Event overview
As part of The Whitehead Lectures, Marinella Cappelletti will discuss evidence on the plasticity of the number brain and its resilience to damage or ageing.
Abstract: How are some people able to maintain number skills even after brain lesions or following congenital impairments to the number brain? Can numeracy be improved in young and ageing people? Evidence from psychophysics, neuropsychology, brain imaging and brain stimulation techniques suggests that the human brain is capable of maintaining residual number skills even when injured or impaired from birth, and that these skills can be further boosted with training in the young and elderly brain. Together, these results highlight the plasticity of the number brain but also its resilience to damage or ageing, because number relies on a primitive, dynamic cognitive and neuronal system.
Brief
Bio: Marinella is a lecturer in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, who has previously worked at UCL, first on a Wellcome Trust Training fellowship and then on a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship. Before these fellowships and after her PhD at Kings, she spent one year in Boston, US learning brain stimulation techniques. She uses numerical cognition to understand brain plasticity in the healthy and pathological brain.
www.gold.ac.uk/cccc/whitehead/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Oct 2013 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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