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4/4/25 Mia Elbon: Do animals go as far as they can, or as far as they have to?
Neuroscience Brown Bag Mia Elbon Graduate Student Date: Friday, April 4th, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Do animals go as far as they can, or as far as they have to? An animal’s “home range” is the surface area where it can normally be found over a given time. Larger…
4/8/25 Daisy Singla, University of Toronto: Task Sharing Treatment Perinatal Depression
Clinical Brown Bag Daisy Singla, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom Perinatal Depression Daisy Singla is a clinical psychologist by training, a senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and an Associate Professor in the Department of…
4/10/25 Zengbo Xie
CCN Brown Bag Zengbo Xie Graduate Student Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: Location:
4/11/25 Daniel Felleman, Distinguished Alumni: Visual Cortex: Neurons, Modules, Maps, and Hierarchies
Neuroscience Brown Bag Daniel Felleman, PhD Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy McGovern Medical School Date: Friday, April 11, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Visual Cortex: Neurons, Modules, Maps, and Hierarchies The past forty years has seen a remarkable revelation on our understanding of the organization and function of the cerebral…
4/15/25 Penny Peng
Clinical Brown Bag Penny Peng Graduate Student Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location:
4/17/25 Lasya Pidaparthi
CCN Brown Bag Lasya Pidaparthi Graduate Student Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025 Time: Location:
4/21/25 Colloquium Speaker: Kalanit Grill-Spector, Stanford University: The future of human vision: a cognitive computational neuroanatomical approach to study the human visual system
Colloquium speaker Kalanit Grill-Spector, PhD Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences Date: Monday, April 21, 2025 Time: 4-5:30pm Location: Wilson Hall 126 The future of human vision: a cognitive computational neuroanatomical approach to study the human visual system fMRI and computational modeling have…
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Past Events
4/1/25 Abigail Snow: Parent Emotion Socialization in Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome: Associations with Psychological Symptoms
Clinical Brown Bag Abigail Snow Graduate Student Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom Parent Emotion Socialization in Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome: Associations with Psychological Symptoms Adolescents with Tourette syndrome (TS) are at heightened risk for experiencing psychosocial difficulties. While tics are the defining symptom of TS, there is…
3/26/25 Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow: Culturally Grounded Computational Models of Facial Expressions
College of connected computing Rachael Jack, PhD Professor of Computational Social Cognition Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Time: 4:00 pm Location: Stevenson 5326 Culturally Grounded Computational Models of Facial Expressions
3/28/25 Alex Tiriac: Understanding the role of spontaneous activity on brain development
Neuroscience Brown Bag Alex Tiriac, PhD Hooley Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. The Vanderbilt Brain Institute Date: Friday, March 28, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15 pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Understanding the role of spontaneous activity on brain development Spontaneous neural activity…
3/27/25 Philippe Schyns, University of Glasgow: Dynamic Algorithmic Networks of Visual Categorization
CCN Brown Bag Philippe Schyns, PhD Professor of Psychology Royal Society-Wolfson Fellow Dean of Research Technology University of Glasgow Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025 Time: 12:20-1:10pm Location: Wilson Hall 115 Dynamic Algorithmic Networks of Visual Categorization In cognitive neuroscience, a core challenge is translating brain activity into interpretable information processing. Although advanced tools…
3/25/25 Iony Ezawa, University of Southern California: Early Insights from Starting a Tenure-Track Career in Clinical Science
Clinical Brown Bag Iony Ezawa, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom Early Insights from Starting a Tenure-Track Career in Clinical Science Iony D. Ezawa, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of the Depression Treatment Laboratory at the University of…
3/21/25 Erin Calipari: Hunger enhances goal representation in dorsal striatum dopamine to promote future approach
Neuroscience Brown Bag Erin Calipari, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Director of Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research Vanderbilt Brain Institute Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation Date: Friday, March 21, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Hunger enhances goal representation in dorsal striatum dopamine to promote…
3/20/25 Michael Pratte, Mississippi State: Stimulus-Specific effects in Vision and Visual Memory: Pernicious Noise and Buried Treasure
CCN Brown Bag Michael Pratte, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Mississippi State University Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 Time: 12:10-1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Stimulus-Specific effects in Vision and Visual Memory: Pernicious Noise and Buried Treasure Everyone knows that you shouldn't average data over people. Ignoring person variability would inject massive amounts…
3/4/25 Allie Adamis: Cognitive Mechanisms of Social Anxiety in Daily Life: Unique Effects of Negative Self-Focused Attention on Post-Event Processing
Clinical Brown Bag Allie Adamis, MSc PhD Candidate Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Cognitive Mechanisms of Social Anxiety in Daily Life: Unique Effects of Negative Self-Focused Attention on Post-Event Processing Allie Adamis, MSc, is a third-year PhD candidate in Vanderbilt’s Clinical Science program. She completed her…
3/6/25 Christos Constantinidis: Timescales of learning in the prefrontal cortex
CCN Brown Bag Christos Constantinidis, PhD Stevenson Chair of Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025 Time: 12:10-1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Timescales of learning in the prefrontal cortex Working memory refers to the ability to maintain and manipulate information in the conscious mind over a timescale of seconds. Working memory has been…
12/5/2024 Ikhwan Jeon: Training convolutional neural networks with blurry images enables the learning of more human-aligned visual representations
CCN Brown Bag Ikhwan Jeon Graduate Student, Tong Lab Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024 Time: 12:10PM-1:00PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Training convolutional neural networks with blurry images enables the learning of more human-aligned visual representations Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can achieve human-level object recognition performance on natural images,…
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