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Everything you may or may not want to know about the role of midfrontal theta-band oscillations in human cognitive control

Michael X Cohen

 
When?
Tuesday 7 May 2013, 16.00 to 17.00
Where?
01AC02
Open to:
Public, Staff, Students
Speaker:
Michael X Cohen
We and others have been studying the role of midfrontal theta-band (~6 Hz) activity in cognitive control. This field is about 10 years old, although it started gaining traction in 2009. I'll briefly review this nascent literature, outline what I think are the main limitations and challenges, and describe what -- in my opinion -- are the important future developments

Michael X Cohen
University of Amsterdam

Michael X Cohen received his PhD in psychology from the University of California, Davis, in 2007. During this time he also worked in an epilepsy clinic in Bonn, Germany, focusing on intracranial EEG in epilepsy and deep brain stimulation patients. He completed post-doctoral research at the University of Arizona and the University of Amsterdam, and currently leads a research group (Synchronization In Neural and Cognitive Systems --http://sincs.nl) at the University of Amsterdam. The topical focus of the group is to understand how medial prefrontal brain regions use theta-band electrophysiological activity to coordinate local and long-range neural networks in service of monitoring and flexibly adapting goal-directed behavior. The group uses primarily EEG, and also develops methodologies for linking EEG with structural brain measurements to understand how brain structure shapes brain function and large-scale network interactions.

Date:
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Time:

16.00 to 17.00


Where?
01AC02
Open to:
Public, Staff, Students
Speaker:
Michael X Cohen