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SCIPS Workshop: Finding A Post-Doc

February 19, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

The mission of SCIPS is to support and enhance the professional development of trainees in psychological sciences, and in related disciplines in the neural and behavioral sciences. Trainees have the opportunity to ask questions of rotating panels of student, post-doc, and faculty experts. February’s topic is: Finding A Post-Doc.   Come hungry! We will have […]

Tim Gentner Department of Psychology University of California, San Diego   Natural Acoustic Signals and their Neural Representation   Acoustic communication signals underlie a wide range of perceptual and cognitive behaviors, and typically drive strong, selective neuronal responses in higher cortical regions. As such, they provide attractive targets for studying the neural mechanisms of real-world […]

Susan Goldin-Meadow Department of Psychology University of Chicago   The Resilience of Language and Gesture   Gesture is versatile in form and function.  Under certain circumstances, gesture can substitute for speech, and when it does, it embodies the properties of language that children themselves bring to language learning, and underscores the resilience of language itself. […]

Talia Konkle Department of Psychology Harvard University   The shape of things and the organization of object-responsive cortex   When we look at the world, we effortlessly recognize the objects around us and can bring to mind a wealth of knowledge about their properties. In part 1, I’ll present evidence that neural responses to objects […]

The mission of SCIPS is to support and enhance the professional development of trainees in psychological sciences, and in related disciplines in the neural and behavioral sciences. Trainees have the opportunity to ask questions of rotating panels of student, post-doc, and faculty experts. March’s topic is: How to write a successful research grant.   Refreshments […]