BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Neuroscience//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://neuroscience.wustl.edu/events/ X-WR-CALDESC:Neuroscience - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210829T0235Z-1630204516.5831-EO-7756-1@172.23.128.19 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T082628Z CREATED:20210813T160103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211012T195943Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211027T170000 SUMMARY: Trotter Lecture: Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical Plasticity With in and Across Lifetimes\, Leah Krubitzer\, PhD (University of California\, Davis) DESCRIPTION: Leah Krubitzer\, PhD\, is a professor of psychology in the Cen ter for Neuroscience at the University of California\, Davis. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Leah Krubitzer\, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Center for Neur
oscience
University of California\, Davis
Hosted by: The Department of Neuroscience
This is a hybrid in-person a nd virtual event.
The talk will take place in the Eric P. Neuman Education Center (EPNEC)\, Seminar Room B\, and a reception will follow on the EPNEC veranda.
Virtual attendees can join via zoom.
Webinar
link: https://wustl-hi
paa.zoom.us/j/93046993776
The neocortex is one of the most distin ctive structures of the mammalian brain\, yet also one of the most varied i n terms of both size and organization. Multiple processes have contributed to this variability including evolutionary mechanisms (i.e.\, changes in ge ne sequence) that alter the size\, organization and connections of the neoc ortex\, and activity dependent mechanisms that can also modify these same f eatures over shorter time scales.
Because the neocortex does not deve lop or evolve in a vacuum\, when considering how different cortical phenoty pes emerge within a species and across species\, it is also important to co nsider alterations to the body\, to behavior\, and the environment in which an individual develops. Thus\, changes to the neocortex can arise via diff erent mechanisms\, and over multiple time scales. Brains can change across large\, evolutionary time scales of thousands to millions of years\; across shorter time scales such as generations\; and across the life of an indivi dual – day-by-day\, within hours\, minutes and even on a time scale of a se cond.
The combination of genetic and activity dependent mechanisms th at create a given cortical phenotype allows the mammalian neocortex to rapi dly and flexibly adjust to different body and environmental contexts\, and in humans permits culture to impact brain construction during development.< /p>
CATEGORIES:Mildred Trotter Lecture LOCATION:Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC) GEO:38.636879;-90.262400 ORGANIZER;CN="Kerry":MAILTO:grens@wustl.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://neuroscience.wustl.edu/events/event/trotter-lecture-c ombinatorial-creatures-cortical-plasticity-within-and-across-lifetimes-leah -krubitzer/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20210314T080000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR