Cognitive Neuroscience

Elizabeth A. Phelps

Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience

Research Interests: Emotion, Learning, Memory, Decision Making, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Neuroscience, Affective Neuroscience, Neuroeconomics... Read more about Elizabeth A. Phelps

Phelps Lab

Northwest Laboratory 295.10, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

phelps@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-1128

2018 May 09

Colloquium - Matthew M. Botvinick, MD, PhD

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall - Room 1, Basement Auditorium

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...

2017 Oct 04

Colloquium - Daphna Shohamy, PhD

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall - Room 1, Basement Auditorium

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...

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...

Joshua D. Greene

Professor

Research interests: Moral judgment and decision-making; cooperation and conflict-resolution; the neural bases of high-level cognition (multimodal compositional semantics)

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Joshua D. Greene's Website

William James Hall 1470, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

jgreene@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3898

Jason P. Mitchell

Professor

Jason Mitchell received his BA/MS from Yale University (1997) and his PhD from Harvard University (2003).... Read more about Jason P. Mitchell

Mitchell Lab

William James Hall 1530, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

jason_mitchell@harvard.edu

p: 617-384-5875

Joshua W. Buckholtz

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Identifying brain circuit mechanisms for inter-individual variability in self-control; characterizing circuit-level pathomechanisms underlying self-control failure in impulse control disorders (e.g. psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, drug addiction); uncovering the cognitive and neural foundations for social norm-based cooperative behavior.

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Joshua W. Buckholtz's Website

Northwest Laboratory 295.01, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

harvard.snplab@gmail.com

p: 617-496-8588

Leah H. Somerville

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, 2019-20

Research interests: Adolescent brain development, emotion, motivation, self-regulation, decision making

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Somerville Lab

Northwest Laboratory 290.03, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

somerville@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-7513

Mina Cikara

Associate Professor

Research interests: Intergroup bias, emotion, cognitive and affective neuroscience

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Cikara Lab

William James Hall 1420, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

mcikara@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3819

Samuel J. Gershman

Associate Professor

Research interests: Learning, memory, decision making, computational neuroscience

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Samuel J. Gershman's Website

Gershman Lab

Northwest Laboratory 295.05, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

gershman@fas.harvard.edu

Talia Konkle

Assistant Professor

Research interests: Cognitive neuroscience, high-level vision, object representation, neural organization

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Konkle Lab

William James Hall 784
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

talia_konkle@harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3886

Randy L. Buckner

Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience

Randy Buckner received his BA in Psychology and his PhD in Neurosciences from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, and the Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Division and faculty of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School.... Read more about Randy L. Buckner

Buckner Lab

Northwest Laboratory 280.06, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

randy_buckner@harvard.edu

p: 617-384-8230

Daniel L. Schacter

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

Research interests: Cognitive neuroscience of memory, imagination, future thinking, creativity, and aging

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Schacter Lab

William James Hall 870, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

dls@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3855

Alfonso Caramazza

Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology

Research in my laboratory has principally focused on problems of lexical processing -- to understand the organization and processing structure of the lexical system and the nature of lexical representations.... Read more about Alfonso Caramazza

Caramazza Lab

William James Hall 930, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

caram@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3867