From Synesthesia to Neurological Diseases - A Neuroscientific Approach

Date: 

Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

149 13th Street (Building 149), Room 2204

Synesthesia is a non-pathological variation of human perception that has contributed to foster the interest of the scientific community in the study of individual differences. Research on its neural basis has run in parallel with the development of neuroimaging techniques, which has allowed to characterize the synesthetic brain both at an anatomical and at a functional level. In this talk Dr. Melero will present phenomenological and neuroscientific data of the phenomenon, and explain the impact of synesthesia research on other areas of knowledge such as the identification of biomarkers based on MRI in neurological diseases.

Speaker: Helena Melero, PhD. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Medical Image Analysis and Biometry Laboratory, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

ChairAngel Torrado-Carvajal, RCC Fellow, PhD. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pain Neuroimaging Laboratory, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Sponsors: RCC, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging