第80期心理沙龙将于本周四（10月26日）下午4点在学院301会议室举行，本次沙龙的主讲人为心理学院孟明教授，以下是此次沙龙的具体内容。
    孟明教授是国际顶尖的视知觉研究专家，之前曾担任美国常青藤名校达特茅斯学院助理教授，于2017年正式进入我院工作，欢迎各位老师和您的研究生参加。

题  目：人类动态认知功能的精准脑成像

主讲人：孟明 教授（华南师范大学心理学院）

时  间：10月26日（周四）下午4点到5点

地  点：心理学院301会议室

摘  要

A "predictive coding" hypothesis proposes that the brain dynamically anticipates and generates predictions about upcoming stimuli to guide perception efficiently. Here, we combined functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), multi-voxel pattern decoding, and an innovative time-resolved psychophysical paradigm to assess the temporal profile and spatial distributions of this prediction process.

Strikingly, we demonstrate rhythmic population activity in several task-related brain areas. Specifically, multi-voxel activity patterns in the fusiform face area (FFA) and the parahippocampal place area (PPA) show temporal fluctuations at a theta-band (~5 Hz) rhythm that accompany effects in visual object priming. These results provide novel and essential constraints to understand the neuronal dynamics of predictive coding. Moreover, these results suggest a feasible fMRI strategy to measure temporal fluctuations of multi-voxel activity patterns in the human brain, providing a critical link between fMRI measurements and neurophysiological recordings to understand fine-scale spatiotemporal dynamics of attention and consciousness.

报告人简介

孟明教授，本科毕业于中科大少年班，硕士和博士毕业于普林斯顿大学心理系。在麻省理工学院完成了3年博士后工作之后，进入美国常青藤名校达特茅斯学院担任助理教授。于2017年进入华南师范大学心理学院。孟明教授是视知觉研究的顶尖专家，目前已经在Nature Neuroscience, Neuron等国际一流期刊上发表多篇论文。