Neuroscience Seminar: "How Our Brains Retrieve Words" by Dr. Carolina Deifelt Streese, Nov. 17

Title: How Our Brains Retrieve Words: Insights from Brain Injury

Description: The field of cognitive neuroscience started with the study of deficits in patients with focal brain injury, and more than 150 years later, we can still use this approach to understand language. This talk will cover how neuroscientists examine people with brain injuries and associated changes in speech patterns to understand language organization in the brain. Dr. Deifelt Streese will speak about work from the Iowa Neurological Patient Registry, including her own project examining what words participants with focal brain lesions say (or don’t say) during tasks.

Free and open to the public. This event may be used to satisfy the lecture requirement in PSYC 206 and PSYC 493-494.