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EVENT CANCELED DUE TO  INCLEMENT WEATHER IN THE D.C. AREA.

"Speech and Auditory Memory: How Deep Is Their Connection?"

Date: 2/10/10, 4pm to 5pm
Time: 2/10/10, 4pm to 5pm
Location: UT Medical School Building - Room 3.001
Directions: 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, (713) 500-5116
Format: Lecture
Facilitator: Office of Research Affairs, Medical School at Houston
Speaker: Mortimer Mishkin, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Acting Chief, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institutes of Health -- Mortimer Mishkin, a cognitive neuroscientist in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology (LN) at the NIMH, studies brain/behavior relations in humans and nonhuman primates. With his colleagues, he helped to identify some of the areas in the cerebral cortex that are essential for perception and memory. This work showed that knowing what a stimulus is and knowing where it is depends on the activity of separate sensory "pathways" or "streams", each made up of many cortical areas arranged in a hierarchy. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and he serves on the advisory boards of several scientific journals and university research institutes.
Sponsor: Dean Giuseppe Colasurdo, Ph.D.
Contact: Kimberly Campbell - (713) 500-5605 - kimberly.j.campbell@uth.tmc.edu

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