Human Neuroimaging

Tuesday October XXXth: XXX EST

Zoom:  https://washington.zoom.us/j/8589453363 

Over the last two decades MR neuroimaging has become a critical tool for studying brain function; allowing us to non-invasively observe the structure and activity of the human brain. Neuroimaging techniques can help us understand how different brain regions and the connections between them are involved in various cognitive and behavioral processes, such as perception, attention, memory, language, decision-making, and emotion regulation, in both health and disease. 

John Pyles is Associate Director at the Center for Human Neuroscience. As well as being a world-leader in best-practice in neuroimaging his research focuses on how the brain perceives, processes and utilizes dynamic visual information, including object recognition and the critical social information conveyed from the motion of human bodies and faces. 

Geoff Boynton is Director at the Center for Human Neuroscience. A major goal of his research is on attention, and specifically how and why some visual stimuli get past the attentional bottleneck and some don’t. He is also interested in the relationship, across individuals, between performance on a variety of perceptual tasks and the corresponding neural responses in cortical areas that represent the stimuli for those tasks.