Cognition, Brain, & Behavior

2017 Mar 22

Colloquium - Laura Schulz PhD

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall - Room 1, Basement Auditorium

Laura Schulz, PhD

Associate Professor of Cognitive Science

Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2016 Nov 09

Colloquium - Patrick Cavanagh, PhD

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall - Room 1, Basement Auditorium

Patrick Cavanagh, PhD

Professor, Université Paris Descartes http://cavlab.net

Professor, Dartmouth College ...

2017 Apr 26

Colloquium - Russell Poldrack, PhD

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall - Room 1, Basement Auditorium

Russell Poldrack, PhD

Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology

Stanford University

https://psychology.stanford.edu/node/3229

https://poldracklab.stanford.edu/

Topic: The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience

Abstract: Cognitive neuroscience has witnessed two decades of rapid growth, thanks in large part to the continued development of fMRI methods. In my talk, I will question what this work has told us about brain function, and will propose that cognitive neuroscience needs to change in at least...

2016 Nov 02

Colloquium - Jenny Saffran, PhD

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall - Room 1, Basement Auditorium

Jenny Saffran, PhD

Professor of Psychology

University of Wisconsin - Madison

https://www.waisman.wisc.edu/pi-Saffran-Jenny.htm

Topic : Building a lexicon

Abstract:

Words are bundles of meanings and sounds (or signs). As mature language users, we have sophisticated knowledge about how words work, both on their own and as part of a lexicon. How does that knowledge emerge?...

Leah Somerville wins mentoring award

April 13, 2016

Assistant Professor Leah Somerville has been selected by the Graduate Student Council to win the Everett Mendelssohn Excellence in Mentoring Award.

Yaoda Xu Article in Nature Neuroscience

December 1, 2015

Recent studies have provided conflicting accounts regarding where in the human brain visual short-term memory (VSTM) content is stored, with strong univariate fMRI responses being reported in superior intraparietal sulcus (IPS), but robust multivariate decoding being reported in occipital cortex. Given the continuous influx of information in everyday vision, VSTM storage under distraction is often required. We found that neither distractor presence nor predictability during the memory delay affected behavioral performance. Similarly, superior IPS exhibited consistent decoding of VSTM...

Pinpointing Punishment: Joshua Buckholtz Featured in Harvard Gazette

October 29, 2015

Harvard Assistant Professor of Psychology Joshua Buckholtz explains how a brain region called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex coordinates third-party punishment decisions of the type made by judges and juries. The findings were released in a paper co-authored by Buckholtz and René Marois of Vanderbilt University.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/pinpointing-punishment/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10.29.2015%20(1)

The Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science

October 15, 2015

In May of this year, the creation of a new award, The Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science, was announced by the Vision Sciences Society and named after Psychology Chair Ken Nakayama.

http://www.visionsciences.org/ken-nakayama-award/

Greene J. Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)science Matters for Ethics. Ethics. 2014;124 (4) :695-726.

beyond-point-and-shoot-morality.pdf

Greene J, Frankland SM. An Architecture for Encoding Sentence Meaning in Left Mid-Superior Temporal Cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 2015.

Greene J, Shenhav A. Integrative Moral Judgment: Dissociating the Roles of the Amygdala and the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 2014;34 (13) :4741-4749.

integrative-moral-judgment.pdf

Greene J, Shariff AF, Clark CJ, R.F. Baumeister, Luguri J, Vohs KD, Karremans JC. Free Will and Punishment: A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution. Psychological Science. 2014.

free-will-and-punishment.pdf

Greene J, Abe N. Response to Anticipated Reward in the Nucleus Accumbens Predicts Behavior in an Independent Test of Honesty. Journal of Neuroscience [Internet]. 2014;34 (32) :10564-10572. Publisher's Version

response-to-anticipated-reward-in-the-nucleus-accumbens-predicts-behavior-in-an-independent-test-of-honesty.pdf

Incoming Assistant Professor Samuel Gershman has been awarded the Division 6 Clever Systems Early Career Investigator Award from the American Psychological Association.

August 14, 2015

This award identifies an early career psychologist who has made substantial contributions to the fields of comparative psychology and/or behavioral neuroscience, recognizing his work on mathematical modeling, reward processing and brain mechanisms.

Konkle T, Caramazza A. Tripartite Organization of the Ventral Stream by Animacy and Object Size. Journal of Neuroscience. 2013;33 (25) :10235-42.

Department of Psychology

Cognition, Brain, & Behavior

Colloquium - Laura Schulz PhD

Location:

Colloquium - Patrick Cavanagh, PhD

Location:

Colloquium - Russell Poldrack, PhD

Location:

Colloquium - Jenny Saffran, PhD

Location:

Leah Somerville wins mentoring award

Yaoda Xu Article in Nature Neuroscience

Pinpointing Punishment: Joshua Buckholtz Featured in Harvard Gazette

The Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science

Incoming Assistant Professor Samuel Gershman has been awarded the Division 6 Clever Systems Early Career Investigator Award from the American Psychological Association.

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