[WTI-trainee] [WTI-BrainWorks] Current Works in Human Neuroscience | Invited Speaker Dr. Laura Gwilliams | Mon 5/4

[Lizzie Gao]

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to host *Dr. **Laura Gwilliams* as the invited speaker for
the Neuroscience Current Works Seminar on *Monday, May 4, at 4 pm* in *Room
180A, 100 College St*.

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*Talk Title: *Neural algorithms of human language

The goal of my research is to develop a theoretically grounded,
biologically constrained and computationally explicit account of how the
human brain achieves language comprehension. I will present a series of
studies that examine neural responses at different spatial scales: From
population ensembles using magnetoencephalography and electrocorticography,
to the encoding of speech properties in individual neurons across the
cortical depth using Neuropixels probes and microelectrode arrays in
humans. The results provide insight into (i) what auditory and linguistic
representations serve to bridge between sound and meaning; (ii) what
operations reconcile auditory input speed with neural processing time;
(iii) how information at different timescales is nested, in time and in
space, to allow information exchange across hierarchical structures.

Please join us!

If you are a postdoc or a graduate student and are interested in joining
our Trainee Lunch, please sign up here
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SbfqGH-UgT57uinNAQ4c4nQvQcyTh83hDVYZvTD0jJw/edit?gid=1335528026#gid=1335528026>
 *before 12 noon on Friday, 5/1*. The lunch will be on May 4, 12-1 pm in *Room
1116T* on the 11th floor of 100 College St. There are limited slots, so
this opportunity will be first-come, first-served.


See you there,
Kia, Roeland, Lizzie, Shruti
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