Lunch Hour Lecture: Perception & action in the brain: what can electroencephalography (EEG) tell us

For humans, like most animal species, survival depends on effectively reacting to environmental stimuli. Picture yourself in a building when an alarm system starts to ring in a nearby room. Would it capture your attention? How would this event affect your subsequent motor response? In a series of experiments, using electroencephalography (EEG) and measuring event related potentials (ERPs), we examined how such unexpected and salient events are processed in the brain, and how dynamic interactions between sensory influences (such as stimuli properties) and cognitive factors (such as attention, expectation) affect our motor behaviour. Speaker: Dr Marina Kilintari, Research Associate based at the Human Sensory Neuroscience Research Group, UCL Date: 23 April 2019 UCL's popular public Lunch Hour Lecture series has been running at UCL since 1942, and showcases the exceptional research work being undertaken across UCL. Lectures are free and open to all.