Prof. Felix Blankenburg | From Tactile Perception via Working Memory to Decision Making and Action

Guest Lecture

  • Date: Sep 21, 2018
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Felix Blankenburg
  • Professor for Neurocomputation and Neuroimaging at the Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin and Scientific Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin (CCNB), Germany
  • Location: MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
  • Room: Wilhelm Wundt Room (A400)
  • Host: Department of Neurophysics
  • Contact: amuehlberg@cbs.mpg.de
Somatosensory processing from sensation, to perception, working memory, decision making and action has been extensively studied with single-cell recordings using a delayed-match-to-comparison task in monkeys (see Romo and de Lafuente 2013). In my presentation, I will give an overview about our recent empirical work which aims at characterizing the somatosensory perception-action-loop in humans using EEG, MEG and fMRI. Strikingly, our results indicate that a majority of the invasive findings can also be obtained in a similar form in humans, and thus provide a bridge between the single-cell and the neural ensemble system’s level.

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