Seeing Your Way Around The Brain: Brain Mapping

When
November 18, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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Speaker: Aina Puce PhD --- Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor in Social Justice & Ethics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University; Bachelor and Master of Applied Science, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; PhD Medicine, University of Melbourne; Post-doctoral Fellow Neurosurgery, Yale University (Email: ainapuce@indiana.edu) (Sponsored By: Robert Yee MD)(ID: 1916)

The human brain's visual system is a mosaic of brain regions with different specializations, which can manifest as selective visual deficits in focal brain injury. Non-invasive brain mapping methods can study these specialized brain regions in detail in healthy people and patients alike. It is possible to measure changes in focal brain blood flow [functional MRI] and magnetic fields or electrical activity at the scalp surface[magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography]. Electrical activity may also be recorded invasively from inside the brains of neurosurgical patients. Studying the functions of the brain's "grey matter" are only part of the story: the information carrying pathways formed by the brain's "white matter" help ferry the grey matter's communications to other parts of the brain. I will present examples from all of these methods to discuss how our brains make sense of the face and body movements of others.

The Scientech Club provides a forum for weekly presentations and discussions in science, technology, and other topics. The Club meets most Mondays at the Northside Events Center and Social Club (2100 E. 71st Street, Indianapolis, IN 46220.