Symposium

7th February 2011, 15:00 - 18:00 | public event

Functional cross-modal processing: using the auditory cortex to see

Speakers:

Amir Amedi
Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), and The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

“What did visual deprivation and visual substitution studies teach us about brain organization and reorganization”

Bo N. Schenkman
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden / Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

“Human echolocation: The acoustic detection of objects by blind people”

Jamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK

“Seeing sounds and hearing vision: Evidence from synaesthesia”