Events: Past
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...
11/11/25 Camille Archer: Interactive Effects of Phasic and Tonic Irritability and Negative Life Events on Internalizing Symptoms: Examining Network Connectivity
Nov. 6, 2025—Clinical brown bag Camille Archer Graduate Student Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Interactive Effects of Phasic and Tonic Irritability and Negative Life Events on Internalizing Symptoms: Examining Network Connectivity This talk will present a proposed research project submitted for the NRSA. Internalizing disorders emerge early in development, underscoring...
11/7/25 Ayman Aljishi: Dentate spikes in the hippocampus of sleeping macaques
Nov. 4, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Ayman Aljishi PhD Student Date: Friday, November 7, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Dentate spikes in the hippocampus of sleeping macaques The sleeping brain exhibits distinctive electrophysiological events that are linked to memory consolidation across neocortical and hippocampal regions. Slow waves (0.5–2 Hz) and spindles (10–16 Hz) are the key...
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...