Events: Past
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...
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...
10/7/25 Lawrence Stacey: Cisgender/Transgender Health Disparities across the Age Distribution and the Uneven Burden of Stress
Oct. 14, 2025—Clinical brown bag Lawrence Stacey, PhD Assistant Professor of Sociology Date: October 7, 2025 Time: 12- 1pm Location: 316 WH Cisgender/Transgender Health Disparities across the Age Distribution and the Uneven Burden of Stress Transgender individuals experience worse health than their cisgender counterparts. Although studies have documented a trans health disadvantage in studies with populations of...
10/3/25 Peter Kaskan: Intracranial stimulation in humans suggests mechanisms for manipulating circuits involved in affect, memory, and decision-making
Oct. 14, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Peter Kaskan, PhD Departments of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY Date: October 3, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15 Location: 316 WH Intracranial stimulation in humans suggests mechanisms for manipulating circuits involved in affect, memory, and decision-making The amygdala has extensive connections with the anterior cingulate (ACC), medial and...