Damien Fair, PA-C, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Pediatrics ~ University of Minnesota

Redleaf Endowed Director, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain

Professor, Institute of Child Development College of Education and Human Development 

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Yael Niv, Ph.D, Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience

Princeton Psychology Department and Princeton Neuroscience Institute

CoDirector ~ Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Neuropsychiatry (CCNP)

https://pni.princeton.edu/faculty/yael-niv

https://nivlab.princeton.edu/

Topic: Carving the world into useful task representations

In recent years ideas from the computational field of reinforcement learning have revolutionized the...

Psychology Colloquium - Linda B. Smith, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University Bloomington

https://psych.indiana.edu/directory/faculty/smith-linda.html

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Michael. L Platt, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 

James S. Riepe University Professor

https://psychology.sas.upenn.edu/people/michael-l-platt

http://plattlabs.rocks

Topic: "Climate Change and the Social Brain"

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Matthew M. Botvinick, MD, PhD

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=Botvinick&btnG=

deepmind.com

Director of Neuroscience Research, Google DeepMind, London, UK
Honorary Professor, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London...

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...

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...