coggroup November 2016

coggroup@mx1.psych.mcgill.ca

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[Coggroup] McGill Cognitive Area Seminar, Nov 25 2016: Professor Eve-Marie Quintin
by Anna Zamm 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Dear all, Just a reminder that Professor Eve-Marie Quintin (McGill Education and Counseling Psychology) will be speaking in our Cognitive Area Seminar today, Friday, November 25th, 3:30 - 5 PM (Room S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue). Her talk is titled, "Musical engagement in autism spectrum disorder and its social correlates in the general population." For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! --------------------------------------- *Musical engagement in autism spectrum disorder and its social correlates in the general population* Eve-Marie Quintin, Ph.D., will present research suggesting that music may be a privileged means of communication with individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Specifically, findings show that appreciation and music and listening habits of adolescents with ASD and their ability to recognize music-evoked emotions are not different from typically developing peers. She will also present ongoing work investigating the relationship between musical engagement, personality, and social skills including autistic traits present on a continuum in the general population. Dr. Quintin joined the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University as an Assistant Professor in 2014 as a Faculty member of the School/Applied Child Psychology program. Dr. Quintin is a child and adolescent neuropsychologist. She completed a Ph.D. and Psy.D. in neuropsychology at Université du Québec à Montréal in 2011 where she conducted research on music and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As a postdoctoral fellow, she studied cognitive, behavioral, and brain development of individuals with ASD and fragile X syndrome at the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University from 2011 to 2013. She also investigated cognitive and brain aging at the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013-2014. She now leads the McGill Behaviour, Autism, and NeuroDevelopment (BAND) research group. https://www.mcgill.ca/researchband/

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[Coggroup] McGill Cognitive Area Seminar, Nov 25 2016: Professor Eve-Marie Quintin
by Anna Zamm 24 Nov '16

24 Nov '16

Dear all, Professor Eve-Marie Quintin (McGill Education and Counseling Psychology) will be speaking in our Cognitive Area Seminar this Friday, November 25th, 3:30 - 5 PM (Room S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue). Her talk is titled, "Musical engagement in autism spectrum disorder and its social correlates in the general population." For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! --------------------------------------- *Musical engagement in autism spectrum disorder and its social correlates in the general population* Eve-Marie Quintin, Ph.D., will present research suggesting that music may be a privileged means of communication with individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Specifically, findings show that appreciation and music and listening habits of adolescents with ASD and their ability to recognize music-evoked emotions are not different from typically developing peers. She will also present ongoing work investigating the relationship between musical engagement, personality, and social skills including autistic traits present on a continuum in the general population. Dr. Quintin joined the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University as an Assistant Professor in 2014 as a Faculty member of the School/Applied Child Psychology program. Dr. Quintin is a child and adolescent neuropsychologist. She completed a Ph.D. and Psy.D. in neuropsychology at Université du Québec à Montréal in 2011 where she conducted research on music and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As a postdoctoral fellow, she studied cognitive, behavioral, and brain development of individuals with ASD and fragile X syndrome at the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University from 2011 to 2013. She also investigated cognitive and brain aging at the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013-2014. She now leads the McGill Behaviour, Autism, and NeuroDevelopment (BAND) research group. https://www.mcgill.ca/researchband/

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[Coggroup] McGill Cognitive Area Seminar, Nov 11 2016: Professor Signy Sheldon
by Anna Zamm 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Dear all, *Professor Signy Sheldon *(McGill Psychology) will be speaking in our Cognitive Area Seminar this *Friday, November 11th, 3:30 - 5 PM *(Room S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue). *Her talk is titled, **"**The cognitive and neural processes that support different ways of remembering."* For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! --------------------------------------- *The cognitive and neural processes that support different ways of remembering* Professor Signy Sheldon, Department of Psychology, McGill University A major question in memory research is if different types of retrieval rely on distinct neural processes. In this talk, I will present behavioral and neuroimaging evidence that shows that the hippocampus, a critical brain structure for memory, is differently recruited depending on what is being recalled and also who is doing the remembering. I will also present results that show that the hippocampus supports retrieval for tasks outside the domain of remembering. Together, these findings lead the field away from traditional views of the hippocampus as a region exclusive to memory to one that views hippocampal processes as dynamic and flexible.

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[Coggroup] Seminar
by Norman White 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

Professor Signy Sheldon (McGill Psychology) will be speaking in our Cognitive Area Seminar this Friday, November 11th, 3:30 - 5 PM (Room S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue).

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[Coggroup] The Inaugural SCSD Donald G. Doehring Memorial Lecture
by Anna Zamm 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

The Inaugural SCSD Donald G. Doehring Memorial Lecture This lecture honors the first director of the McGill School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, who was instrumental in establishing the school with a strong focus on research and evidence-based practice. Thursday Nov 10, 1 pm McIntyre Medical Building Meakins Auditorium, 5th floor Room 521 “Perceptual learning in language processing” Dr. Rachel M. Theodore University of Connecticut Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Haskins Laboratories University of Connecticut A major goal of research in the domain of speech perception is to describe how listeners achieve stable processing given the lack of invariance between the acoustic input and the perceptual categories that support language comprehension. A rich research literature has demonstrated that listeners solve the lack of invariance problem, in part, by dynamically modifying the mapping to phonetic category structure to reflect systematic variation in the input. In this talk, I will present findings from behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational approaches that shed light on the mechanisms that support such perceptual learning, highlighting (1) intersections between perceptual learning for speech perception and voice recognition, (2) the role of general cognitive processing (e.g., attention) in perceptual learning, (3) relationships between perceptual learning and reading ability, and (4) implications of perceptual learning in populations with language disorders.

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[Coggroup] McGill Cognitive Area Seminar, Nov 4 2016: Professor Bratislav Misic
by Anna Zamm 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Dear all, *Professor Bratislav Misic *(Montreal Neurological Institute/McConnell Brain Imaging Centre) will be speaking in our Cognitive Area Seminar this *Friday, November 4th, 3:30 - 5 PM *(Room S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue). *His talk is titled, **"* *Spreading dynamics on large-scale brain networks."* For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! --------------------------------------- *Spreading dynamics on large-scale brain networks* Professor Bratislav Misic, Montreal Neurological Institute, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre The human brain is a complex network of anatomically connected and functionally interacting neuronal populations. Collective communication among these distributed elements is thought to support patterned neural activity, as well as flexible cognitive operations and complex behavior. Recent innovations in noninvasive neuroimaging have resulted in increasingly detailed maps of human brain connectivity patterns, creating a need for theoretical principles that explain how these networks shape neural communication. Here we systematically investigate how neural signaling is constrained by anatomical connectivity in meso- and macro-scale neural circuits. Using a simple model of cascade spreading, we investigate a series of scenarios where focal perturbations result in global signaling cascades that interact either cooperatively or competitively. We find that topological features, such as community structure and core-periphery organization, shape spreading patterns. Moreover, anatomical embedding potentiates sensory-motor integration and the convergence of multiple cascades towards polysensory associative areas. Altogether, these results show that the organization of brain networks shapes the functional properties of brain areas and facilitates integrative function.

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