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11/6/25 Melina Mueller: Color Shapes the Relationship Between Affective Traits and Food Recognition
Nov. 4, 2025—CCN brown bag Melina Mueller Graduate Student Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Color Shapes the Relationship Between Affective Traits and Food Recognition Each of us experiences food in perceptually rich and varied ways. Our lab became interested in whether individual differences in experience with food predict the...
11/4/25 Allie Adamis: Applying to an F31: Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award
Oct. 29, 2025—Clinical brown bag Allie Adamis Doctoral Candidate Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Applying to an F31: Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award This talk will introduce students to the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA), or F31. The F31 is an NIH-sponsored predoctoral fellowship that provides funding...
10/31/25 Reed Hightower: Neighboring and Contralateral Somatosensory Fields of the Hands Affect Responses of Area 3b Neuron
Oct. 29, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Reed Hightower Date: Friday, October 31, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15 Location: 316 Wilson Hall Neighboring and Contralateral Somatosensory Fields of the Hands Affect Responses of Area 3b Neuron In primary somatosensory cortex area 3b, there are few, if any, callosal connections to connect the representations of the two hands. The excitatory receptive...
10/30/25 Kari Hoffman: Memory Futures
Oct. 29, 2025—CCN brown bag Kari Hoffman, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Memory Futures In this talk, I’ll highlight five considerations to inform the next era of memory research. They build on what the field has discovered, as well as insights that are sometimes...
Kari Hoffman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology and Biomedical Engineering
Oct. 27, 2025—The Perception, Plasticity and Learning Lab Kari Hoffman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology and Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Lab Website | Google Scholar Kari Hoffman leads the Perception, Plasticity and Learning lab, investigating how neural circuits organize and adapt to build knowledge. Her research examines how memories manifest in brain activity and whether this activity...
10/21/25 Rachel Marlowe: Neural Responses to Interpersonal Images as Moderators of Associations between Chronic Social Stress and Symptoms of Depression and Social Anxiety in Adolescents
Oct. 20, 2025—Clinical brown bag Rachel Marlowe, M.Ed. Department of Psychology and Human Development Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00 PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Neural Responses to Interpersonal Images as Moderators of Associations between Chronic Social Stress and Symptoms of Depression and Social Anxiety in Adolescents Depression and social anxiety are related but distinct...
10/23/25 Ginni Strehle: Highlighting differences between human face perception and deep neural networks
Oct. 20, 2025—CCN brown bag Ginni Strehle Graduate Student Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00 pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Highlighting differences between human face perception and deep neural networks Human face perception is tuned to subtle differences. What aspects of a face can alter our perception of similarity the most? We explored this question...
10/17/25 Yihan (Sophy) Xiong: Hierarchical substrates of prediction in visual cortical spiking
Oct. 14, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Sophy Xiong Graduate Student Date: October 17, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Hierarchical substrates of prediction in visual cortical spiking Predictive processing models have recently flourished in neuroscience. Feedforward and feedback modulation are at the heart of these hierarchical predictive processing models. Previous experimental studies using fMRI, EEG/MEG, and...
10/16/25 Justine Hoch: The development of exploratory behavior
Oct. 14, 2025—CCN brown bag Justine Hoch, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall The development of exploratory behavior The onset of independent locomotion is a particularly important milestone in the development of exploratory behavior. Once mobile, human infants gain unprecedented access to the...
10/14/25 McKenzie Roddy: Importance of the Dyadic Lens on Health Behaviors and Social Support Interventions
Oct. 14, 2025—Clinical brown bag McKenzie Roddy, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Date: October 14, 2025 Time: 12- 1pm Location: 316 WH Importance of the Dyadic Lens on Health Behaviors and Social Support Interventions Managing chronic conditions, like type 2 diabetes, requires daily behaviors like choosing a healthful diet, engaging in physical activity, adhering to medications, and...