Enhancing Learning in the Human Brain: Evidence from Functional Neuroimaging
Speaker: John Gabrieli , MIT BCS
Date: April 6 2006
Time: 3:00PM to 4:00PM
Location: 32-D507
Host: Polina Golland, CSAIL
Contact: Polina Golland, x38005, polina@csail.mit.edu
Relevant URL: Most of our knowledge about the organization of learning and memory
in the human brain comes from studies of patients with focal lesions
who exhibit memory impairments (amnesia). Functional neuroimaging
now allows for the study of neural systems that promote human
learning. I will review recently completed studies using functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in which we examined how
self-knowledge and motivation can promote declarative or episodic
memory formation. I will also review a study in which we used
real-time fMRI as a source of feedback to allow people learn how to
gain direct control of activation in a targeted brain region, which
in turn evoked the mental functions mediated by that brain region.
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