Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 Marisa Carrasco, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at New York University will be giving a Colloquium talk at 4:00 pm with a Q&A to follow! How spatial attention shapes perception Visual attention is essential for visual perception. I will illustrate how endogenous (voluntary) and exogenous (involuntary) covert attention differentially modulate […]
Katherine McAuliffe, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology at Boston College will be giving a Colloquium talk in Krieger 205 at 4:00 pm with a Q&A to follow! The influence of norms on fairness in childhood Fairness is a cornerstone of human cooperation, yet the norms that govern what constitutes a fair act vary across societies. […]
Athena Akrami, PhD, Professor at the University College of London will be giving a Colloquium talk at 4:00 pm with a Q+A to follow! Learning and exploiting sensory statistics in decision making: The world around us is complex, but at the same time full of meaningful regularities. We can detect, learn and exploit these regularities […]
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Robert Hampton, a Professor of Psychology at Emory University will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Metacognition and memory systems in monkeys It is a challenge to determine what is going on in another mind. This challenge is arguably greater when seeking information about the minds of nonverbal […]
Daniela Vallentin, a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Neural mechanisms of vocal learning and production in songbirds During conversations we rapidly switch between listening and speaking which often requires withholding or delaying our speech in […]
Andreas Nieder, a Professor of Animal Physiology at the University of Tuebingen will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Number processing neurons in the brains of humans, monkeys, and crows Our scientifically and technically advanced culture would not exist without an understanding of numbers, the foundations of which are […]
Vyash Puliyadi public presentation of his PhD Dissertation in Krieger 347
Growing up in Science is a worldwide set of conversations about the lived experiences of scientists. In 2014, it was started by Wei Ji Ma as a monthly mentorship series at New York University. In a typical event, one faculty member shares their life story, with a focus on struggles, failures, doubts, detours, and weaknesses. […]
Title: The cognitive science of multi-step planning Weiji Ma, a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at NYU will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Abstract: As DeepMind has revolutionized the AI of planning in combinatorially large problems, our lack of understanding of how humans plan in such […]
Yun-Fei Liu will be defending his dissertation on Tuesday, December 12th from 1-2pm in Ames 217. Ames 217
Policy compression: the quest for simplicity in action selection Sam Gershman, a Professor of Psychology at Harvard will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! The brain has evolved to produce a diversity of behaviors under stringent computational resource constraints. Given this limited capacity, how do biological agents balance […]