31.3846, FYI: Online Lecture 12/17: Gesa Hartwigsen - Plasticity in the Language Network

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Subject: 31.3846, FYI: Online Lecture 12/17: Gesa Hartwigsen - Plasticity in the Language Network

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:57:35
From: Dirk Den Ouden [denouden at sc.edu]
Subject: Online Lecture 12/17: Gesa Hartwigsen - Plasticity in the Language Network

 
Thursday, December 17th, 2pm ET
Presentation in Zoom, accessible via the C-STAR website:
http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/

Plasticity and short-term reorganization in the language network

Gesa Hartwigsen, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences Leipzig, Germany

Language is organized in large-scale networks in the human brain. I will
outline how the combination of non-invasive brain stimulation and functional
neuroimaging may provide insight into short-term reorganization in the healthy
and lesioned language network. Recent work suggests that inhibition of key
language areas in the healthy brain triggers different mechanisms of adaptive
plasticity which help to compensate for focal perturbation: Compensation may
take place within a specialized network via recruitment of other network nodes
or homologous regions in the right hemisphere. In case of large network
disruption, compensation may also take place across networks, via recruitment
of neighbouring networks for other specialized functions or domain-general
networks. Such interactions between language-specific and domain-general areas
are also relevant during language learning. Recent data on adaptive plasticity
in the lesioned language network further suggests that perturbation of the
reorganized language network may unmask the contribution of the right
hemisphere to language. Finally, I will argue that the contribution of
domain-general networks to language may change with age.
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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/

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





 



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