Events: Past
4/1/25 Abigail Snow: Parent Emotion Socialization in Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome: Associations with Psychological Symptoms
Mar. 31, 2025—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 evidence for widespread deficits in...
4/4/25 Mia Elbon: Do animals go as far as they can, or as far as they have to?
Mar. 31, 2025—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 animals have larger home ranges,...
4/8/25 Anne-Kathrin Fett, City of St. Georges University of London: Social cognition, trust and social functioning in psychotic disorders
Mar. 31, 2025—Clinical Brown Bag Anne- Kathrin Fett, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom Social cognition, trust and social functioning in psychotic disorders Loneliness and social isolation are associated with poor mental health. Many individuals with psychotic disorders experience chronic social isolation across their lifespan. Social cognition, reduced trust...
4/10/25 Zengbo Xie
Mar. 31, 2025—CCN Brown Bag Zengbo Xie Graduate Student Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 12:10-1pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Schrödinger’s blink: Can we be passive observers of our own behavior? Investigating the role of awareness in motor control is challenging because most actions are performed consciously. We have recently exploited eye blinking as a novel paradigm to tease...
3/26/25 Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow: Culturally Grounded Computational Models of Facial Expressions
Mar. 24, 2025—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
Mar. 21, 2025—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 is a hallmark of the...
3/27/25 Philippe Schyns, University of Glasgow: Dynamic Algorithmic Networks of Visual Categorization
Mar. 21, 2025—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 can measure brain activity with...
3/25/25 Iony Ezawa, University of Southern California: Early Insights from Starting a Tenure-Track Career in Clinical Science
Mar. 21, 2025—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 Southern California. She completed her...
3/21/25 Erin Calipari: Hunger enhances goal representation in dorsal striatum dopamine to promote future approach
Mar. 18, 2025—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 future approach Hunger is a...
3/20/25 Michael Pratte, Mississippi State: Stimulus-Specific effects in Vision and Visual Memory: Pernicious Noise and Buried Treasure
Mar. 12, 2025—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 of noise into the results,...