MAGNETS, BRAINS AND LANGUAGE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE TMS

Professor Joe Devlin
Director, TMS laboratory at the Cognitive, Perceptual
& Brain Sciences, University College London
Assistant Director, fMRI centre, University College London

Friday 3 February 2012
at 14.15

Lecture Hall 1
Siltavuorenpenger 1A
University of Helsinki


Professor Joe Devlin will give a talk on the use of TMS in neuroscientific research at the University of Helsinki on 3 February 2012. The event is organised by the Cognitive Brain Research Unit at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences (University of Helsinki) and CICERO Learning.


The new TMS laboratory at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences
The event will also mark the opening of the TMS laboratory at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences. Members of the audience are invited to visit the TMS laboratory at Siltavuorenpenger 1B, 3rd floor after the lecture.


Professor Joe Devlin
Joe Devlin is Director of the TMS laboratory at the Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences, University College London and Assistant Director of the fMRI center at the same institute. He is well known for his work on the neural basis of language processing which he studies with a wide range of tehcniques, including TMS, fMRI and DTI.


Abstract
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has become an important tool in cognitive neuroscience because it provides the ability to safely and noninvasively perturb neural activity and measure its effect on behavior. As a result, TMS has become an increasingly valuable complement to functional neuroimaging by providing a method that goes beyond correlation to assess causal relations. Although "virtual lesions" are the most widely used TMS ethodology, a range of techniques including chronometric,
state-dependent and therapeutic TMS all provide unique insights into basic aspects of neural information processing. In this talk, I will present a personal journey of discovery, highlighting many of the ways that TMS has informed the neurobiology of language and looking ahead towards some of the opportunities still to come.


For more information about the event, please contact
Brain, Learning and Education Professor Teija Kujala


No registration required and everyone is welcome to attend!

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