Dear all,
You are cordially invited to the next NEURO-Connect seminar, which will take place on April 1st at 12:15 at Campus Biotech.
The NEURO-Connect seminars aim at presenting different areas of the neuroscience community in Campus Biotech, ranging from cognition and emotion to neurobiology and neuroengineering, with the support of all institutions active on the site, including the UNIGE (NEUFO, CISA, FPSE), NCCR Evolving Language, EPFL (Neuro-X), HUG, CIBM and Wyss Center, and with the support of the Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva.
The next session will be hosted by NEUFO. The speaker will be Prof. Pascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille, France), with the talk “Comparative Investigations of Cerebral Voice Processing in Primates”. Please see abstract and other details below.
Private meetings with Prof. Belin can be organized, and early career researchers (ECR, e.g., doctoral and postdoctoral) are encouraged to join the invited speaker for a networking lunch offered by the FCBG (10 spots, first-come, first-served). To indicate your wish to meet one-to-one with Prof. Belin, or to register for the ECR lunch after the talk, please fill-in the following survey until Wednesday, March 26th: Lunch registration. This delay is needed to be able to properly organize the schedule and to order the correct number of meals in time. We thank you for your cooperation.
Doctoral students can receive credits for their attendance, please don’t forget to have your attendance sheet signed.
For any questions on this event, you can contact the session organizer at timothee.Proix@unige.ch.
Looking forward to seeing you at NEURO-Connect.
The organizing team
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NEURO-CONNECT seminars
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
12:15
Campus Biotech, H4-02-A
Prof. Pascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille, France)
Comparative Investigations of Cerebral Voice Processing in Primates
I will present a series of functional MRI and electrophysiological studies investigating the neuronal bases of voice information processing in the primate auditory cortex. Human fMRI studies have identified a network of areas particularly engaged by voices—whether speech or not. A core network of this ‘vocal brain’ is centered on bilateral temporal ‘temporal voice areas’ (TVAs) in secondary auditory cortex, extending to bilateral inferior prefrontal and subcortical areas. TVAs have also been identified with fMRI in macaques, and more recently, marmosets, suggesting an evolutionary-ancient vocal brain. fMRI-guided electrophysiology in non-human primates offers a unique window into the neuronal mechanisms of voice information processing. We will present recent results examining the spiking rates of populations of individual neurons in voice-sensitive cortex of macaque monkeys, confirming the existence of ‘voice cells’ and discovering unsuspected human-selective cells.
Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85214333449?pwd=Gqyn4bGIaaQbQLeqL22s5ntA6bXM2m.1
Meeting ID: 852 1433 3449
Passcode: 725766
Disclaimer: the Neuro-Connect seminars are recorded. By participating, you authorize the possible capture and use of your image or voice in audiovisual recordings made during the event
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