Early Career Colloquium (ECC) Speaker- Jessica Glazier
Krieger 205Jessica Glazier, PhD from the Psychology department at Northeastern University will be giving an early career colloquium seminar at 4:00 pm today in MARYLAND 110! Q&A to follow Inclusive gender cognition: exploring gender categorization with diverse gender identities Research on gender categorization has mostly approached gender as a binary construct, examining the perceptions of and […]
Colloquium Speaker- Dr. Carlos Ponce
Carlos Ponce, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School will be giving a Colloquium talk at 4:00 pm in Krieger 205 with a Q&A to follow! Tuning landscapes of the ventral stream Primates can reason visually about images with different statistical properties, such as photographs, art, and even computer-generated scenes. However, it is […]
Colloquium Speaker- Dr. Christopher Harvey
Krieger 205Christopher Harvey, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard University will be giving a PBS Colloquium Talk at 4:00 today with a Q&A to follow! Cortical circuits for spatial navigation My lab seeks to understand how the mammalian brain performs the computations that underlie cognitive functions, with a focus on spatial navigation, decision-making, and short-term memory. […]
Colloquium Speaker- Dr. Dmitriy Aronov
Krieger 205Dmitriy Aronov, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University will be giving a Colloquium talk at 4:00 pm with a Q&A to follow! Using food-caching birds to study the neuroscience of episodic memory Throughout each day the brain captures snapshots of distinct experiences, forming episodic memories that often last a lifetime. This function depends on […]
Colloquium Speaker- Dr. Annegret Falkner
Krieger 205Annegret Falkner, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Princeton University will be giving a Colloquium talk at 4:00 pm with a Q&A to follow! Mapping the neural dynamics of social dominance and defeat Social experiences can have lasting changes on behavior and affective state. In particular, repeated wins and losses during fighting can facilitate and suppress […]
Early Career Colloquium (ECC) Speaker- Maria J. Olvera Caltzontzin
Krieger 205Maria J. Olvera Caltzontzin, PhD from the Laboratory of Integrative Neural Circuits and Behaviors at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience will be giving an early career colloquium seminar at 4:00 pm today in Krieger 205! Q&A to follow Insular Cortex Nos1 Neurons Regulate Non-Homeostatic Feeding Behavior Although homeostatic feeding is vital for survival, humans […]
Early Career Colloquium (ECC) Speaker: Abdul-Rahim Deeb
Krieger 205Abdul-Rahim Deeb from the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University will be giving an early career colloquium seminar at 4:00 pm today in Krieger 205! Q&A to follow Perception of Dynamics Over Time Without special training or feedback, observers can make accurate judgements concerning the relative mass of two colliding objects. […]
Daniel Kish Lecture: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Bat
Daniel Kish, a blind man who uses echolocation to sense his surrounding and the President of Visioneers, will give a public lecture on March 9, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. in Shaffer Hall 3. Daniel Kish is an engaging speaker, and he travels the world to teach blind children and adults to use echolocation and other […]
Colloquium Speaker- Dr. Matthew Botvinick
Krieger 205Wednesday, March 15th, 2022 Matthew Botvinick, PhD, Director of Neuroscience Research at Stanford University will be giving a Colloquium talk at 4:00 pm with a Q&A to follow! A unified model of dual-process control Dual-process theories play a central role in both psychology and neuroscience, figuring prominently in fields ranging from executive control to reward-based […]
Colloquium Speaker- Dr. Chris Honey
Krieger 205Our very own Dr. Chris Honey will be giving a Colloquium Seminar at 4:00 pm today, with a Q+A to follow! Timescales of Context in the Mind and Brain I study how people integrate information over time, as they seek to understand their environment and learn from it. Temporal integration is ubiquitous, because our world […]