Past Events

  • 2023 Nov 30

    Visiting Speaker: Aran Nayebi

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall - 1st floor lecture hall, Room 105

    Aran Nayebi. Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

    Topic: “Bridging Neural Dynamics To Goal-Directed Behavior Across Timescales”

    A core feature of human cognition is our ability to perform goal-directed actions, and to flexibly adapt our plans to meaningfully achieve these goals in a changing environment. Crucially, these abilities are conserved across many species and...

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  • 2023 Nov 29

    Visiting Speaker: Karmel Choi ~ 4:30 PM

    4:30pm to 5:45pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall - 1st floor lecture hall, Room 105

    Karmel Choi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, HMS/MGH

    Topic:  “Risk, Resilience, and Prevention in Mental Health: A Data-Driven Perspective”

    “In an increasingly stressful world, how do we promote resilience and prevent psychopathology?” Depression and common stress-related disorders such as PTSD, as well as their consequences, represent a leading cause of disability and suffering across the lifespan. Dr. Choi will summarize insights from an integrative research program...

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  • 2023 Nov 16

    Visiting Speaker: Jenelle Feather

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall - 1st floor lecture hall, Room 105

    Jenelle Feather

    Topic: Successes and failures of machine learning models of sensory systems”

    The environment is full of rich sensory information. Our brain can parse this input, understand a scene, and learn from the resulting representations. The past decade has given rise to computational models that transform sensory inputs into representations useful for complex behaviors such as speech recognition or image classification. These models can...

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  • 2023 Nov 15

    Visiting Speaker: Adam Culbreth ~ 4:30 PM

    4:30pm to 5:45pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall - 1st floor lecture hall, Room 105

    Dr. Adam Culbreth ~ Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine

    Topic: “Etiology and Assessment of Motivational Impairment in People with Schizophrenia”

    Schizophrenia is a neuropsychiatric disorder with profound human and economic costs. Positive symptoms (e.g., hallucinations and delusions) are frequently thought of as the cardinal symptoms of schizophrenia. However, recent work has suggested that understanding the etiology of negative symptoms (including reductions in motivation and...

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  • 2023 Nov 14

    Social Lunch - Kirsten Morehouse, Harvard

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall, 1st floor Lecture hall, Room 105

    Kirsten Morehouse, PhD student, Harvard

    Topic: Recent discovery of a hidden peril of open science

    Description: I recently submitted a paper with Brian Nosek and Benedek Kurdi that may be broadly interesting to our social area. It explores an unintended consequence of the open data revolution: re-identification, or the ability to combine demographic information to reveal a person’s identity without direct identifiers (such as email addresses or IP addresses). For example, Sweeney (2000) demonstrated that just three variables from the United States Census...

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  • 2023 Nov 08

    Visiting Speaker: Henry Raffles Cowan ~ November 8

    4:30pm to 5:45pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall, 1st floor lecture hall, Room 105

    Henry Raffles Cowan

    Topic: “Narrative Self-Disturbance in the Development of Psychotic Disorders”

    In first-person accounts of mental illness, many individuals report that their sense of self has been “silenced”, “eradicated”, or “replace[d] with a black hole”. These experiences are often reported to be more distressing and impactful than clinical symptoms themselves, and models of recovery typically emphasize the importance of rebuilding a coherent sense of self. This presentation will examine disturbance to the narrative...

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  • 2023 Nov 07

    Visiting Speaker - David Klindt - Stanford University

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall, 1st floor lecture hall, Room 105

    David Klindt, PhD -  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stanford University, Machine Learning and Computational Neuroscience 

    “Natural Visual Intelligence – Learning, Inference and Generalisation of Visual Representations in Brains and Machines”

    How do animals make sense of the visual world...

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