MindCORE Seminar Archive
Fall 2023
Sep 8 Maiken Scott, WHYY: “Why Talking About Science Matters (and How to Do it Well)”
Sep 15 Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University: “The Narrative Brain”
Sep 22 Vlad Ayzenberg, MindCORE postdoc: “Early developing mechanisms underlying visual object categorization”
Sep 29 Marlyse Baptista, University of Pennsylvania: “The Founder Principle: In search of long-lasting linguistic imprints in Creole emergence”
Oct 6 Falk Lieder, UCLA: “Improving Decision-Making”
Oct 20 Mick Bonner, Johns Hopkins: “A high-dimensional view of computational neuroscience”
Oct 27 MindCORE/SCEW: Catherine Sheard, University of Aberdeen: “Phylogenetic trees and cultural evolution”
Nov 3 Emily Perkins, MindCORE postdoc: “A biopsychosocial perspective on the development of conduct problems”
Diego Reinero, MindCORE postdoc: “ Malleable Moral Minds”
Nov 10 MindCORE/DDDI: Andrew Hein, Cornell University: “Behavioral algorithms: searching for principles of flexible, robust behavior in the natural world”
Nov 17 Sarah Robins, Purdue University: “The Engram Renaissance”
Dec 1 Taraz Lee, University of Michigan: “Cognition, Control, and Action: the multifaceted interplay between cognitive and motor systems”
Dec 8 MindCORE/PCfN: Colin Ellard, University of Waterloo: “Messiness as the wellspring of freedom and autonomy in cities: Studies in urban psychology”
Spring 2023
Jan 27 Mariam Aly, Columbia University: “How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by attention”
Feb 3 Dylan Gee, Yale University: “Early Experiences and Brain Development: Leveraging Developmental Neuroscience to Promote Youth Mental Health”
Feb 10 MindCORE/CNI seminar: Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington: “Variability, learning and robustness in birdsong”
Feb 17 Jared Medina, University of Delaware: “Touch, Embodiment and Plasticity: Understanding Body Representations”
Feb 24 Jennifer Morton, University of Pennsylvania: “Interpreting Obstacles”
Mar 3 MindCORE/CNI seminar: Marlene Cohen, University of Chicago: “Feature interference: a neuronal population hypothesis about limits on cognition”
Mar 17 Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Yale University: “Criminal responsibility and psychopathy: Using psychological science to challenge the legal conception of responsibility”
Mar 24 Lauren Ross, University of California, Irvine: “Causal Varieties in Science”
Mar 31 25th Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture: Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge: “Ways of Thinking: From Crows to Children and Back Again”
Apr 7 Tomáš Jagelka, University of Bonn: “Accounting for Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits”
Apr 14 Chandra Sripada, University of Michigan: “All Mental Disorders Involve Systematic Misrepresentation of Value: Mental Illness from a Neuroeconomic Point of View”
Apr 21 Corlett Wood, University of Pennsylvania: “Why is a plant biologist giving a MindCORE seminar? Cooperation, conflict, and crosstalk in host-microbe interactions”
Fall 2022
Sep 16 Vishnu “Deepu” Murty, Temple University: “Threat-related arousal biases the structure and utility of episodic memory”
Sep 23 Sam Clarke, MindCORE postdoc: “The number sense represents number”
Sami Yousif, MindCORE postdoc: “Redundancy and reducibility in the formats of spatial representations”
Sep 30 MindCORE/ILST seminar: Terry Regier, UC Berkeley: “Semantic categories in computational perspective”
Oct 28 Dwight Kravitz, GWU: “Closing the loop between human neurophysiology and behavior”
Nov 4 MindCORE/SCEW seminar: Jennifer Culbertson, University of Edinburgh: “Linking cognitive biases to language universals”
Nov 11 MindCORE/brainSTIM seminar: Aaron Boes, University of Iowa: “Brain lesions as a window into the mind”
Nov 18 MindCORE/PCfN seminar: Ellen Winner, Boston College: “The Child as Artist: Claims and Counter Claims”
Dec 2 Catherine Crockford, CNRS: “The patterning and ontogeny of chimpanzee vocal sequences – and brain pathways”
Dec 9 Theresa Desrochers, Brown University: “Cognitive Sequences: Parallel Cross-Species Dynamics in Frontal Neocortex”
Spring 2022
Jan 28 Janice Chen, Johns Hopkins: “Brain Dynamics Underlying Memory for Continuous Natural Events”
Feb 4 Michael Frank, Stanford: “Bigger data about smaller people: Investigating children’s language learning at scale”
Feb 11 Zhenghan Qi, Northeastern: “Addressing individual differences in language learning: contribution of statistical learning, social cognition, and prediction”
Feb 18 Avram Holmes, Yale: “Multi-scale convergence of functional imaging and genomic signatures of psychiatric illness risk”
Feb 25 Anna Konova, Rutgers: “Addiction states as dynamic changes in valuation”
Mar 4 Mirta Galesic, Santa Fe Institute: “Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation”
Mar 18 Tyler Knowlton, MindCORE Fellow: “Each and every meaning explained”
Linda Chang, MindCORE Fellow: “Quantification Myopia”
Mar 25 Alvin Grissom II, Haverford College: “Computational Approaches to Sentence-final Verb Prediction and What We Can Learn from Counterintuitive Errors in Machine Learning”
Apr 1 Jerome Sallet, Oxford: “On the evolutionary roots of human social cognition”
Apr 8 24th Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture – Cynthia Dwork, Harvard: “Fairness, Randomness, and the Crystal Ball”
Apr 15 Michael Lee, UC Irvine: “Using cognitive models to understand how semantic memory changes with impairment”
Apr 22 Bradley Love, University College London: “Process models to understand mind and brain”
Apr 29 Philippe Schlenker, CNS: “Combining Logic and Iconicity in Sign Language Semantics”
Spring 2021
Feb 19 Andy Tan, UPenn: “Advancing Communication Science to Address Tobacco-Related Health Disparities”
Feb 26 Nicole Holliday, UPenn, “Kamala Harris and the Construction of Complex Ethnolinguistic Political Identity”
Mar 5 Jessie Sun, UPenn, “Personality Evaluated: What Do Other People Really Think of You?”
