Cognition, Brain, & Behavior

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 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 02

Visiting Speaker: Taylor Webb, November 2, 12 noon

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

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

Taylor Webb  

Topic: The Relational Bottleneck and the Emergence of Cognitive Abstractions”

Abstract: Human cognition is characterized by a remarkable ability to transcend the specifics of limited experience to entertain highly general, abstract ideas. Efforts to explain this capacity have long fueled debates...

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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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2024 Mar 26

Psychology Department Colloquium ~ Yejin Choi, PhD, University of Washington

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

WIlliam James Hall - Basement Auditorium, B-1

Yejin Choi, Wissner-Slivka Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and Senior Research Director at the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

from  Time's 100 Most Influential in AI - October, 2023

Title: Possible Impossibilities, Impossible Possibilities, and Paradoxes

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2023 Oct 13

Harvest Day - October 13, 1 - 3 PM

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall - Basement Auditorium- B-1

The Psychology Department's annual Harvest Day is an informative, fun afternoon of presentations by the faculty describing their research. It will be held in William James Hall B-1 (Basement Auditorium) from 1:00 to 3:00 P.M., with a reception following in the lounge.  

Presenters include: Professors Steven Pinker, Sam Gershman, Elizabeth Spelke, Tomer Ullman, Jesse Snedeker, Fiery Cushman (presenting on behalf of the DIB Committee), Randy Buckner, and Matt Nock.

2024 Apr 23

Psychology Dept Colloquium ~ Paul Bloom, PhD, Yale University

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

William James Hall - Basement Auditorium - B-1

Paul Bloom, Ph.D., Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Yale University and Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

Topic: "PERVERSE ACTIONS"

Abstract: We occasionally act in ways that are wrong—morally or otherwise—at least partially because of the wrongness, as when we break a rule just for the sake of breaking it. I explore...

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