events March 2015

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[Events] McGill Psychology Hebb Lecture - DR KIA NOBRE - March 20, 2015, STBIO S1/3
by Jelena Ristic 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Dear Colleagues, I would be most grateful if you could forward or circulate this email to your department faculty and students, or any relevant listserve. Apologies for multiple postings. ------------- This is a friendly reminder that Dr. Kia Nobre from University of Oxford will deliver the Hebb lecture tomorrow, Friday, March 20th, 2015. The days events are as follows: 10:00am - Morning Seminar Title: Temporal expectations: The fourth dimension in attention. Location: Stewart Biology Building (1205 Dr. Penfield), Room N7/14. 3:30pm - Main Lecture Title: Premembering Perception Location: Stewart Biology Building (1205 Dr. Penfield), Room S1/3. Abstract: http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/misc/hebb/hebblectures.html 5:00pm - Cheese & Wine reception Location: 8th floor lobby, Stewart Biology Building (1205 Dr. Penfield). See you there, Jelena Jelena Ristic, PhD Assistant Professor & William Dawson Scholar Department of Psychology McGill University 1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1 Canada Phone: (514) 398 2091 Fax: (514) 398 4896 Email: jelena.ristic(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:jelena.ristic@mcgill.ca> Web: http://asc.mcgill.ca

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[Events] McGill Psychology Hebb Lecture -- Dr KIA NOBRE, March 20 at 3.30pm
by Jelena Ristic 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

Dear Colleagues, On Friday, March 20th, the McGill Psychology Department will be hosting Dr ANNA CHRISTINA (KIA) NOBRE from the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Dr Nobre will deliver a Hebb Lecture at 3.30pm in Stewart Biology Building, Room S1/3. Dr Nobre holds a position of Statutory Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience and is a Professorial Fellow at St. Catherine’s College at University of Oxford. Her research examines how neural activity linked to perception and cognition is modulated according to memories, task goals, and expectations. In addition to these basic mechanisms, she is interested in how these develop over the lifespan, and how they are disrupted in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Her work integrates behavioral methods with neuroimaging techniques, such as EEG, MEG, MRI and TMS. Main Lecture (3.30pm, Stewart Biology Building, Room S1/3) Title: Premembering Perception Abstract: Standard models of ‘attention’ are mostly concerned with the prioritisation of perceptual analyses according to our current goals. Substantial progress has been made in understanding the neural systems and mechanisms involved. The standard view is that top-down, goal-related signals maintained in working memory influence perceptual competition to select relevant items and inhibit distraction in the environment by acting upon receptive-field properties of events. However, top-down biases are not restricted to operate through receptive-field properties; they can also act upon the predicted timings of events as well as upon other, higher-order properties. Furthermore, short-term goal-related signals are not the only source of top-down influences upon perception. In everyday cognition, our long-term memories also play a major role in guiding the proactive and dynamic anticipation of events. In my talk, I will review studies from our laboratory that investigate how we can orient attention dynamically, taking into account the predicted timings of events; and how we use long-term memories to guide perception. Our findings suggest that in addition to being essential for assembling fragments of past experiences so that we can ‘remember’ them, memories are equally important for projecting predictions to guide assembly of cohesive percepts from incoming stimulation, working together with our current goals to ‘premember’ perception. Following the lecture, everyone is invited to join us for a wine-and-cheese reception in the lobby of the 8th floor of the Stewart Biology Building. If you would like to meet with Dr Nobre individually, please contact me at jelena.ristic(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:jelena.ristic@mcgill.ca>. Morning Seminar (10:00am, Stewart Biology Building, Room N7/14) Title: Temporal expectations: The fourth dimension in attention. Abstract: Proactive and dynamic ‘attention’ mechanisms continually regulate the prioritisation, selection, and integration of information to focus our perception on the relevant events to guide behaviour within the current context. The last few decades have witnessed tremendous advances in unveiling the modulatory mechanisms of attention based on receptive-field properties of neurones, such as spatial locations or sensory features. But, mechanisms of selective attention are not restricted to receptive-field properties. Attention mechanisms also enhance perception based on the anticipated timing of relevant events. The question addressed in this lecture is how temporal expectations can come to tune neural excitability to the relevant moments of our unravelling environment. The lecture will provide examples of novel experimental tasks for manipulating temporal expectations, and will draw on results from psychophysics and non-invasive recordings of human brain activity. Findings reveal novel mechanisms for tuning anticipatory attention functions over time, which interact strongly with other top-down attention biasing mechanisms. Neural oscillations appear to provide an important conduit for adjusting neural excitability dynamically based on temporal regularities and predictions in the environment. Graduate students interested in attending lunch with Dr Nobre are invited to contact the student host Dana Hayward at dana.hayward(a)mail.mcgill.ca<mailto:mathieu.landry2@mail.mcgill.ca>. Please feel free to circulate this notice widely. Best, Jelena Ristic Jelena Ristic, PhD Assistant Professor & William Dawson Scholar Department of Psychology McGill University 1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue Montreal, QC, H3A 1B1 Canada Phone: (514) 398 2091 Fax: (514) 398 4896 Email: jelena.ristic(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:jelena.ristic@mcgill.ca> Web: http://asc.mcgill.ca

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[Events] Lynn Nadel's Bindra Lecture on March 13 CANCELLED
by Jie Zhang 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

Hi everyone, I've received notice that due to unforeseen circumstances, Dr. Nadel will not be able to deliver the Bindra lecture scheduled for Friday, March 13th. Consequently, all activities scheduled for that day, including the Bindra Supper to be hosted by Dr. Jane Stewart, is now cancelled. I'm very sorry about this and any inconvenience it may have caused. Thank you, Jane (student host)

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[Events] March 13, Bindra Lecture Series: Lynn Nadel
by Karim Nader, Prof 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Hello everyone, The annual Bindra Lecture will take place Friday March 13th at 3:30 pm in Stewart Biology Building room S1/3 (1205 Ave du Docteur Penfield). Our invited speaker is Dr. Lynn Nadel, a McGill alumni, now a Regents' Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Nadel's research focuses on the hippocampus and memory formation. He has done groundbreaking work on the model of the hippocampus as a cognitive map, as well as multiple trace theory. Dr. Nadel's research has contributed greatly to our understanding of episodic memory, stress in memory function, and how dysfunction of the hippocampus affects mental retardation in Down Syndrome, just to name a few. Dr. Nadel and 2014 Nobel Prize winner Dr John O’Keefe have co-authored a book, The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, for which they received the 2006 Grawemeyer Award. The title of his talk is: "Episodic Memory: Why and How." Abstract: Episodic memory has unique features, emerging late in phylogeny and developing late in ontogeny. It captures singular events, in contrast to most memory systems. This talk will consider why episodic memory evolved, and its cognitive and neural underpinnings. In addition, there will be a morning seminar taking place at 10:30 - 12:00 pm in Stewart Biology N7/14. The title for this talk is: “A walk down the memory lane: On the ancient mnemonic arts, seahorses and maps". A wine and cheese will follow the main talk at 5:00 pm. Graduate students who would like to have lunch with Dr. Nadel should contact Jane (student host) at jie.zhang5(a)mail.mcgill.ca<mailto:jie.zhang5@mail.mcgill.ca>. Please circulate this email to anyone interested in Dr. Nadel's work. Looking forward to seeing everyone on March 13, Karim

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