MindBrainBody Lectures

The MindBrainBody Lectures take place on Mondays every 3-4 weeks virtually. The access link and details about the lectures will be given shortly before the date of the lecture. Everyone is invited to join virtually!

Upcoming MindBrainBody Lecture:

 

We would like to invite you to our MindBrainBody Lecture once per month.
 

Friday, May 19th 2023,  01:00pm (GMT+1)
 
Lecture Hall (C101) + Zoom Meeting   https://zoom.us/j/94574442994
 
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK.
 

Title:
Somatosensory Qualities: Blix, Müller and beyond

Abstract:

This talk focusses on simple skin sensations such as temperature and touch, but aims to address foundational questions about perception. Why are sensations so qualitatively different from each other, given that they all rely on a common code of action potentials reaching the CNS? ‘Labelled line’ theories explain sensory quality in terms of a ‘label’ carried by the originating receptor and nerve. This powerful idea of neural specificity has become a textbook dogma, but it is not easy to test. I will report two testing attempts. The first study investigates the quality of microsensations generated at sensitive spots in the human skin. The second study uses suprathreshold stimuli and compares thermal detection ("I felt a stimulus") to thermal discrimination ("It was warm/cold"). This allows to investigate whether detection of a thermal stimulus necessarily causes a percept of its sensory quality, as labelled line theories imply. I will suggest that warmth and cold indeed function as labelled lines from the human skin, despite surprising levels of "quality noise" in sensory perception. The implications of specific signalling and quality noise for the hard problem of consciousness are considered.

 

 

 

 
Friday, June 2th 2023,  01:00pm (GMT+1)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Previous MindBrainBody Lectures

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Monday, 11.04.2022 at 11:00am

 

Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition in Grenoble,

Title:
Computational mechanisms for perceptual consciousness and monitoring

Abstract:
The neural correlates of how we experience the world perceptually remain largely unknown. I will present single neuron and computational modeling evidence suggesting that stimulus detection and related confidence involve evidence accumulation processes similar to those involved in perceptual decision-making. I will also present preliminary data supporting the involvement of subcortical regions in detection. Finally, I will argue that conscious percepts might fade in and out of consciousness according to the dynamics of evidence accumulation. I will discuss the implications and limitations of this proposal and illustrate how it may put us in a better position to reach a mechanistic understanding of phenomenal aspects of perceptual experience like its intensity and duration, beyond mere detection.

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Monday, 31.01.2022 at 11:30am

 

Daniel S. Kluger

Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignal Analysis (IBB), University of Münster

 
 
Title:

Human respiration, oscillations, and behaviour

 

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Monday, 10.01.2022 at 2:30pm

 
Damián Dellavale, PhD
Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes INS - INSERM U1106
Aix-Marseille Université - Faculté de Médecine
APHM, Épileptologie et Rythmologie Cérébrale - Hôpital de la Timone
Marseille, France
 
Title:
Cross frequency couplings in brain recordings and at the organism level
using imaging photoplethysmography

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Monday, 01.11.2021 at 11am

École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Title:
Towards a computational model of language processing in the adult human brain

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Monday , 18.10.2021 at 11am

Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience | Karolinska Institutet
 

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Monday, 26.07.2021 at 11am.

Dr. Lucie Charles

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London

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Monday, 12.07.2021 at 11:00

Francesca Fardo, PhD
Associate Professor

Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience
& Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark

Title:
Illusions in the thermo-nociceptive system

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Meeting ID: 815 6464 7279   Passcode: 093283

 

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