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Neuro Reading Group - Discussion of Pitcher & Ungerleider 2020

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Neuro Reading Group - Discussion of Pitcher & Ungerleider 2020

Linguistics Tuesday, November 2, 2021 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Marie Mount Hall, 3416J (Wimbledon)

Tuesday November 2, the Neuro Reading Group will discuss a short but exciting paper from Pitcher & Ungerleider 2020. Leslie Ungerleider was the pioneering cognitive neuroscientist who originally introduced the dual-stream theory of vision (Ungerleider & Mishkin, 1982). Shortly before her death she co-authored this paper proposing a third visual pathway specialized for social perception. This pathway goes through STS so there is now much speculation among language neuro people about whether this contributes to an evolutionary explanation for why language ends up in STS. 

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Tuesday November 2, the Neuro Reading Group will discuss a short but exciting paper from Pitcher & Ungerleider 2020. Leslie Ungerleider was the pioneering cognitive neuroscientist who originally introduced the dual-stream theory of vision (Ungerleider & Mishkin, 1982). Shortly before her death she co-authored this paper proposing a third visual pathway specialized for social perception. This pathway goes through STS so there is now much speculation among language neuro people about whether this contributes to an evolutionary explanation for why language ends up in STS. 

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