Enhancing Learning in the Human Brain: Evidence from Functional Neuroimaging

Speaker: John Gabrieli , MIT BCS

Date: Thursday, April 06, 2006

Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

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Location: 32-D507

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Host: Polina Golland, CSAIL

Contact: Polina Golland, x38005, polina@csail.mit.edu

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Reminder Subject: TALK: Enhancing Learning in the Human Brain: Evidence fr

Most of our knowledge about the organization of learning and memory
in the human brain comes from studies of patients with focal lesions
who exhibit memory impairments (amnesia). Functional neuroimaging
now allows for the study of neural systems that promote human
learning. I will review recently completed studies using functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in which we examined how
self-knowledge and motivation can promote declarative or episodic
memory formation. I will also review a study in which we used
real-time fMRI as a source of feedback to allow people learn how to
gain direct control of activation in a targeted brain region, which
in turn evoked the mental functions mediated by that brain region.

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