Ray Dolan was part of a unique roundtable event at the Global Center for Academic and
Spiritual Life in New York organized by the Emotional Brain Institute which focussed on
the scientific mind of an actor. The roundtable comprised of Academy Award winner
Philip Seymour Hoffman and actor Tim Blake Nelson, who recently co-starred in
“Lincoln”. More details here: http://nyunews.com/2013/03/07/hoffman-2/

and a photo here.

A video about the Language group’s research called ‘Big Picture: Inside the Brain’ will
be screened at the Barbican Neuroscience Festival Wonder Street Fair.

Details:

Sunday 7 April, 12.00-18.00; Monday 8 April, 12.00-19.30; Tuesday 9 April, 12.00-19.30
(Barbican Foyer) The Barbican Foyer springs to life with free drop-in activities,
performance, interaction and demonstrations. From cave painting to motion sensors and
from eye-trackers to body illusions, come along and knit a neuron, test your reactions and
pit your wits against brain scientists. With more than 20 different activities to stimulate,
inspire and amuse your little grey cells.

Klein-Flugge MC, Barron HC, Brodersen KH, Dolan RJ, Behrens TE (2013). Segregated
encoding of reward-identity and stimulus-reward associations in human orbitofrontal
cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 33(7): 3202-3211.

Teki S, Barnes GR, Penny W, Iverson P, Woodhead Z, Griffiths TD, Leff AP (2013). The
right hemisphere supports but does not replace left hemisphere auditory function in
patients with persistent aphasia. Brain (in press).