Abstract
Neural entrainment is the phenomenon by which the brain synchronizes to the external environment, and fluctuations in excitability are actually reflected in behaviour, which suggests that neural entrainment is an efficient way to regulate attention. Using auditory stimuli, entrained activity cannot be distinguished from evoked activity. Noninvasive brain stimulation can be used as a tool to probe entrainment separately from evoked activity because it does not evoke neural responses that weren't present to begin with. In this talk, Molly Henry takes the audience on a journey through her research and the applications of her methods in improving understanding on neural entrainment.
Bio
Molly is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto. Molly Henry received her PhD from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and completed postdocs at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and Western University in London, Canada. She loves karaoke.