This is a hybrid event - in person and livestreamed on Zoom.

Modeling Speech-To-Language Transformations in the Human Brain

Edmund Lalor, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester

To transform speech into words, the human brain must accommodate variability across utterances in intonation, speech rate, volume, accents and so on. A promising approach to explaining this process has been to model electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings of brain responses to speech. In this talk, I will describe our use of this approach over the past decade to understand how the human brain transforms speech to language and how this transformation is affected by attention and visual input.

This lecture made possible in part by a generous endowment from Professor Allen L. Edwards.

Faculty host: Joe Sisneros, sisneros@uw.edu

Q&A and light refreshments to follow the lecture.