Colloquium Speaker- Carolyn Parkinson
Carolyn Parkinson, an Associate Professor of Psychology at UCLA will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Title and Abstract coming soon.
Carolyn Parkinson, an Associate Professor of Psychology at UCLA will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Title and Abstract coming soon.
Neural circuits underlying learned motor sequence execution Bence P. Ölveczky, a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Abstract: Our ability to sequence movements and actions in response to unpredictable environmental events underlies our rich and adaptive behavioral repertoire. Such flexible behaviors contrast […]
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Richly structured reward predictions in dopaminergic learning circuits Angela Langdon from the National Institute of Mental Health will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Theories from reinforcement learning have been highly influential for interpreting neural activity in the biological circuits critical for animal and human learning. Central among […]
Cognitive tools for uncovering useful abstractions Judith Fan, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! In the 17th century, the Cartesian coordinate system was groundbreaking. It exposed the unity between algebra and geometry, accelerating the development of the math that took […]
Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical plasticity within and across lifetimes. Leah Krubitzer, Professor of Psychology at UC-Davis, a will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! The neocortex is one of the most distinctive structures of the mammalian brain, yet also one of the most varied in terms of both size and […]
Elizabeth Spelke, a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Title and Abstract coming soon.
Caitlin Corona-Long's public presentation of her PhD Dissertation in Ames 234
Clarice Diebold's public presentation of her PhD Dissertation in Ames 234
Qiong Cao will be defending her dissertation on Wednesday, October 9th from 11-11:45am in Krieger 110.
Ames 234 PBS Graduate & Postdoctoral student presentation series GKP & Y-FL presenting
Seeing social interactions Our very own Leyla Isik will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Humans see the world in rich social detail. We effortlessly recognize not only objects and people in our environment, but also social interactions between people. The ability to perceive and understand others’ interactions […]