Special seminar by Dr Rob Seymour

*This is zoom only, but you are warmly welcomed to zoom in together from the below listed venue, and share some light morning tea together at the end of the talk.*

Date and time: 09 May 2024, 9 to 11am

Talk location: Redmond Barry Building, Room 617

Light refreshments location: as above

Talk details:

"Developing Wearable (OPM) MEG for Naturalistic Neuroscience"

The talk will outline unique challenges facing OPMs in terms of interference; demonstrate that OPMs can measure neural activity during movement; and introduce our setup combining OPMs and virtual reality to study the encoding and retrieval of autobiographical memories.

Speaker bio:

Dr. Robert Seymour - Research Fellow, University College London.

My research uses magnetoencephalography to answer fundamental questions across cognitive and clinical neuroscience. My PhD used conventional SQUID-MEG to study brain connectivity during visual processing in autism spectrum disorder. During my postdoctoral research at UCL I have developed wearable MEG with the goal of conducting more naturalistic neuroimaging experiments involving movement. In the future, I aim to use wearable MEG to advance our understanding of natural social interactions, including in neurodiverse populations.