Neuroscience Seminar Series for Rising Scholars: Loïc Labache, PhD (Avram Holmes’s lab)

“Multiscale Organization of Human Brain Lateralization: From Molecular Asymmetries to Cognitive Phenotypes”

Speaker: Loïc Labache, PhD
Postdoctoral Health AI Research Fellow, Dr. Avram Holmes’s lab

Date and Time: Monday, April 13, 2026, 12:00 PM

In-Person: Room 127, Staged Research Building (SRB), Busch Campus

Join via Zoom: Please email the host, Dr. Noelle Stiles (noelle.stiles@rutgers.edu), or check the CAHBIR Slack #General thread for the link

Abstract: Hemispheric specialization is a fundamental feature of human brain organization, yet its biological basis and variability remain unclear. Here, I combine multimodal imaging and transcriptomic data to show that cortical lateralization is supported by gradients in neurochemical and cellular architecture that define left-lateralized language and right-lateralized attention networks. Using Human Connectome Project data, I further identify distinct, heritable phenotypes of attentional lateralization and introduce a “crowding” framework capturing how language and attention co-lateralize across individuals. Together, these findings support a multiscale model in which hemispheric specialization reflects both biological constraints and flexible population-level organization.