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SUMMARY:"Neuronal substrates for social communication – voices\, faces a
 nd songs" Synapses and Circuits Seminar   
DTSTART:20160922T093000
DTEND:20160922T103000
DTSTAMP:20260604T221657Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Catherine Perrodin\, University College London\, UK\nAbstr
 act: "Many social animals\, including humans\, communicate with each other
  using a variety of sound patterns. Yet how the brain accurately extracts
  and encodes social information from auditory communication signals is sti
 ll not well understood. To help clarify this\, my research investigates t
 he neuronal representation of communication signals in the brain of the li
 stener\, using extracellular recordings in nonhuman mammals and ethologic
 ally relevant social stimuli. In this talk\, I will first present data cla
 rifying the auditory encoding of voices by neurons in a voice-sensitive a
 rea of the primate brain. Second\, I will consider primate auditory commun
 ication in its multisensory context\, and summarize recent work exploring
  how visual face information interacts with the neuronal processing of vo
 ices during audio-visual stimulation. I will end with my recent switch to 
 a different animal model\, and introduce my ongoing research programme st
 udying the neuronal substrates of auditory social communication in mice.
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LOCATION:SV 3615 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%203615
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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