Daphna Shohamy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology

Columbia University

https://psychology.columbia.edu/content/daphna-shohamy

The Learning Lab - http://shohamylab.psych.columbia.edu/index.php

Topic: How Memory Guides Value-Based Decisions

Abstract: Learning is central to adaptive behavior. From robots to humans, the ability to learn from experience turns a rigid response system into a flexible, adaptive one. How...

Laura Schulz, PhD

Patrick Cavanagh, PhD

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

Professor, Dartmouth College  ...

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...

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? In my...