Dr Sarah FABER, Department of Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology, Postdoctoral Fellow in the faculty of ScienceSimon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
English seminar
Music listening is a sophisticated behaviour that employs numerous networks of brain regions. Because music remains enjoyable later in life, it is often used in clinical settings with those with neurodegeneration. However, much is still unknown about how music listening adapts to reconfigurations in brain network dynamics related to healthy aging. A further consideration is designing computational workflows capable of capturing and describing the properties of high dimensional datasets. This talk will present a series of studies examining dynamic brain network activity during music listening in healthy adults at fast and slow timescales. Network measures were analyzed with behavioural and stimulus data using a combination of hidden Markov modelling, multi-scale entropy, and partial least squares analysis. I will present age-, stimulus-, and task-related differences in network activity and discuss the implications of modelling naturalistic behaviour at different spatiotemporal scales with a particular focus on applicability for clinical research.