Lunch hour lectures repository Autumn 2008
- 7 October 2008: Is Human Evolution Over?
- 9 October: A Tale of Two Churches
- 14 October: How Does My Brain Hear Your Voice?
- 16 October: Voice of God
- 21 October: The Zen of Running
- 23 October: UrbanBuzz - Building Sustainable Communities
- 28 October: Darwin, Microbes and the Increasing Incidence of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases (UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS, WE WERE UNABLE TO RECORD THIS LECTURE AND IT WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE TO VIEW ONLINE)
- 30 October: What's New in Magnetic Healing?
- 11 November: The Northern Utopia: What is Distinctive About the Nordic Countries
- 13 November: Do We Need a British Bill of Rights and a Written Constitution?
- 18 November: TRIM5, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Red Queen
- 20 November: Rescuing the Past: Prayer Books, Parchment and Multi-Spectral Imaging
- 25 November: The Secret of Man's Red Fire
- 27 November: From 'Grey Goo' to Nanomedicine
- 2 December: Earthquake Vulnerability: An Engineer's Perspective With a Difference
- 4 December: Stemming Vision Loss With Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing
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14 October: How Does My Brain Hear Your Voice?
14 January 2008
Professor Sophie Scott – UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
The human voice is the most complex sound with which we routinely deal, and human speech is arguably unparalleled in nature. Nonetheless, our brains seem to effortlessly pull information from the speech stream, extracting the meaning of what we hear as well as information about the speaker, such as their mood and identity. How do our brains do this, and how does this interact with the brain systems for controlling our speech output? Can we learn anything by looking at how non-human primates process sound? And can we learn anything by looking at exceptional listeners, such as phoneticians and professional voice artists?
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