Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Dr. Lexi Decker is visiting campus from MIT to deliver a special seminar in Mergenthaler 111 at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, February 12th - we hope to see you there! Dynamics of attention and memory formation across time and development Attention is a powerful driver of memory formation. Yet sustaining attention is a constant challenge, and […]