Second-Year Project Talks

Date: 

Friday, September 22, 2023, 9:30am to 1:00pm

Location: 

WJH B1

 

Second Year Talks

Friday, September 22, 2023 | 9:30am-12:00pm | William James Hall B1

There will be a reception following the talks in the WJH Courtyard.

 

9:30am: Welcome and Introduction, Leah Somerville, Director of Graduate Studies

9:35am: Camille Phaneuf, Advisor: Leah Somerville, Reader: Fiery Cushman

     Characterizing Age-Related Change in Learning the Value of Cognitive Effort

9:50am: Yang Xiang, Advisor: Sam Gershman, Reader: Fiery Cushman

     Actual and counterfactual effort contribute to responsibility attributions in collaborative tasks

10:05am: William Orwig, Advisor: Daniel Schacter, Reader: Josh Greene

     The Language of Creativity: Evidence from Humans and Large Language Models

10:20am: Yiqiao Wang, Advisor: Liz Spelke, Reader: Susan Carey

     Young children’s representation of large exact numbers: A case study of the number five

10:35am: Break

10:50am: Jacob Prince, Advisor: Talia Konkle, Reader: George Alvarez

     A contrastive coding account of category selectivity in the ventral visual stream

11:05am: Taylor McGuire, Advisor: Matt Nock, Reader: Mark Hatzenbuehler

     Examining multidimensional discrimination, traumatic violence exposure in the media, racial trauma, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in a sample of diverse youth

11:20am: Fenil Doshi, Advisor: George Alvarez, Reader: Talia Konkle

     Cortical topographic motifs emerge in a self-organized map of object space

11:35am: Siqi Lin, Advisor: Alfonso Caramazza, Reader: Jason Mitchell

     Neural Dissociation and Lateralization of Mentalizing and Mental State Concepts

12:00pm: Reception, WJH Courtyard