Workshop
Mini-workshop on Speech Learning and Neural Responses
May 23, 2019
Visiting speaker Dr. Bharath Chandrasekaran (University of Pittsburgh) will act as a discussant for this workshop, which will include short presentations by the following CRBLM members and students: Read More
Lecture
Bharath Chandrasekaran (University of Pittsburgh)
May 24, 2019
Title: Neurobiological constraints on speech learning in adulthood
My program of research uses a systems neuroscience approach to study the computations, maturational constraints, and plasticity underlying speech perception. Speech signals are multidimensional, acoustically variable, and temporally ephemeral. A significant computational challenge in speech perception (and more broadly, audition) is categorization, that is, mapping continuous, multidimensional, and variable acoustic signals into discrete, behavioral equivalence classes. Read More
Workshop
Improv for Scientists – workshop series
June 05, 2019
Improvisational comedy, while seemingly a medium for entertainment, has elements that can improve the practice of science. In improv, you learn to be spontaneous, to embrace failure, to effectively tell stories, to be a better listener and to learn how to read and respond to any audience. Because science is collaborative, the same elements that make a good improv scene can translate into better science communication. In this workshop series, we will introduce the fundamentals of improv through a series of guided group and partner exercises and directly link each fundamental element of improv to its application in the practice and communication of science. Read More
Workshop
Conditional Signal Routing in Bilingualism: Using Network-level Computational Models to Explore Bilingual Brains
June 10, 2019
Our combined program of research has leveraged network-level analyses to study complex cognitive abilities broadly, and bilingualism more specifically. In this workshop, we will move from theory to analysis techniques, describing how we have explored the relationship between basal ganglia signal routing and the implications of bilingual language use on mind and brain. Read More
Lecture
Andrea Stocco (University of Washington, Seattle)
June 11, 2019
Title: Dynamic Causal Modeling Analysis of Flexible Behaviors in Monolinguals and Bilinguals
The fact that bilingualism places unique demands on cognitive control networks, particularly those that enable flexible behavior, is relatively uncontroversial. In the current talk, I will summarize research using Dynamic Causal Modeling to investigate whether these demands have broader implications for shaping bilingual brain functioning. Read More
Lecture
Chantel Prat (University of Washington, Seattle)
June 11, 2019
Title: Resting-State Connectivity and Bilingual Language Experience
My research has consistently focused on how variability in brain functioning relates to individual differences in complex abilities, with a focus on network-level functioning. Recently, my work has shifted from investigating task-based patterns of activation to task-free measures of connectivity. In this talk, I will discuss two lines of research linking individual differences in patterns of resting-state connectivity to bilingual language experience. Read More
Workshop
TMS workshop with Kate Watkins
May 15, 2019
Title: Stimulating speech: Auditory-motor interactions in production and perception
In my lab, we use non-invasive brain stimulation to explore auditory-motor interactions during speech perception and speech production. I will describe how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) works and provide a number of examples of how we have used this method in combination with behaviour and other measures of brain function. Read More
Lecture
Sara Incera (Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University)
May 21, 2019
Title: The timing of the cognitive processes underlying bilingualism and the perception of foreign accents: Evidence from mouse tracking
The mouse-tracking paradigm allows researchers to better understand how cognitive processes unfold over time by recording participants’ responses using a computer mouse. In this talk, I will present a diverse set of cognitive experiments in which I used the mouse-tracking paradigm for data collection. Read More
Workshop
Mouse-tracking workshop with Sara Incera
May 22, 2019
Title: Creating and analyzing mouse-tracking experiments
The goal of this four-hour workshop is to create and analyze mouse-tracking experiments. During the first half of the workshop, participants will become familiar with the computer software MouseTracker (download here – only works on Windows os). Read More