Parietal control of attention, saccadic remapping and audiovisual integration: Insights from human brain stimulation studies

 

On Wednesday 01 June, Professor Jason Mattingley, Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience with UQ's Queensland Brain Institute and School of Psychology, will speak on the topic of 'Parietal control of attention, saccadic remapping and audiovisual integration: Insights from human brain stimulation studies' as part of QBI's ongoing seminar series.

Mechanisms of attention are crucial for prioritising sensory inputs, regulating cognitive operations and selecting appropriate motor responses.

Human brain imaging studies have suggested that various subregions of the parietal cortex alter their activity during changes in attentional state, but the causal role of these regions in attentional processes remains unclear.

Professor Mattingley will present results from a series of studies in which we have used focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to reveal the causal role of the human inferior parietal cortex in selective attention, saccadic updating of visual space, and audiovisual integration. 

He will also describe TMS experiments in which it has been shown that selective attention modulates functional plasticity within the human primary motor cortex.

Taken together, these findings imply a central role for attention in multisensory integration and associative learning, and have important implications for approaches to rehabilitation following acquired brain injury.

 DETAILS
 
Date: Wednesday 01 June 2011
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM
Location: Level 7 Auditorium, QBI Building (#79), St.Lucia Campus
 
For a list of upcoming seminars at QBI, go to http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/neuroscience-seminars

 

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