Description:I will talk about the contribution of auditory and visual thalamus to speech recognition. This includes studies on typically developed participants as well as developmental dyslexics. I will integrate the findings into a predictive coding view of dynamic cortico-thalamic interactions.
Bio: Katharina von Kriegstein is Professor of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the Psychology Faculty of the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD). Before joining the TUD, Katharina was Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin and group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (2009-2017). From 2004-2009 she was postdoc at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK. In her research she focusses on understanding the sensory mechanisms that enable humans to communicate successfully with each other. This includes neuroscientific research on typically developed populations as well as people with communication deficits such as developmental dyslexia, autism or person identity recognition deficits. Katharina is an internationally leading expert on neuroscience of human communication. Her work has been published in many high-ranking international journals and she received prestigious grants such as an ERC-consolidator grant (2016-2022) and a Max Planck Research Group Grant (2009-2017).
Twitter: @kvonkriegstein