Join our Cognitive area
for a special workshop featuring Professor Kim Shapiro\, Chair of Cognitive
Neuroscience at the University of Birmingham. Dr. Shapiro is a
Brain Oscillations in Attention and Memory
In recent years there has been an increasing drive to understand the role played by brain oscillations in hu man cognition. Neural oscillations are a plausible mechanism by which distr ibuted brain areas can communicate in real time to support the spectrum of cognitive activity from stimulus representation to decision making. My talk will focus on the role played by oscillations in different frequency bands to facilitate attention and long-term memory by examining the phenomena of the attentional blink and multi-modal associative memory\, respectively. U nderstanding the role of brain oscillations will be made increasingly possi ble by advances in high-density EEG\, MEG\, transcranial electrical stimula tion\, and electrocorticography.
Professor Kim Sha piro is the Chair of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Birmingham . Dr. Shapiro\, in collaboration with other colleagues\, published the firs t paper on the ‘attentional blink’ phenomenon\, which has attracted great i nterest on the part of many scientists. The original publication has been c ited over 2500 times and over 1000 reports on the same topic by scientists in many countries have followed from it. He employs a wide range of neurosc ience approaches and tools in his research\, including functional imaging ( fMRI)\, electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs)\, and magnetoencephalography (MEG).