Mar 12 Jon Freeman, NYU: “TA domain-general dynamic framework for social perception”
Mar 19 Tirin Moore, Stanford : “Robust Encoding of Abstract Rules by Distinct Neuronal Populations in Primate Visual Cortex”
Mar 26 Naomi Leonard, Princeton: “Stability-Flexibility Dilemma in Cognitive Control: A Dynamical System Perspective”
Apr 2 Dedre Gentner, Northwestern: “Structure-mapping in Human Learning”
Apr 9 Perry Zurn, American University: “Curiosity, Power, and the Shape of Inquiry”
Apr 16 23rd Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture – Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard: “Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People”
Apr 23 Daniela Schiller, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine: “Exploring the neural landscape of imagination and abstract spaces”
Fall 2020
Sep 25 Marina Bedny, Johns Hopkins: “Built to learn: Insights into nature and nurture from blindness and cognitive expertise”
Oct 9 David Lydon-Staley, UPenn: “Bit by bit, putting it together: Enriching our understanding of health and well-being by intensively sampling daily life”
Oct 16 Mike Arcaro, UPenn: “How the interplay between experience and intrinsic neural architecture guides visual development”
Oct 23 Alexandra Rosati, University of Michigan: “A sense of time in human evolution”
Oct 30 Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley: “Childhood as a solution to explore-exploit tensions”
Nov 6 Steven Roberts, Stanford: “Racism: A Developmental Story”
Nov 13 Lucia Melloni, NYU: “The 3 Cs: Collaborating to Crack Consciousness”
Nov 20 Timothy Bayne, Monash University: “How to Construct A Consciousness Meter”
Dec 4 Michael Tomasello, Duke: “Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny”
Dec 11 Nick Chater, Warwick Business School: “The social contract in miniature: Virtual Bargaining and the theory of joint action, meaning and the foundations of culture”
Spring 2020
Jan 24 Gregory Corder, UPenn: “Pain in the Brain or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Inanimate Objects”
Jan 31 Andrea Beltrama, MindCORE postdoc: “Imprecision and speaker identity: How social cues affect meaning resolution”
Rista Plate, MindCORE postdoc: “How children make choices when information sources diverge”
Feb 7 Deanna Barch, Washington University: “Mechanisms of Motivational Impairments in Psychosis”
Feb 21 Ueli Rutishauser, Cedars-Sinai: “Probing human memory at the single-neuron level”
Feb 28 Todd Rogers, Harvard Kennedy: “Associative Memory and Behavior Change”
Mar 6 22nd Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture – Matthew Botvinick, Princeton University: “Deep reinforcement learning and its neuroscientific implications”
Fall 2019
Sep 13 Tali Sharot, UCL: “Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease”
Sep 20 John McCoy, UPenn : “Distilling more wisdom from a crowd”
Sep 27 Anna Schapiro, UPenn: “Learning and consolidating patterns in experience”
Oct 4 Jesse Goldberg, Cornell: “Male songbirds turn off their self-evaluation systems when they sing to females”
Oct 18 Chen Yu, Indiana: “Statistical Learning from the Infant’s Point of View”
Oct 25 Sandeep Prasada, Hunter College: “Thinking and Talking About Kinds and Their Instances”
Nov 1 Maya Bar-Hillel, University of Jerusalem: “Towards a theory of default representations”
Nov 8 Timothy Lillicrap, Google: “Reward functions and the nature of explanation for intelligent neural systems”
Nov 15 Eva Telzer, UNC: “Neurobiological sensitivity to social context in adolescents”
Nov 22 Simon Eickhoff, Universität Düsseldorf: “From areas and networks to individual predictions”
Dec 6 Kenneth Norman, Princeton: “Computational principles of event memory”
Spring 2019
Jan 18 Rebecca Waller, UPenn: “The Developmental Origins of Callous-Unemotional Traits”
Jan 25 Julia Leonard, MindCORE postdoc: “How social evidence affects persistence in early childhood”
Colin Twomey, MindCORE postdoc: “Talking about color: from individual perception to collective dynamics”
Feb 1 Catherine Hartley, NYU: “Developmental tuning of action selection”
Feb 8 John Krakauer, Johns Hopkins: “Exploring the cognitive-motor interface: motor skill, movement imitation, and procedural memory”
Feb 15 Sam Gershman, Harvard: “The compositional nature of human function learning”
Feb 22 Judit Gervain, Université Paris Descartes: “Early auditory and speech perception lays the foundations of language development”
Mar 1 Eric Turkheimer, UVA: “What is Intelligence? What is Heritability? What is the Heritability of Intelligence?”
