Cognition, Brain, & Behavior

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...

Ashwini Ashokkumar Assistant Professor of Psychology, NYU Topic ~ The Psychological Drivers and Effects of Political Discourse What are the individual and collective psychological processes that shape political discourse? Drawing on evidence from natural...

Thomas Talhelm, Associate Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business The Rice Theory: Random Assignment Past, Manspreading Present, and a Less Cultural Future? The rice theory is the idea that the irrigation systems...

Felipe de Brigard (Duke University) Topic: Memory and forgiveness Victims sometimes forgive the perpetrators of past wrongdoings, either to repair a relationship or simply to move on. After forgiving, however, victims typically still remember what...