Please join us for our first Brown Bag event of the semester on Thursday, January 11, 12pm.

Dr. Christian Brodbeck is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Software at McMaster and a new member of ARiEAL Research Center!

Dr. Brodbeck will present a paper titled “Studying the neural basis of perception as a time-continuous process.” Before arriving at McMaster, Dr. Brodbeck completed at PhD in Psychology at New York University, was a postdoc at the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, and an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut. This is a great opportunity for all of you to learn more about the cutting-edge work of one of our newest ARiEAL members.

Dr. Brodbeck provided the following summary:

Human experience is inherently continuous in time. For example, speech perception entails cascading transformations from auditory to phonetic, lexical, syntactic and semantic representations. Time-lagged regression using temporal response functions (TRFs) has recently emerged as a promising tool for disentangling electrophysiological brain responses related to such complex models of perception. I will describe results showing predictive representations of continuous speech when listening to audiobooks, and the influence of selective attention on such representations. I will  also briefly give you an idea of what would be involved if you wanted to use this technique in your own research, with a toolbox I develop (https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85012).