Past Events

September
29
Date
Fri September 29th 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall room 50

Joachim Vandekerckhove

Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Sciences, UC Irvine

Title: Some Bayesian and psychometric thoughts on the reproducibility crisis

July
13
Date
Thu July 13th 2017, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location
McCaw Hall at the Alumni Center

Science Help in the Classroom: Teaching and Using Science to Promote Student Well-Being, Kelly McGonigal

July
13
Date
Thu July 13th 2017, 9:15am - 10:15am
Location
McCaw Hall at the Alumni Center

Creating Critical Consumers of Information in the Introductory Psychology Classroom, Laura Namy

June
18
Date
Sun June 18th 2017, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Location
Ford Center Plaza

LocationFord Center Plaza

June
2
Date
Fri June 2nd 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall (Building 420), Room 050

Specialized Neural Circuits Supporting Adaptive Learning

May
26
Date
Fri May 26th 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall (Building 420), Room 050
A common neural basis of contrast and motion coherence perception in human visual cortex
 
Contrast and coherence are two fundamental visual…
May
19
Date
Fri May 19th 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall (Building 420), Room 050

FriSem - Sophie Bridgers, Psychology Department, Stanford University

May
17
Date
Wed May 17th 2017, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Jordan Hall 041

Department of Psychology, TBA (Colloquium), Joe Henrich, Harvard University

May
12
Date
Fri May 12th 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall Room 050

Sustained Attention and Working Memory Are Improved by Attention Regulation Training with Guided Experiential Skill ApplicationA central goal of cognitive training is to produce…

May
8
Date
Mon May 8th 2017, 5:10pm - 6:30pm
Location
Sloan Hall Math Building 380, Room 380-C

Jack Gallant, UC Berkeley

May
5
Date
Fri May 5th 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall (Building 420), Room 050
Title: Incentivized Inhibition
 
Abstract: The ability to withhold responses under high stakes, or “incentivized inhibition”, is…
April
28
Date
Fri April 28th 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall (Building 420), roof patio

FriSem started one week early this quarter giving us this opportunity to host an awesome social event.

April
24
Date
Mon April 24th 2017, 5:10pm - 6:30pm
Location
Sloan Hall Math Building 380, Room 380-C

Single-trial familiarity memories for objects and scenes

April
21
Date
Fri April 21st 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall (Building 420), Room 050
Katherine's Title: Learning word meanings from reference games: integrating semantics and pragmatics
 
Katherine's Abstract: …
April
19
Date
Wed April 19th 2017, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Jordan Hall 041

Wendy Mendes, University of California, San Francisco

 Affect contagion: Physiological covariation among strangers and close others

April
14
Date
Fri April 14th 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall (Building 420), Room 050
Chengxu Zhuang Title: Exploring goal-driven deep neural network models of sensory cortex
April
12
Date
Wed April 12th 2017, 3:45pm - 7:00pm
Location
Paul Brest Hall

Town Hall on Replication and Cumulative Science 

April
10
Date
Mon April 10th 2017, 5:10pm - 6:30pm
Location
Sloan Hall Math Building 380, Room 380-C

Parallel processing of rod and cone signals in retinal circuits

April
7
Date
Fri April 7th 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall (Building 420), Room 050

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…

March
17
Date
Fri March 17th 2017, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Jordan Hall (Building 420), Room 050

Abstract: Connectionist approaches involving neural network modeling have been broadly and successfully applied in many areas of cognitive psychology including…

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