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SUMMARY:Making sense of time in the Human mind - Professor Virginie van Wa
 ssenhove\, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit\, CEA DRF/Joliot\, INSERM\, Univers
 ité Paris-Sud\, Université Paris-Saclay\, NeuroSpin center\, 91191 Gif/Y
 vette\, France 
DTSTART:20181116T163000Z
DTEND:20181116T173000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Abstract  \nWhile we are all experts in “experiencing time
 ”\, introspection provides us with very little intuition regarding the n
 eural mechanisms supporting time perception and temporal cognition.  In th
 is talk\, I will discuss the importance of clocking mechanisms for the bio
 logy of the mind\, and how oscillations help reframing temporalities from 
 the perspective of the brain itself (as generator-observer of events) in o
 pposition to that of the external observer (as information reader). I will
  illustrate this point by focusing on the role of oscillatory activity in 
 low-level temporal logistics of information processing\, yielding temporal
  order and behavioral precision. Second\, I will focus on the notion that 
 conscious timing does not linearly map onto neural timing – i.e.\, that 
 temporalities are represented abstractly and intelligibly - and exemplify 
 this with recent work focused on the generative nature of the psychologica
 l time arrow (mental time travel)\, and the ability to introspect about on
 e’s self-generated timing productions (temporal metacognition).\n\nShort
  Bio: \nVirginie van Wassenhove received her PhD in the Neurosciences and 
 Cognitive Sciences program of the University of Maryland\, College Park\, 
 USA (2004) under the direction of Prof David Poeppel. During her graduate 
 training\, she focused on the perception and cortical bases (M/EEG\, fMRI)
  of audiovisual speech processing as an example of predictive coding in mu
 ltisensory integration. During her post-graduate training\, she worked wit
 h Prof Srikantan Nagarajan (UC San Francisco) on auditory learning and pla
 sticity\, with Dr Ladan Shams (UC Los Angeles) on multisensory statistical
  learning\, with Prof Dean Buonomano (UC Los Angeles) on time perception a
 nd at Caltech with Prof Shinsuke Shimojo on gesture communication\, and in
 terpersonal interactions. Late 2008\, she joined NeuroSpin and the Cogniti
 ve Neuroimaging Unit directed by Prof Stanislas Dehaene as the head of the
  MEG lab. In 2012\, she became an INSERM group leader of the Brain Dynamic
 s research team\, in 2013\, she obtained her HDR (Habilitation à Diriger 
 des Recherches\; highest degree achievable in France) and became a Directo
 r of Research (DR). Her research interests currently focus on temporal cog
 nition and multisensory perception in humans.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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