Engineering Human-Level Machine Theory of Mind Our very own Tianmin Shu will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Abstract: Despite our tremendous progress in AI, current AI systems, including large language models (LLMs), still cannot adequately understand humans and flexibly interact with humans in real-world settings. One of the key […]
Dimensions of visual representation Our very own Mick Bonner will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! A central challenge in studying the brain is that its computations are carried out in high dimensions—they rely on the coordinated interplay of immense populations of neurons. To make sense of high-dimensional […]
Jennifer Groh, a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Title and Abstract coming soon.
Perceptual Categorization and Perceptual Concepts Our very own E.J. Green will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! The idea that there is a distinction between perceiving and thinking is built into our commonsense conception of the mind, presupposed by longstanding philosophical debates, and enshrined in psychology textbooks. But […]
Movements and engagement in decision-making Anne Churchland, a Professor of Neurobiology at the UCLA Brain Research Institute, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Switching between cognitive states is a natural tendency, even for trained experts. To test how cognitive state impacts the relationship between neural activity and […]
A collicular map for touch-guided tongue control Dr. Brendan Ito will be visiting campus from NYU to deliver an early career colloquium lecture to the Psychological and Brain Sciences department on 4/2/25 at 3:30 pm in Mergenthaler 111. We hope to see you there! Accurate goal-directed behavior requires the sense of touch to be integrated […]
Anna Papafragou, a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! How the human mind represents events Humans are surprisingly adept at interpreting what is happening around them, even from a single glance. Beginning at infancy, we are able to recognize […]
What We Learn from Where We Live Neil Lewis, Jr., an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow. We're delighted to announce that Dr. Lewis's seminar has been co-sponsored by the SNF Agora Institute. The United States has […]
Karinna Rodriguez will be visiting campus from Florida International University to deliver an early career colloquium lecture to the Psychological and Brain Sciences department on 4/23/25 at 3:30 pm in Mergenthaler 111. We hope to see you there! Pupillometry as an indicator of cognitive effort in children's mental rotation tasks Mental rotation (MR) enables individuals […]
The Relationship between Sex Hormones and Neurocognition Dr. Erynn Christensen will be visiting campus from Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research to deliver an early career colloquium lecture to the Psychological and Brain Sciences department on 4/30/25 at 3:30 pm in Mergenthaler 111. We hope to see you there! A growing body of evidence shows that […]
Extremism, AI, Psychology, and Social Media: Studies in Understanding the Individual Online Jennifer Golbeck, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! This colloquium is jointly hosted between PBS and the JHU Department of Computer Science. The interplay between […]
Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning Alison Gopnik, a Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Learning about the causal structure of the world is a fundamental problem for […]