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CONTACT:k.j.linnell@gold.ac.uk
ORGANIZER:Goldsmiths College Psychology Department
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DESCRIPTION:Across races and cultures\, we love music\, appreciate visual a
 rt\, and produce novel ideas by creative imagination. Music\, visual art an
 d cognition are deeply interrelated\, acting like two convex mirrors each r
 eflecting and amplifying the other. Yet\, the simplest questions\, such as\
 , “How do we perceive natural music? Does everyone listen to music in the
  same way? Why someone prefers pop over classical? What are the neural corr
 elates of perception of visual art? How does an artist mentally compose an 
 artwork?” are yet to be completely understood. Brain imaging and lesion s
 tudies are successful in localizing the brain activities during higher cogn
 itive performances. However it is becoming increasingly established that ne
 ar and distant brain areas not only become co-active but also become functi
 onally co-operative leading to a dense brain network with functionally conn
 ected multiple brain regions. To assess the underlying network connectivity
 \, we recorded multichannel EEG signals during such higher cognitive tasks 
 and analysed them by using new analytical measures. In this talk\, I will p
 resent the results of functional connectivity analysis underlying human exp
 ertise in music\, in visual art during the perception of music\, visual art
 \, and of creative imagery.\n\nDr. Bhattacharya received his PhD from India
 n Institute of Technology. Later he was associated with Max-Planck-Institut
 e for Physics of Complex Systems\, Germany as a DAAD Fellow and with Califo
 rnia Institute of Technology\, USA as a Sloan Fellow. After working at Aust
 rian Academy of Sciences as a tenured Senior Scientist for several years\, 
 he moved to Goldsmiths last October. He is fascinated by the ever present b
 rain rhythms and synchronizations and tries to understand higher cognitive 
 functioning of human brain.
SUMMARY:Shadows of artistry on the cortical canvas of functional connectivi
 ty patterns
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LOCATION:Goldsmiths College Department of Psychology Ben Pimlott Building B
 en Pimlott Lecture Theatre
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