Language Science Talks: Dr. Edward Chang, Toward a speech neuroprosthetic (Rescheduled)

March 25, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall

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This talk has been rescheduled from March 2020.

Abstract: Speaking is a unique and defining human behavior. Over the past decade, we have focused on deciphering the basic neural code that underlies our ability to speak fluently.

During speech production, vocal tract movement gestures for all speech sounds are encoded by highly specialized neural activity, organized as a map, in the human speech motor cortex.  A major effort is now underway to translate these findings towards building an articulatory-based speech neuroprosthetic device for people who cannot communicate.

Dr. Edward Chang, Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, will present this Language Science Talks event as part of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Research Neuroscience Research Colloquium series on March 25th, from 11:00am - 12:00pm.

Everyone is welcome to attend this event, co-hosted by the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Research and the UBC Language Sciences Initiative. If you are unable to attend in person, there is an option to tune-in virtually via Zoom. 

Zoom option if unable to attend in person:

  • Zoom link here (then click on “Join a meeting”)
  • Meeting ID: 99412 188589
  • Passcode: 188589

We ask that in-person attendees refrain from wearing perfumes and scented soaps to prevent causing allergic reactions for other attendees. Click here for a map and directions to the venue via Google.

If you require an accessibility-related measure (e.g.: sign language interpretation, captioning, accessible parking, or any other accessibility-related measure), please email language.sciences@ubc.ca.


First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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