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“Mapping the reading network using representational similarity analysis,” Simon Fischer-Baum, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Neuroscience Program
Location
Beckman Institute 1005
Date
Sep 24, 2019   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Simon Fischer-Baum
Contact
Aron Barbey
E-Mail
barbey@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Neuroscience Program Seminars

While there is general agreement about which patches of cortex are involved in reading words, there is extensive debate about the type of cognitive comptutation carried out in those patches. I will present results from a new line of research that uses representational similarity analysis as a tool to map between cognitive and neural theories of reading.

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