Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

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 […]

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 […]

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! Title and Abstract coming soon.