Past Events

March
13
Date
Wed March 13th 2024, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, Room 041

Dr. Leila Wehbe, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Learning representations of complex meaning in the human brain

March
8
Date
Fri March 8th 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Lynde Folsom, Graduate student, Department of Psychology with Professor Russell Poldrack

March
1
Date
Fri March 1st 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Industry Alumni Panel: Andrew Lampinen + Ian Eisenberg (DeepMind, Credo AI)

February
28
Date
Wed February 28th 2024, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 041

Casey Brown, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

February
23
Date
Fri February 23rd 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Erik Brockbank, Postdoc with Assistant Professor of Psychology, Tobias Gerstenberg, Stanford University

February
21
Date
Wed February 21st 2024, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 041

Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley

Title: A Science of Awe

February
16
Date
Fri February 16th 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 370, Room 370

Julian Jara-Ettinger,  Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, Yale University

February
9
Date
Fri February 9th 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Andrew Nam, Graduate student with Professor Jay McClelland, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

February
7
Date
Wed February 7th 2024, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, room 041

Panel discussion about Recovery from Trauma in Times of Conflict

February
2
Date
Fri February 2nd 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Alvin Tan,  PhD student with Professor Michael Frank, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

January
26
Date
Fri January 26th 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Russ Poldrack, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Title: AI-assisted coding: Experiments with GPT-4

January
24
Date
Wed January 24th 2024, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 041

Dr. Erin Westgate, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Florida

Title:  Why Boredom is interesting

January
19
Date
Fri January 19th 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Shaunak Bhandarkar, Undergraduate with Professor Jay McClelland

January
17
Date
Wed January 17th 2024, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 041

Shankar Vedantam,  Host and creator of Hidden Brain and The Hidden Brain podcast

December
6
Date
Wed December 6th 2023, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
The McCullough Building, Room 115

Evelina (Ev) Fedorenko, Middleton CD Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT

December
1
Date
Fri December 1st 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Josh Wilson, a 3rd-year Psychology Student, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

November
17
Date
Fri November 17th 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Michael Frank, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Title: Large language models as cognitive models? 

November
10
Date
Fri November 10th 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Satchel Grant, Ph.D. student with Professor Jay McClelland, Department of Psychology, Stanford University 

November
8
Date
Wed November 8th 2023, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
McCullough Building, Room 115, followed by a reception in Psychology Lounge.

Alex Shaw, Ph.D., Associate Professor, the Department of Psychology, the University of Chicago

November
3
Date
Fri November 3rd 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, Room 041

Steve Piantadosi, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley

Title: Towards a formal foundation for cognitive science