Agenda
January 2024
B&C Tuesday Seminar “How do our thoughts, imaginations and intentions influence sleep ?”
Sleep, particularly slow-wave sleep (SWS), is critical for optimal cognitive functioning and health. Sleep disturbances are highly frequent in our ...
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B&C Tuesday Seminar “A cross-species approach to the neural bases of empathy and prosociality”
How does our brain make us feel what others feel? How does it motivate us to help others? We will start by showing that while witnessing the...
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B&C Tuesday Seminar “Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain”
Recent insights from auditory neuroscience provide a new perspective on how the brain encodes speech. Using these recent insights, I will provide...
Find out more »B&C Tuesday Seminar “Where is my mind?: The effects of attention on brain, behaviour and cognition”
The importance of attention for our cognition and behaviour is often glaringly apparent when we experience various inattention failures. At times...
Find out more »B&C Tuesday Seminar “The linguistic foundations of verbal working memory”
While many current models of verbal working memory acknowledge interactions with verbal long-term memory, the nature of these interactions remains ...
Find out more »April 2024
B&C Tuesday Seminar “Non-pharmacological interventions to enhance memory”
My research is about memory of the past and memory of the future. In this talk I will present studies, in which these processes were modulated...
Find out more »B&C Tuesday Seminar “From Lexical Selection to Articulation Across the Lifespan”
Abstract Speaking involves selecting and producing about 150 words per minute, at least in young adult speakers, but speed of word selection and...
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B&C Tuesday Seminar “Exploring the cerebral mechanisms of acoustically-challenging speech comprehension-successes, failures and hope”
Abstract Comprehending speech under acoustically challenging conditions is an everyday task that we can often execute with ease. However,...
Find out more »Séminaire de Marco Buiatti “Frequency tagging: a powerful method to investigate neurocognitive development with EEG.”
Hosts: Sophie Schwartz & Valentina Borghesani
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