Talks in the ‘Psychology’ Category

Protected: Colloquium: Lightning Talks

Wednesday, November 20th, 2019

Protected: Fiery Cushman: “How we know what not to think”

Monday, November 11th, 2019

Protected: Jason Yeatman: “Plasticity and learning: How education shapes brain development”

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

Protected: Laurie Santos: “The Origins of Mind-Reading: Insights from Non-Human Primates”

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019

Protected: Ulrike Hahn: “How Rational Am I?”

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Protected: Johannes C. Eichstaedt: “Measuring Physical and Mental Health Using Social Media”

Monday, June 10th, 2019

Protected: Karin Roelofs: “Neural Control of Human Defensive Reactions to Social Threat”

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019

Protected: Nour Kteily: “Darker Demons of our Nature: The Prevalence and Potency of Blatant Forms of Dehumanization”

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

Dave Rand: “Fake news: Why we fall for it and what to do about it”

Wednesday, February 20th, 2019

Terry Jernigan: “Developmental Population Neuroscience and the ABCD Study”

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019

Julia Leonard: “Social influences on children’s persistence and learning”

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

Protected: Elizabeth Gunderson: “The development of mathematical cognition and motivation”

Monday, January 14th, 2019

Protected: Denise Werchan: “The Ontogenetic Origins of Complex Knowledge: PFC Contributions to Learning in Infancy”

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Kendrick Kay: “Recent data-driven efforts for studying vision using 7T fMRI”

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

Protected: Shige Oishi: “What is a Good Life?”

Friday, October 26th, 2018

Protected: Mikki Hebl: “Gender and Race Gatekeeping”

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018

John Dovidio: “Racism among the Well-Intentioned”

Monday, May 14th, 2018

Barry Schwartz: “Choice, Maximizing, Rationality, and Self-Expression”

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

David Heeger: “Canonical Computation in Brains and Machines”

Tuesday, April 24th, 2018

Protected: Stanislas Dehaene: “Variability in Emotion at Multiple Time-Scales: Individuals Interacting with Media, Each Other, and Age “

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

Nilam Ram: “Variability in Emotion at Multiple Time-Scales: Individuals Interacting with Media, Each Other, and Age “

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018

Laura Lewis: “Whole-brain network dynamics underlying transitions between sleep and wake”

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018

Janine Bijsterbosch: “From Connectivity to Biomarker”

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

Protected: Henry Wellman: “Children’s Understanding of (Technological) Minds”

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018

Douglas Medin: “Learning and consolidating patterns in experience”

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018

Anna Schapiro: “Learning and consolidating patterns in experience”

Wednesday, November 29th, 2017

Ida Momennejad: “Predictive Representations in Memory and Planning”

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

Sonja Lyubomirsky: “Whither Happiness? When, How, and Why Might Positive Activities Boost Versus Undermine Well-Being”

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017

Bruce McNaughton: “‘Zipping’ and ‘unzipping’ the hippocampal index code”

Friday, October 20th, 2017

Joe Henrich: “The Secret of our Success”

Friday, May 19th, 2017

Wendy Berry Mendes: “Physiological covariation among strangers and close others”

Friday, April 21st, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 20

Friday, March 17th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 19

Friday, March 17th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 15

Sunday, March 5th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 14

Sunday, March 5th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 13

Friday, February 24th, 2017

Jessica Hamrick: “Metareasoning and mental simulation”

Friday, February 24th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 12

Thursday, February 23rd, 2017

Tobias Gerstenberg: “Understanding why: From counterfactual simulations to responsibility judgments”

Friday, February 17th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 11

Friday, February 10th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 09 – fMRI Signals and Field Potentials

Tuesday, February 7th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 08

Tuesday, February 7th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 07 – Parallel Imaging Techniques

Thursday, February 2nd, 2017

Brenden Lake: “Three principles for understanding distinctively human learning”

Thursday, February 2nd, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 06

Thursday, January 26th, 2017

Clara Wilkins: “Causes and consequences of perceiving bias against high-status groups”

Thursday, January 26th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 05

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 04

Friday, January 20th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 03 – What MR Measures

Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 02 – MR Signals

Thursday, January 12th, 2017

Jasmine DeJesus: “The social significance of language”

Thursday, January 12th, 2017

Protected: PSYCH 204A [W17]: Lecture 01 – Introduction to human neuroimaging methods

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

Steven Roberts: “Children’s concepts of race”

Friday, December 16th, 2016

Ione Fine: “Do you hear what I see? How blind individuals understand the auditory world.”

