The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has announced that Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, and Julia Sliwa, PhD, an investigator at the Brain and Spine Institute (ICM) in Paris, will receive this year’s Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Awards.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will honor two leading researchers who have made significant contributions to the advancement of women in neuroscience and two early-career researchers who have demonstrated great originality and creativity in their work.

Learn more about current Early Career Policy Ambassador (ECPA) Elena Kozina’ s research and advocacy projects. Explore the entire Meet the ECPA collection on Neuronline, SfN’s home for learning and discussion.

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Thank you for attending Neuroscience 2018! Instructions on how to claim CME credits and print a certificate can be found here.

Behavioral and neuroscientific studies have shown that watching a speaker's lip movements aids speech comprehension. Intriguingly, even when videos of speakers are presented silently, various cortical regions track auditory features, such as the envelope. Recently, we demonstrated that eye movements track low-level acoustic information when attentively listening to speech. In this study we investigated whether ocular speech tracking occurs during visual speech and how it influences cortical silent speech tracking. Furthermore, we compared the data of hearing individuals with congenitally deaf individuals, and those with acquired deafness or hearing loss (DHH; Deaf or hard of hearing) to assess how audiovisual listening experience and auditory deprivation (early vs. late onset) affects neural and ocular speech tracking during silent lip-reading. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we examined ocular and neural speech tracking of 75 participants observing silent videos of a speaker played forward and backwar...

As the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and central nervous system, SfN is a strong advocate of the research made possible by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

The meeting will be held at the McCormick Place Convention Center, 2301 S. Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, IL 60616.

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