Mar 15 Terry Jernigan, UCSD: “Developmental Population Neuroscience and the ABCD Study”
Mar 29 Christian Ruff, University of Zurich: “Dazed and confused? Neuro-computational origins of variability in goal-directed behavior”
Apr 5 Chaz Firestone, Johns Hopkins: “Taking a machine’s perspective”
Apr 12 Aaron Batista, University of Pittsburgh: “How Neural Population Activity Reorganizes with Learning”
Apr 19 21st Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture: Cori Bargmann, Rockefeller University: “Organizing behavior across timescales”
May 3 Helen Mayberg, Mt. Sinai: “Depression Unstuck: Targeted Modulation of Mood and Motor Circuits using DBS”
Fall 2018
Sep 14 Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, UPenn: “A Mouse Pain Scale: Assessment of Pain Sensation in Mice Using Sub-Second Behavioral Mapping and Statistical Modeling”
Sep 21 Adrianna Jenkins, UPenn: “Predicting flexible human social behavior”
Sep 28 Cendri Hutcherson, University of Toronto: “Neurocomputational insights into social decision making, morality, and self-control”
Oct 12 Leah Somerville, Harvard: “Using value to guide goal directed behavior: Neurodevelopmental mechanisms & behavioral consequences”
Oct 19 Brad Postle, University of Wisconsin – Madison: “Controlling the Contents of Working Memory”
Oct 26 David Barner, UCSD: “Linguistic origins of uniquely human abstract concepts”
Nov 2 Robert Hamilton, Neural Analytics, Inc.: “Applying Machine Learning & Medical Robotics for Cerebral Hemodynamic Assessment”
Nov 9 R. Alison Adcock, Duke: “Motivations to Learn: Neural Contexts and Their Regulation”
Nov 16 Felipe De Brigard, Duke University: “Varieties of counterfactual thinking”
Nov 30 Mark Histed, NIMH: “Cortical sensory processing at the single neuron level: circuits, computations, and behavior”
Dec 7 Kevin Zollman, Carnegie Mellon: “The concept of ‘signal’ in biological and social sciences
Spring 2018 – Interdisciplinary Mind & Brain (IMB) Seminar Series
Jan 19 Moira Dillon, Harvard: “Propositioning Euclid in The Quad: From shapes in the world to shapes in the mind”
Jan 26 Miguel Eckstein, UC Santa Barbara: “Rapidly Looking at Faces: A Sensory Optimization Theory”
Feb 2 Koleen McKrink, Barnard College: “Spatial Biases in Childhood”
Feb 16 Josh Tenenbaum, MIT: “On what you can’t learn from (merely) all the data in the world, and what else is needed”
Feb 23 Tim Gentner, UCSD: “Natural Acoustic Signals and their Neural Representation”
Mar 2 Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago: “The Resilience of Language and Gesture”
Mar 16 Talia Konkle, Harvard: “The shape of things and the organization of object-responsive cortex”
Mar 23 Alan Spector, Psychology, Florida State University: “Gastric Bypass: Taste, Palatability, and Food Selection”
Mar 30 Charan Ranganath, UC Davis: “The Where, When, and How of Episodic Memory, and Why it Matters”
Apr 6 20th Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture: Leslie Valiant, Harvard University: “What Needs to be Added to Machine Learning?”
Apr 13 Jessica Cantlon, University of Rochester: “Primitive Math and Logic in the Developing Brain”
Apr 20 Roland Fleming, Universitat Geissen: “Visual Estimation of 3D Shape from Orientation Fields”
May 4 Jerome Busemeyer, Indiana University: “What Is Quantum Cognition, and How Is It Applied to Psychology?”
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