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2023 Apr 18

Psychology Dept Colloquium - Lila Davachi, Ph.D. ~ Columbia University

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Basement Auditorium, B-1

Lila Davachi, Professor of Psychology, Columbia University, New York

TOPIC: "The wisdom of the unconscious mind: Offline reactivation consolidates, integrates and updates knowledge"

Davachi Memory Lab 

Encoding

How are memories formed? We have focused on understanding how the brain and, in particular, the medial temporal lobe (MTL) encodes our experiences....

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2023 Jan 31

Psychology Dept Colloquium - Xiaosi Gu, Ph.D. ~ Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Basement Auditorium, B-1

Dr. Xiaosi Gu, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Director of Center for Computational Psychiatry at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine.

Topic: A social neuroscience approach towards computational psychiatry

Dr. Xiaosi Gu is one of the foremost researchers in the area of computational psychiatry. Her research examines the neural and computational mechanisms underlying human beliefs, emotions, decision making, and social...

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2022 Nov 15

Psychology Dept Colloquium - Asifa Majid, Ph.D. ~ University of Oxford (UK)

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

NORTHWEST Building - B-101 (Basement Lecture Hall)

Asifa Majid, Ph.D., Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

2022-23 William Bentinck-Smith, Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Topic: "Nature and culture in the domain of perception"

Abstract: infants show evidence of color...

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2022 Oct 18

Psychology Colloquium - Raj Chetty, Ph.D. ~ Harvard University

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

NORTHWEST Building - B-101 (Basement Lecture Hall) - New Location

Raj Chetty, Ph.D ~ Harvard University, William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics, Department of Economics and Director of Opportunity Insights  

Topic: “Social Connections and Children's Chances of Rising out of Poverty: New Insights from Big Data”

Abstract: Children’s chances of earning more than their...

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