Integrating multisensory models of brain/mind with naturalistic laboratory research to improve pediatric research
From ANT Neuro Educational Webinar Series
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Abilities to pay attention to currently important stimuli (“selective attention”) are crucial to everyday behaviour. Attention allows us to see clearly and learn new skills. However, cognitive and brain models of selective attention and learning are traditionally unisensory. This contrasts with the multi-sensory nature of environments and the brain’s propensity to represent objects in a multisensory fashion.
The presenter is Dr. Paul Matusz who is a group leader at the School of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland and University Hospital Centre – University of Lausanne. He holds an Adjunct Professor appointment at the Hearing and Speech Department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, USA. Paul is an experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist who is interested in how adults and children process information in naturalistic, multisensory environments.
In this webinar, he will discuss some of his research showing how the traditional laboratory and the neuroscientific research “in the wild” can be bridged by an approach that integrates rigorous paradigms, EEG as a tool to measure brain activity, and information-rich multivariate EEG analyses (e.g. Matusz et al. 2019 JOCN). He will discuss how studying selective attention in audio-visual settings can reveal novel findings about developing and developed selective attentional skills. He’ll demonstrate how electrical EEG/ERP neuroimaging can help identify the neurocognitive mechanisms, such as attentional control, that support scholastic achievement, and how these relationships change with age. He will use sensory developmental disorders as a model to study how neurotechnology offer important means for linking individual’s health with their cognition and scholastic attainment. He will finish by discussing implications of these findings for improving ecological validity of developmental cognitive research and practice.
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