Friday, December 9th, 2016

PSYCH Colloquium Series: Lightning Talks 2 – Fall 2016

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

Gregory Samanez-Larkin: “Motivation and decision making in the aging brain”

Monday, October 24th, 2016

PSYCH Colloquium Series: Lightning Talks

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Philip Zimbardo: “The Legacy of the Stanford Prison Experiment”

Monday, July 25th, 2016

Alana Conner: “The Science of Social Change: Using Cultural Psychology for Good”

Monday, July 25th, 2016

Frank Tong: “Visual orientation and its contributions to perception, attention and working memory”

Thursday, May 5th, 2016

Amanda Woodward: “Acting and thinking in infancy”

Saturday, April 23rd, 2016

Yaoda Xu: “Multi-level and dynamic visual information representation in the human brain”

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016

Rebecca Saxe: “It’s the thought that counts: progress in understanding the neural basis of thinking about thought”

Friday, February 12th, 2016

Nick Turk-Browne: “Interactions of statistical learning with perception, attention, and memory”

Friday, February 12th, 2016

Brian Wandell “Light Field Camera Simulation”

Thursday, January 7th, 2016

Brian Wandell: “Depth of Field”

Thursday, January 7th, 2016

J. David Creswell: “The Mindful Mindset: Stress-Health Pathways”

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Craig R. Fox: “Two Dimensions of Subjective Uncertainty”

Thursday, October 15th, 2015

Greg Walton: “Psychology Is Changing the World: Introducing Students to “Wise” Interventions”

Monday, July 20th, 2015

Wei Ja Ma: “Decision-making in combinatorial games”

Thursday, June 4th, 2015

Jean Twenge: “Modern culture and individualism: Has self-focus made us better or worse?”

Thursday, May 21st, 2015

Phil and Carolyn Cowan: “Interventions for parents to strengthen family relationships and benefit children: 40 years of research in 40 minutes”

Friday, May 1st, 2015

Elizabeth Spelke: “Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change”

Thursday, February 12th, 2015

Protected: Daniel Yamins: “Using Behaviorally-Driven Computational Models to Uncover Principles of Cortical Representation”

Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

Roger Levy: Expectation-based language comprehension and production

Thursday, January 29th, 2015

Protected: Anne Collins: The hidden players in human reinforcement learning

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

George Alvarez: “How representing multiple objects (and features) as an ensemble enhances higher-level visual cognition”

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

Talia Konkle: “The large-scale organization of object representation”

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

Tor Wager: “Neuroimaging of pain and distress: The path from blobs to biomarkers to brain representation”

Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

PSYCH 204A [Fall 2014]: MRI – Signals

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

PSYCH 204A [Fall 2014]: MRI – The Coils

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

PSYCH 204A [Fall 2014]: MRI – The B0 Field

Wednesday, October 15th, 2014

PSYCH 204A [Fall 2014]: MRI Instrument Overview

Monday, October 13th, 2014

Aviv Mezer: “Lifespan maturation and degeneration of human brain white matter”

Friday, October 3rd, 2014

PSYCH Colloquium Series: Lightning Talks

Thursday, October 2nd, 2014

PSYCH 204A [Fall 2014]: Course Introduction

Thursday, October 2nd, 2014

Protected: PSYCH 212: Lecture 01 – Introduction and Overview

Thursday, January 9th, 2014

PSYCH 216A: Matlab Tutorial No. 7 – Classification

Friday, September 27th, 2013

PSYCH 216A: Matlab Tutorial No. 6 – Model Reliability

Friday, September 27th, 2013

PSYCH 216A: Matlab Tutorial No. 5 – Model accuracy

Friday, September 27th, 2013

PSYCH 216A: Matlab Tutorial No. 4 – Model fitting

Friday, September 27th, 2013

PSYCH 216A: Matlab Tutorial No. 3 – Model specification

Friday, September 27th, 2013

PSYCH 216A: Matlab Tutorial No. 2 – Hypothesis testing and correlation

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Protected: PSYCH 212: Lecture 11 – Attitudes and Attitude Change

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

Protected: PSYCH 212: Lecture 9 – Interpersonal Attraction (Part 1)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

Protected: PSYCH 221: Lecture 9 – Image Forensics

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

Protected: PSYCH221: Lecture 20

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Protected: PSYCH221: Lecture 19

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Protected: PSYCH221: Lecture 18

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Protected: PSYCH221: Lecture 17

Thursday, March 8th, 2012