Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Marina Bedny

Talk Title: Language and sensory experience - insights into nature/nurture and human adaptability Abstract: How do nature and nurture interact during cortical development? Anthropologists have long pointed out that humans occupy a wide range of habitats. Most humans live in environments far different from those in which our brains evolved. Early sensory differences, like blindness and d/Deafness, are an example of niche diversity and provide a window into the mechanisms of human cortical specialization. I will discuss studies of language neurobiology across populations with diverse sensory exp