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 W. Buckholtz

Assistant 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.

Daniel L. Schacter

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

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

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)

Leah H. Somerville

Associate Professor

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

Department of Psychology

Executive Control