Events: Past
Radnor Lake birdwatching April 20, 2024
Apr. 23, 2024—(Our full list for that morning can be found here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S169454419) At Radnor Lake, with gentle tread, The psychology folks, with eyes ahead, Spied birds aloft and on the wing, In a chorus only spring could bring. Canada Geese in stately flight, Wood Ducks glimmered in morning light, Mallards waddled, a charming view, Chimney Swifts...
3/7/24 – Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Brown Bag: David Coggan, PhD
Mar. 7, 2024—Modelling human visual perception of occluded objects: insights from training 150 convolutional neural networks. Date: Thursday, March 7 Time: 12:20 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Location: Wilson Hall 115 Human observers can readily perceive and recognize visual objects, even when occluding stimuli obscure much of the object from view. By contrast, state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNNs)...
3/5/24 – Clinical Brown Bag Lecture Series: Junghee Lee, PhD
Mar. 5, 2024—Social Cognition in Severe Mental Illness: Where we are and where we are going. Date: Tuesday, March 5 Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location: Wilson Hall 316 Social cognition refers to a set of abilities that recognize, understand and respond to socially relevant information from oneself and others. Social cognition is considered one of...
3/1/24 – Friday Neuroscience Brown Bag Lecture Series: Ken Rahman
Mar. 5, 2024—Macaque learning of spatiotemporal sequences and their mapping to hippocampal representational geometry Date: Friday, March 1 Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: Wilson Hall 115 Hippocampal activity in freely-moving rodents shows the capacity for stable spatiotemporal representations of the environment (through ‘place cells’) that may serve as a cognitive map. These findings have been...
2/15/24 – Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Brown Bag: Ilana Horn
Feb. 15, 2024—Against “Best Practices” in Teaching: Lessons from Collaborative Research Date: Thursday, February 15 Time: 12:20 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Location: Wilson Hall 115 Talk of “best practices” is everywhere in teacher education. Professional developers, school administrators, and teachers themselves talk about them all the time when they seek to improve instruction. In this talk, I...