CBB Seminar | Social Seminar

Social Seminar Austin van Loon ~ Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management Title ~ Using LLMs as a Source of Behavioral Data Generative AI has prompted a striking proposal for the social sciences: replace human subjects with simulated ones. The...

CBB Seminar Lynn K.A. Sörensen ~ Post-doctoral Fellow, McGovern Institute for Brain Research (DiCarlo Group), MIT How does the primate brain coordinate plasticity when learning to discriminate new objects? In this talk, I will present results from a...

CBB Seminar Michael Ferguson ~ Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University Title - From Fundamentalism to Mysticism: A Brain Network for Self-Transcendence and Its Subdomains Self-transcendence, the temporary dissolution of self...

CBB Seminar Ilker Yildirim ~ Asst. Professor of Psychology, Cognitive and Neural Computation Lab Yale University Title - How to model the mind simultaneously across the computational, algorithmic, and neural levels In the history of neuroscience and...

Social Seminar Jason Mitchell ~ Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University Title - " On the Origin of Human Prosociality ." ***CBB and Social talks this semester will be meet on Thursdays, 12:00-1:15pm at NORTHWEST Bldg, B101 AUDITORIUM (due...

SOCIAL Seminar Rebecca Saxe ~ John W. Jarve (1978) Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience: Associate Dean of Science at MIT. Title - TBA ***CBB and Social talks this semester will be meet on Thursdays, 12:00-1:15pm at NORTHWEST Bldg, B101 AUDITORIUM (due to...

CBB Seminar Melissa Kibbe ~ Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University Title - Early representations of possible objects Much research has examined early representations of objects that arise from visual input (what we might...

CBB Seminar Xavier Roberts-Gaal ~ Laboratory for Social Cognitive Science (Cushman) Title - The Cultural Evolution of Cognitive Scaffolds Culture equips us with continually-expanding adaptive capabilities that no one person could reinvent from scratch...

Social Seminar Jillian Jordan ~ Assistant Professor of Business Administration Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, Harvard Business School Title: How do reputation motives shape (or warp) moralistic punishment? Abstract: A key feature of human...

CBB Seminar Naomi Caselli ~ Associate Professor, Director, BU AI & Education Initiative; BU Deaf Center, Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, Boston University Beyond Arbitrariness: What Iconicity Reveals About Language Learning and Use...