Hyeong-Dong Park, Ph.D.
May 12(Thu) - May 12(Thu), 2022
12PM
Online zoom (ID: 728-142-6028)
Neuro@noon Seminar
Date: 12:00 PM, Thursday, May 12th
Speaker: Hyeong-Dong Park, Ph.D.
(Institute of Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Taipei Medical Univ.)
Title: Brain-body interactions in perception and action
Abstract: Do interactions between the brain and body (e.g., heart and lung) play a functional role in human cognition, in particular conscious experiences? This is the central question of my research career. In this talk I will introduce my previous research suggesting that 1) neural responses to heartbeats (i.e., heartbeat-evoked brain potentials) could predict conscious visual perception, using MEG (Park et al. Nature Neuroscience. 2014); 2) experimentally induced changes in self-consciousness are associated with heartbeat- evoked brain potentials, using virtual reality technology combined with scalp EEG (Park et al. Journal of Neuroscience. 2016); 3) voluntary action and cortical readiness potentials are coupled with the breathing system (Park et al. Nature Communications. 2020). Then, potential future projects and collaborations will be discussed.