35.759, FYI: Online C-STAR lecture, Jeff Binder: Neurobiology of Concept Representation

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Subject: 35.759, FYI: Online C-STAR lecture, Jeff Binder: Neurobiology of Concept Representation

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Date: 05-Mar-2024
From: Dirk Den Ouden [ouden at mailbox.sc.edu]
Subject: Online C-STAR lecture, Jeff Binder: Neurobiology of Concept Representation


Thursday, March 14th, 12pm EST (5pm UTC)
Presentation in Zoom, accessible via the C-STAR website:
http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/


Recent Evidence on the Neurobiology of Concept Representation

Jeffrey Binder, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin

Concepts are the building blocks of human cognition, and much of the
human brain is dedicated to storing and manipulating conceptual
information. The speaker will review several anatomical and functional
models of concept representation and the use of multivariate fMRI
methods such as representational similarity analysis to adjudicate
between these models. The evidence suggests that lexical concepts are
encoded as multimodal experiential representations, a central tenet of
empiricist philosophy and embodied cognition theories. These
representations are widespread throughout high-level cortical areas
and are not confined to a single hub. Other evidence, focusing on the
distinction between object and event concepts, shows how experiential
representations can explain variation in semantic category
representation across the cortex, providing a neurobiological account
of category-related semantic deficits.
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The online lecture can be followed online from your computer, tablet
or smartphone, in Zoom. The zoom link is accessible via the C-STAR
website: http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/

The live in-person lecture will be in Discovery I room #140 (915
Greene Street, Columbia, SC, USA)

For more information, or to be added to the C-STAR mailing list,
contact Dirk den Ouden: denouden at sc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics




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