychology and Director of Wu Tsai Institute\, Yale Univers ity\, USA\n\nAbstract: Adult cognitive neuroscience provides a rich accoun t of how different brain systems give rise to diverse forms of learning an d memory. However\, these theories often neglect the greatest period of le arning in life\, during early development. A key challenge for studying th is age range is the limited set of behavioral tasks and measures available . Neuroscientific techniques such as EEG and fNIRS provide another window into the infant mind\, but have limited spatial resolution and lack access to deep-brain structures important for adult learning and memory. I will present our recent efforts to adapt fMRI\, which helps address these limit ations\, for studying human infants during cognitive tasks. I will describ e one of our awake infant fMRI studies in detail\, addressing a mystery ab out how the brain supports statistical learning. We have shown in adults t hat the hippocampus is important for statistical learning\, and statistica l learning is a core building block of the infant mind\, yet the hippocamp us of infants is assumed to be immature (e.g.\, to explain infantile amnes ia). This and our other fMRI studies in awake infants aim to advance under standing of the functions and plasticity of the youngest minds and brains. \n\nBio: Different cognitive processes like perception\, attention\, learn ing\, and memory – and the underlying brain systems that support them – ar e often studied in isolation. This is productive and necessary\, but my la b takes the complementary perspective of trying to understand how these sy stems interact. The hope is that this will help elucidate the constraints and functions of individual systems and also help produce a more integrate d understanding of mind and brain. We use a variety of techniques\, includ ing psychophysical experiments to characterize behaviors of interest\, fun ctional magnetic resonance imaging to explore the underlying circuits and representations\, case studies of patients with brain damage to provide co nverging evidence\, and computational approaches (machine learning\, graph theory\, neural networks\, real-time analysis) to formalize theories and generate quantitative predictions. As an example\, we have worked extensiv ely on ‘statistical learning’\, the process by which humans extract regula rities from sensory input. High-resolution imaging revealed that subfields of the hippocampus – typically linked to the encoding of discrete experie nces – play an important role in such learning of commonalities across exp eriences\, and computational modeling provided a theoretical explanation o f the mechanism. We study a variety of other topics as well\, including pr edictive coding\, memory-guided attention\, and\, most recently\, the deve lopment of brain function in infants and toddlers.\n\nThe Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind (VBM) Seminar Series will advance the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918–2014)\, Former Director of the Neuro (1972–1984)\, to const antly bridge the clinical and research realms. The talks will highlight th e latest advances and discoveries in neuropsychology\, cognitive neuroscie nce\, and neuroimaging.\n\nSpeakers will include scientists from across Th e Neuro\, as well as colleagues and collaborators locally and from around the world. The series is intended to provide a virtual forum for scientist s and trainees to continue to foster interdisciplinary exchanges on the me chanisms\, diagnosis and treatment of brain and cognitive disorders.\n DTSTART:20210407T200000Z DTEND:20210407T210000Z SUMMARY:Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind Lecture Series: Cognitive neuroscien ce of learning and memory in infants URL:/neuro/channels/event/feindel-virtual-brain-and-mi nd-lecture-series-cognitive-neuroscience-learning-and-memory-infants-33022 8 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR