BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250421T114611EDT-7192vGMFKK@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250421T154611Z DESCRIPTION:The Feindel Brain and Mind Seminar Series will advance the visi on of Dr. William Feindel (1918–2014)\, Former Director of the Neuro (1972 –1984)\, to constantly bridge the clinical and research realms. The talks will highlight the latest advances and discoveries in neuropsychology\, co gnitive neuroscience\, and neuroimaging.\n\nSpeakers will include scientis ts from across The Neuro\, as well as colleagues and collaborators locally and from around the world. The series is intended to provide a virtual fo rum for scientists and trainees to continue to foster interdisciplinary ex changes on the mechanisms\, diagnosis and treatment of brain and cognitive disorders.\n\n\nRegister for In-Person\n\nTo watch online\, click here\n \n\nHow Shared Interpretations and Experiences Shape Event Processing\, Ne ural Representations\, and Memory\n\nAbstract: The event segmentation theo ry posits that mental models\, referred to as event models\, are construct ed from prior knowledge and incoming perceptual information to interpret a nd predict ongoing experiences. When these event models generate a signifi cant prediction error\, they are replaced by a more appropriate model\, re sulting in event segmentation—the chunking of continuous experiences into discrete events. Alex Barnett's research explores how shared knowledge aff ects the segmentation of experiences\, cortical representational patterns\ , and memory. Findings indicate that prior knowledge in a domain is associ ated with better memory and more synchronized event segmentation in indivi duals with high domain knowledge compared to those with low domain knowled ge. Additionally\, the research demonstrates that as individuals accumulat e shared knowledge and experiences\, brain synchrony during event encoding increases across a broad set of cortical regions\, including sensory\, at tentional\, and higher-order networks. Furthermore\, people who recall eve nts more similarly tend to exhibit shared multivariate patterns in the pos terior medial cortex. These experiments provide insights into how prior kn owledge and experience are utilized by the brain\, influencing the way eve nts are experienced and recalled.\n\nAlex Barnett\n\nAssistant Professor\, The Neuro\, 91ÉçÇø\n\n\n\nAlex Barnett completed his B.Sc.\, M .A. and PhD at the University of Toronto at Toronto Western Hospital inves tigating the neural underpinnings of cognition in temporal lobe epilepsy. He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of California\, D avis before starting a faculty position at the University of Toronto. He i s now an assistant professor at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute -Hospital). Barnett’s research incorporates elements of systems neuroscien ce\, cognitive psychology\, and clinical neuropsychology in creative ways to expand our understanding of episodic memory. His research explores how neocortical networks in the brain interact with the hippocampus to support the formation\, retrieval\, and transformation of episodic memories and h ow this process is altered in temporal lobe epilepsy and other neurologica l disorders.\n DTSTART:20250203T180000Z DTEND:20250203T190000Z LOCATION:De Grandpre Communications Centre\, The Neuro SUMMARY:Feindel Brain and Mind Seminar Series: How Shared Interpretations a nd Experiences Shape Event Processing\, Neural Representations\, and Memor y URL:/neuro/channels/event/feindel-brain-and-mind-semin ar-series-how-shared-interpretations-and-experiences-shape-event-362943 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR