Neuroscientist David R. Quiroga Martínez tries to understand how human brains can mentally hold and manipulate sounds, giving rise to our remarkable mind’s ear. 

Quiroga Martínez uses a combination of invasive (intracranial EEG) and non-invasive (M/EEG) techniques to register the brain’s activity while people listen and imagine musical sound sequences. He hopes these recordings will give us valuable clues about the neural mechanisms that allow auditory imagination, potentially leading to a better understanding of abnormal imagery in psychiatric disorders and applications in brain-computer interfaces.

Colombia-born Quiroga Martínez will discuss his research into memory and imagination, and his Latin American roots in a Zoom event at noon on Thursday, Sept. 26.

The event is part of a speaker series for Latin American Heritage Month, which is celebrated annually in the United States from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

Calendar Quiroga Martínez’s talk here, and visit LANA’s Latin American Heritage Month webpage for more events scheduled throughout the month.