CiNet Monthly Seminar

August 7, 2023
16:00-18:00 JST (BST + 8:00)

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16:00
“Distortions in tactile spatial perception”

Matthew Longo
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Psychological Sciences
Birckbeck, University of London, UK

Abstract:
The sense of touch provides rich spatial information about the shape of objects and their location in the world. At the same time, there are large and highly systematic distortions in tactile spatial perception, which have been studied for nearly 200 years. I will discuss these distortions and how they relate both to the construction of spatial information within the somatosensory system and to higher-level aspects of mental body representations.

Bio:
Matt studied Cognitive Science at the University of California, Berkeley before doing a PhD in Psychology at the University of Chicago. From 2006 to 2010 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, working with Patrick Haggard. Since 2010, he has been in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience.

16:45
“Representations of faces in the brain”

Lúcia Garrido
Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
City, University of London, UK

Abstract:
Faces convey much of the non-verbal information that we use when communicating with other people. We look at faces to recognize others, understand how they are feeling, and decide how to act. I will talk about three lines of my work on understanding face processing in the brain. First, I will talk about the brain correlates of developmental prosopagnosia, a condition in which people experience severe problems recognizing faces. Second, I will talk about a recent case study that gives us novel insights into the origin of the face inversion effect. And third, I will talk about how different face-responsive regions in the brain represent distinct information about faces.

Bio:
Lúcia studied Psychology at the University of Porto in Portugal, and then did an MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology at University College London (UCL). She completed her PhD at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, working with Brad Duchaine. From 2010 to 2013, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard University, working with Ken Nakayama. Lúcia was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London from 2013 to 2019. In 2019, Lucia moved to City University of London, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology.

Host : Nobuhiro Hagura