Past Events

Tobi Gerstenberg, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Dr. Robert Hawkins, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Title: Language in social interaction: Weaving together cognition and culture

Multi-disciplinary insights into language processing 

Keynote speaker Jay McClelland, Stanford University

A special joint seminar on language processing: The Linguistics Colloquium and Psychology CogNeuro “FriSem” programming.

Hongjing Lu, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UCLA

Title: Seeing structure: From visual perception to reasoning

Admit Week Lightning Talks

Innate organization of white matter connectivity

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

Title: Learning representations of complex meaning in the human brain

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

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

Casey Brown, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

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

Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley

Title: A Science of Awe

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

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

Panel discussion about Recovery from Trauma in Times of Conflict

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

Russ Poldrack, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

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

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

Title:  Why Boredom is interesting

Shaunak Bhandarkar, Undergraduate with Professor Jay McClelland

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