| Monday May 08, 2023 5:30 PM - Monday May 08, 2023 6:30 PM | Free |
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Public Lecture: Brain Rhythms Connect Physiology and Cognition
Monday, May 8, 2023
ICERM, 121 South Main Street, 11th Floor, Providence, RI 02903
Reception: 4:30 pm
Lecture begins: 5:30 pm
ABOUT THE LECTURE
This talk has two parts. First, I will use biophysically detailed models show how a variety of brain rhythms depend on underlying physiology in brain circuits, with hints about how brain rhythms use this physiology to support cognitive functions. Then I will use this background material in the context of a specific visual task requiring multiple brain areas (cortical and subcortical) and dynamically changing brain rhythms, to show how the experimentally measured complex brain dynamics come about and support function. The model suggests ways in which the rhythms provide flexibility for related tasks.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nancy Kopell received her A.B. from Cornell University in 1963 and Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of California Berkeley in 1967. She was a CLE Moore Instructor at MIT and then taught at Northeastern University. In 1986 she joined the faculty at Boston University, where she is now William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has held fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She was also a recipient of the Mathematical Neuroscience Prize from Israel Brain Technologies and the Swartz Prize in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience from SfN. Prof. Kopell is interested in dynamics of the nervous system, including the mechanistic origins of brain rhythms, their use in cognition, and their role in cognitive disorders. She started and continues to run the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative, a group whose mission is to facilitate collaboration among theorists and experimentalists on problems involving brain dynamics.
This event is free and open to the public.
Limited seating. Please register to reserve a seat.
Registration is not required if you wish to attend virtually, simply use this link during the scheduled talk time to access the live stream https://icerm.brown.edu/live-stream/.
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LocationICERM, Brown University's Math Institute (View)
121 S. Main St 11th Floor
Providence, RI 02903
United States
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