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Mark Wallace, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Dean, Graduate School
Dec. 17, 2025—Mark T. Wallace, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Dean, Graduate School, Vanderbilt University The Wallace Lab Why do our senses often work better together than alone? How do sound, sight, and touch combine to shape behavior? And what happens when multisensory processing goes awry in autism, ADHD, or dyslexia? The Wallace Lab investigates the brain’s...
Geoff Woodman named 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner
Dec. 16, 2025—Geoff Woodman, PhD Professor of Psychology, E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University From the nomination letter: After earning his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in psychology from the University of Iowa working with Steve Luck (then at Iowa), Geoff joined Vanderbilt as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology with Jeff Schall and Marvin Chun (when...
12/4/25 Faculty Panel: Making Rejection Work for You – a panel discussion on how to deal with rejection in academia.
Dec. 1, 2025—CCN brown bag Isabel Gauthier, PhD, Andre Bastos, PhD, Ashley Watts, PhD Professors- Psychology Department Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Making Rejection Work for You – a panel discussion on how to deal with rejection in academia. On an average day in our department, many of us face...
12/2/25 Sarah Jessup: What makes a good exposure? An empirical update on approaches to exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders and directions for future research
Dec. 1, 2025—Clinical brown bag Sarah Jessup, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00 pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall What makes a good exposure? An empirical update on approaches to exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders and directions for future research Exposure therapy is considered a highly efficacious, first-line treatment for anxiety-related disorders. Yet,...
12/5/25 Valentina Cigliola: Innate Mechanisms of Spinal Cord Regeneration
Dec. 1, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Valentina Cigliola, PhD Assistant Professor, Pharmacology Date: Friday, December 5, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15 Location: 316 Wilson Hall Innate Mechanisms of Spinal Cord Regeneration Adult mammals including humans fail to regenerate the spinal cord after injury, leading to sensorimotor deficits and paralysis. In contrast, zebrafish can fully regenerate and recover motor function after...
Conor Smithson successfully defends dissertation
Nov. 19, 2025—Conor Smithson from The Object Perception lab successfully defended his dissertation titled “The Structure and Correlates of Domain-general Object Recognition Ability” on 11/5, under the supervision of Dr. Isabel Gauthier. This work uses structural equation modeling to advance our understanding of the relations between a high-level visual ability for subordinate-level object recognition and a number of other...
11/20/25 Jon Lane: Children’s Acquisition and Detection of Social Biases
Nov. 19, 2025—CCN brown bag Jonathan Lane, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development Date: Thursday, November 20th, 2025 Time: 12:10-1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Children’s Acquisition and Detection of Social Biases We are all susceptible to acquiring social biases, and we often identify social biases in others. Our lab has been exploring the developmental origins of...
11/18/25: Ankita Mohan: Childhood ADHD and Long-Term Educational Outcomes: Identifying Pathways Through Twin Research
Nov. 13, 2025—Clinical brown bag Ankita Mohan Graduate Student Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Childhood ADHD and Long-Term Educational Outcomes: Identifying Pathways Through Twin Research This presentation investigates the long-term socioeconomic consequences of childhood ADHD using data from the Minnesota Twin and Family Study. Employing co-twin control analyses to distinguish...
11/14/25 Adam Tiesman: Behavioral mechanisms underlying the integration of auditory and visual motion
Nov. 10, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Adam Tiesman Graduate Student Date: Friday, November 14, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Behavioral mechanisms underlying the integration of auditory and visual motion Accurate motion perception is crucial for navigating complex environments, where sensory information is often derived from multiple modalities. While multisensory cues improve performance in tasks involving...
11/13/25 H. Andrew Schwartz: Capturing Cognitive Styles and Thought Patterns with Discourse-level Large Language Models
Nov. 6, 2025—CCN brown bag H. Andrew Schwartz Associate Professor College of Connected Computing Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Capturing Cognitive Styles and Thought Patterns with Discourse-level Large Language Models While recent advances in natural language processing capture the meaning of written words in context, they fall short of capturing cognitive style...