CBR Seminar Series: Einat Liebenthal
CBR Seminar Series: Einat Liebenthal, July 17, 2023
Title: Naturalistic approaches to studying verbal and nonverbal communication
Abstract: Naturalistic approaches have the potential to uncover the neural mechanisms underlying behavior in real world settings; however, confer the challenge of measuring behaviors of interest in little-controlled experimental conditions. In this talk, I will discuss our efforts in two areas of naturalistic study of verbal and nonverbal communication: 1) Developing a movie clip stimulus database designed for effective engagement of the distributed, multimodal neural networks thought to support social communication in real life. 2) Using natural language processing methods to characterize and quantify spoken language sampled in real world settings. I will include examples of clinical applications of naturalistic study of communication in neurology and psychiatry.
Bio:
Education
1990 BSc in Biology, Hebrew University
1993 MSc in Neuroscience, Hebrew University
1997 DSc in Neuroscience, Technion Israel Institute for Technology
Current Position
Research Associate at McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry
Areas of Interest
Language deficits in psychiatric disorders and language-targeted psychotherapeutic interventions