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SUMMARY:Frontal Cortex and Human Behavior: a View From Direct Brain Record
 ings
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Robert T. Knight\, University of California\, USA.\nDIS
 TINGUISHED LECTURES in NEUROPROSTHETICS\n\nBilateral damage to human prefr
 ontal cortex results in a profound disintegration in goal-directed behavio
 r. We employ the superb spatial-temporal dynamics of cortical intracranial
  recording (electrocorticography\; ECoG) and intracortical depth recording
  (stereoencephalography\; SEEG) to obtain neurophysiological insights into
  how prefrontal cortex enables human cognition. High frequency band neural
  activity (HFB\; 70-200 Hz) provides an index of cortical excitability and
  connectivity metrics are employed to assess network dynamics. We have obs
 erved that HFB activity is tuned by the phase of lower frequency oscillati
 ons providing a metric of information flow in rapidly reconfiguring and dy
 namic neural networks. The intracranial approach has provided insights int
 o how PFC enables both cognitive and social capacity. Research on prefront
 al cortex and other efforts to develop a speech prosthesis will be reviewe
 d.\n\nBio:\nDr. Knight is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UC B
 erkeley. He  received his undergraduate degree in  Physics from the Illi
 nois Institute of Technology\, an MD from Northwestern University Medical 
 School\,obtained Neurology training at UC San Diego and Post-Doctoral trai
 ning at the Salk Institute. He served as Director of the UC Berkeley Helen
  Wills Neuroscience Institute from 2001-201l. Dr. Knight has twice receive
 d the Jacob Javits Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disor
 ders and Stroke for distinguished contributions to neurological research\,
  the IBM Cognitive Computing Award\, the German Humboldt Prize in Neurobio
 logy and the Distinguished Career Contribution Award from the Cognitive Ne
 uroscience Society. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Adv
 ancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Scien
 ces. His laboratory studies neurological patients with frontal lobe damage
  and also records electrical signals directly from the brain in neurosurgi
 cal patients to understand the role of prefrontal cortex in goal-directed 
 behavior.  His lab is also engaged in developing a speech prosthesis for 
 use in patients with disabling neurological disorders.  \n 
LOCATION:Campus Biotech H8 Auditorium http://cnp.epfl.ch/files/content/sit
 es/cnp/files/Seminars/PlanSallesCampusBiotechH8-01.pdf
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