Título: Tracing axon bundles non-invasively in human brain: tractography.

Conferenciante: Dr. Liu Mengxing, postdoctoral researcher at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL).

Fecha y hora: miércoles 31 de mayo a las 12.30h.

Lugar: Seminario 4

Biosketch: Dr. Liu Mengxing is a postdoctoral researcher at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL). His research focuses on the structural architecture of thalamocortical connections in the human brain and their contributions to complex cognitive functions, such as language, working memory, and decision-making. Dr. Liu earned his B.S. in Psychology from Liaoning Normal University, China, and his M.S. in Experimental Psychology from Shaanxi Normal University, China. He received his Ph.D. (cum laude) in Cognitive Neuroscience from the BCBL in 2022, where he trained with Dr. Paz-Alonso. During his Ph.D. training, he developed methodologies to reconstruct human thalamic white-matter tracts and investigated their involvement in different human language systems using tractography techniques to non-invasively reconstruct first-order relay human thalamic white-matter tracts using diffusion MRI. Dr. Liu also proposed a protocol for public use and demonstrated, using functional MRI, that the activity of visual and auditory thalamus can be modulated depending on the language tasks being performed. Currently, he continues his research at the BCBL as a postdoctoral researcher.