Cognition, Brain, & Behavior

Cognitive Science & Social Psychology Seminar Max Kleiman-Weiner ~ University of Washington, Assistant Professor Topic - TBA

Laurie Santos ~ Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology, Yale University Topic - TBA

Cognitive Science and Social Psychology Seminar Dr. Jeremy Wolfe ~ Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology, Harvard Medical School Title: How the !%# did I miss that? When and why do we ‘look but fail to see’? Abstract: Why don’t we see everything that...

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...

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...

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...

CBB Seminar ~ Arthur Le Pargneux , Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Cognitive Science Lab, (Cushman), Harvard University Title: Contractualist moral cognition: From fair divisions to the emergence of rules using agreement-based reasoning How do our moral...