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Putting Humpty Together Again: Decoding Brain Networks During Real-World Processing

Humpty Dumpty

An important task for cognitive neuroscience is to understand how the brain supports broad functions that are engaged in everyday life, like interpersonal communication. Great progress has been made by decomposing these functions into discrete processes that can be associated with activity in particular brain regions and networks. What we do not know, however, is if and how these processes operate together. Thus, our overarching goal will be to understand how brain networks supports real-world behaviours under more ecological conditions.

Disciplines and Techniques
Project supervisor/s
Dr. Jeremy Skipper
Jeremy is interested in the neurobiology of language use.
University College London
Pofessor Lewis Griffin
Lewis is interested in Computational Vision with particular emphasis on Spatial Vision and Colour Vision.
University College London
References
A core speech circuit between primary motor, somatosensory, and auditory cortex: Evidence from connectivity and genetic descriptions
Skipper, J. I., & Hasson, U.
bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/139550
May 19, 2017
Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use
Skipper, J. I.
Cambridge University Press, pp. 101–134
2015
Gestures orchestrate brain networks for language understanding
Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L.
Current Biology: CB, 19(8), 661–667
2009
Distributional learning of appearance
Griffin, L. D., Wahab, M. H., & Newell, A. J.
PloS One, 8(2), e58074
2013
The intrinsic geometry of the cerebral cortex
Griffin, L. D
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 166(3), 261–273
1994