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Feindel Brain and Mind Seminar Series: Multi-Modal Perception of Social Interactions

Lundi, 27 mai, 2024 13:00à14:00

Institut et Hôpital Neurologiques de Montréal Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre, 3801, rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2B4, CA

La série Feindel Brain and Mind Seminar s’inscrit dans la ligne de pensée du Dr William Feindel (1918-2014), directeur du Neuro de 1972 à 1984, qui consiste à maintenir un lien constant entre pratique clinique et recherche. Les présentations porteront sur les dernières avancées et découvertes en neuropsychologie, en neurosciences cognitives et en neuro-imagerie.

Les scientifiques du Neuro, ainsi que des collègues et collaborateurs venus du milieu ou du monde entier, se chargeront des conférences. Cette série se veut un forum virtuel pour les chercheurs et les stagiaires en vue de favoriser les échanges interdisciplinaires sur les mécanismes des troubles cérébraux et cognitifs, leur diagnostic et leur traitement.

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Etienne Abassi, PhD

Postdoc, Laboratoire de neurosciences cognitives auditives, Le Neuro, Université McGill

Hôte: justine.clery [at] mcgill.ca (Justine Clery)

Abstract: During our lifetime, we humans, have to manifest complex abilities for navigating our social world, and social interactions with our conspecifics occupy a substantial part of our time. Not only interacting in first person, but also watching or listening to others’ interactions serves critical functions in understanding this social world. Indeed, information about this world comes first through our senses, and humans rely heavily on vision and audition to communicate with their conspecifics. In this lecture, I will present a set of behavioral and fMRI studies on healthy humans, addressing the hypothesis that, given the importance of detecting and recognizing ongoing social interaction in the environment, the human brain has developed specialized mechanisms to process visual and auditory scenes that encompass multiple persons interacting, analogous to those developed for processing individual persons.

Etienne Abassi

Etienne Abassi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory at McGill university, led by Prof. Zatorre. He previously achieved his PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Marc Jeannerod in Lyon (France), under the supervision of Dr. Papeo, where he studied the neural substrates of processing social interactions in the visual cortex. He is now studying the mechanisms of processing social interactions through audition using speech and music.