Past Events
Town Hall on Replication and Cumulative Science
Parallel processing of rod and cone signals in retinal circuits
Abstract: Brains are paradigmatically information-processing systems, and this is often taken to mean that brains perform computation, and furthermore, that we can explain the brain's…
Abstract: Connectionist approaches involving neural network modeling have been broadly and successfully applied in many areas of cognitive psychology including…
Abstract: Direct Electrical stimulation (DES) of the brain has been performed for over 100 years, and although some might say it is a crude technique…
Title: Microstructural proliferation in human cortex is coupled with the development of face processing Abstract: How does cortical tissue change as brain function and…
TBD Department of Psychology - FriSem
Abstract: Since the earliest etchings onto cave walls were made 40,000 years ago in modern-day Spain and Indonesia, people have devised many ways to render their thoughts in visual form,…
Abstract: Social learning—the ability to learn from observing the decisions of others and their outcomes—is fundamental to human evolutionary and cultural success.
Abstract: The most widespread measures of human brain activity are the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal and surface field potential.
Seminar by Thackery Brown, Stanford University (Professor Anthony Wagner Lab)
Seminar by Judith Degen (Assistant Professor Noah Goodman Lab)
Seminar by Serge Dumoulin (Utrecht University)
Abstract: Conveying information in a false or indirect manner in consideration of listeners’ wants (i.e.
Abstract: There is increasing concern about statistical power in neuroimaging research. Critically, an underpowered study has poor predictive power.
Abstract: Higher brain function relies upon the ability to flexibly integrate information across specialized communities of brain regions, however it is unclear how this mechanism manifests over…
Abstract: Propelled by advances in biologically inspired computer vision and artificial intelligence, the past five years have seen significant progress in using deep neural…
2016 Psychology Department Staff Retreat