Neuroclub 2025 Seminar 4

A Leeds Neuroscience Research monthly seminar series to showcase and discuss the exciting research generated across our community

Supported by the British Neuroscience Association

Alongside pizzas, this week we have:

Ioannis Delis: "Neurocomputational characterisation of multisensory decision-making in the human brain"

Ioannis Delis’s research aims to leverage the power of data to uncover the neural mechanisms that humans use to process sensory information and make decisions that ultimately produce effective actions. To this end, he develops computational models of large-scale neurobiological and behavioural signals to answer questions about sensory-motor function and apply the findings in the development biologically-inspired technology. 

In this talk, he will offer a neurocomputational characterisation of multisensory decision-making in the human brain. He will present a set of experiments in which brain activity was recorded using electroencephalography (EEG) while humans performed perceptual choice tasks involving the processing of sensory evidence from different modalities. He will then outline a neurally-informed modelling approach that quantifies interactions between sensory representations in the human brain and ultimately dissects the neural processes involved in decision formation. 

Emily Reader-Harris: “Vestibular system and adaptive motor control”

Emily is a lecturer in neuroscience studying neural circuits for adaptive motor control, particularly those controlling walking and balance. She uses anatomical, electrophysiological and in-vivo behavioural techniques to understand the adaptation of motor outputs and how vestibular sensory information might be integrated into ongoing commands for locomotion.