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By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

Neuroscientists are invited to get involved in the Wellcome Trust’s ‘Wonder: Art and
science on the brain’ at the Barbican 7-9th April – details are at
www.barbican.org.uk/brain. (courtesy Zula)

Upcoming Talks: East of England Stroke Forum Conference for Health Professionals

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

Louise Lim and Johanna Rae from the Language Group have been invited to present at
the East of England Stroke Forum Conference for Health Professionals on 14th March
and will be presenting ‘Using Neuroscience to Understand Recovery of Aphasia’.

New Publications

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

Language:

Kawabata Duncan, Keith J.; Twomey, Tae; Parker Jones, ‘Ōiwi; Seghier,
Mohamed L.; Haji, Tomoki; Sakai, Katsuyuki; Price, Cathy J.; Devlin,
Joseph T. 2013. Inter- and intrahemispheric connectivity differences
when reading Japanese Kanji and Hiragana. Cerebral Cortex; doi:
10.1093/cercor/bht015


Parker Jones, ‘Ōiwi; Seghier, Mohamed L.; Kawabata Duncan, Keith J.;
Leff, Alex P.; Green, David W.; Price, Cathy J. 2013. Auditory–motor
interactions for the production of native and non-native speech. The
Journal of Neuroscience 33(6): 2376–2387.

Computational Anatomy:

Ashburner J, Ridgway GR. 2013. Symmetric diffeomorphic modeling of longitudinal
structural MRI. Frontiers in Brain Imaging Methods. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00197

Scanning stroke

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

The Big Picture team meets Sarah Scott, a charming young woman who experienced a stroke at the age of 18 while still at school. Now 22, Sarah is slowly recovering but continues to experience problems with both written and spoken language.

Sarah kindly agreed to visit the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, submitting to a brain scan in their massive MRI machine. While there, Sarah also took advantage of the opportunity to quiz the people behind the scanner and the scientists who study the images it produces in the hope they might discover clues to help present and future stroke patients.

Talking Heads

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

Rebuilding language after stroke.

Mind maths: Your personal prediction machine

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

The brain’s crystal ball may arise from a blend of cunning statistics and a technique that minimises surprises linked to the laws of thermodynamics.