WHEN: June 28 FRI, 2024
TIME: 1:00PM - 5:20PM
WHERE: Room 101, Building #28, Grand Lecture Hall, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University (서울대학교 자연대학 대형강의동 28동 101호)
The upcoming mini-symposium will feature two enlightening sessions. The first session, "Neural Mechanisms in Human Regularities: Insights from Music, Language, and Statistical Learning," will delve into the brain's processing and understanding of patterns and structures across different domains. The second session, "Exploring How the Human Brain Represents Quantity, Working Memory, and Long-Term Contextual Memories," will investigate the cognitive and neural foundations of numerical cognition, memory retention, and contextual memory integration. This symposium aims to bridge interdisciplinary research and foster a deeper understanding of human cognitive processes.
Online registration is required to attend the symposium
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Title: Neural bases of action planning: Lessons from solo and joint music performance
Bio: Dr. Daniela Sammler is Head of the Neurocognition of Music and Language research group at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. After completing her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig in 2008, she spent post-doctoral residencies in Paris, Glasgow, and Sydney, and used an Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society to establish her own independent research group in 2013. Together with her lab, Dr. Sammler studies how music and language are grounded and linked in the brain using neuroscientific methods such as functional neuroimaging, magneto- and electroencephalography, or transcranial magnetic stimulation. They systematically deconstruct and compare sensory, cognitive, and expressive stages during music and language perception and production.
Title: Neurodevelopmental markers of persistent stuttering
Bio: Soo-Eun Chang, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Principal Investigator, and Director of the Speech Neurophysiology Lab at the University of Michigan. She received her MS and clinical training as a Speech-Language Pathologist at Vanderbilt University, PhD in Speech and Hearing Science at the University of Illinois, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (NINDS/NIH). Dr. Chang’s research program focuses on advancing our understanding of the functional neuroanatomical mechanisms supporting speech motor control, and neural bases of developmental stuttering.
University of Michigan
Seoul National University
Title: Reduced functional connectivity supports statistical learning in humans
Bio: Hyeon-Ae Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Seoul National University. She investigates sequential processing in human cognition and language, as well as time-estimation abilities. Her research focuses on three areas: (1) acquisition and generalization of sequential rules, (2) neural correlates of language processing using large language models (LLMs), and (3) variations in time estimation during fun activities or in familiar environments. She uses a multidisciplinary approach, including behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS, eye-tracking, and mathematical modeling.
Title: Human quantity processing, from sensory to cognitive systems
Bio: Ben Harvey finished his PhD at Oxford in 2009 and is now an Associate Professor at Utrecht University’s Department of Experimental Psychology. His research applies neural model-based analyses to ultra-high field (7T) fMRI data from both sensory and cognitive systems. This has revealed neural mechanisms of visual space processing, numerical cognition, time perception and the relationships between them.
Utrecht University
National Institues of Health (NIH)
Title: Linking representational drift in human visual cortex to long-term contextual memory
Bio: Eli has been a group leader in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health at the Bethesda Campus of the NIH since 2016. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Neural Science at NYU, where he had completed a postdoctoral fellowship working with David Heeger and Tony Movshon. Eli’s research uses a combination of high-field fMRI, eye tracking, psychophysics, and computational modeling to study the link between neural activity and visual perception.
Title: Structural and functional architecture of the prefrontal cortex for working memory
Bio: Jacob is a postdoctoral fellow at the Wu Tsai Institute working with Profs. John Murray and Amy Arnsten, and he completed his Ph.D. under the mentorship of Mark D’Esposito at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on using precision neuroimaging approaches to build a convergent understanding of how the prefrontal cortex supports successful working memory behavior and the remarkable flexibility of human cognition. He will join the Department Psychology at the University of Miami as an incoming Assistant Professor in 2025.
Wu Tsai Institute
Room 101, Building #28, Grand Lecture Hall, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University
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