PBS Seminar Speaker series

Ames 234

Ames 234 PBS Graduate & Postdoctoral student presentation series PM & GBP presenting

Colloquium Speaker- E.J. Green

Hodson 213

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 […]

PBS Seminar Speaker series

Ames 234 PBS Graduate & Postdoctoral student presentation series KL & XL presenting

Colloquium Speaker- Anne Churchland

Mergenthaler 111 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, United States

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 […]

PBS Seminar Speaker Series

Ames 234 PBS Graduate & Postdoctoral student presentation series ST & MH presenting

PBS Special Seminar Caroline Robertson

Mergenthaler 111

Seeing Through Memory Systems How does memory shape our perception of the world around us? While the neural systems supporting high-level visual processing and memory are each relatively well understood, how they interact to give rise to memory-guided visual experience remains a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. In this talk, I will present a series […]

PBS Seminar Speaker series

Ames 234 PBS Graduate & Postdoctoral student presentation series ES & MK presenting

PBS Special Seminar Natalia Vélez

Olin 305

Dr. Natalia Vélez from Princeton University is visiting campus to deliver a special seminar in Olin 305 at 9:30 am on Monday, February 3rd. We hope to see you there! Thinking Collaboratively Since the cognitive revolution, psychologists have developed formal theories of cognition by thinking of the mind as a computer. This metaphor, however, is typically applied to individual […]

PBS Special Seminar Marina Dubova

Mergenthaler 111

Dr. Marina Dubova from the Santa Fe Institute will be delivering a talk in Mergenthaler 111 at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, February 5th - we hope to see you there! Carving nature at its joints: the double-edged sword of theory-driven discovery To understand and navigate our world, both individuals and scientific communities create simplifying representations, […]