Events: Past
VSS 2024 – a great Vanderbilt showing
May. 26, 2024—This year, Vanderbilt was well represented at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference with several exciting presentations from researchers from Psychology as well as other departments. Randolph Blake and Isabel Gauthier presented during the awards ceremony as their received, respectively, the Ken Nakayama Medal and the Davida Teller awards, Frank Tong had a talk in...
Kickball 2024 edition!
May. 16, 2024—This year’s Kickball event was a success! Playing under the tent was surprisingly nice, and we didn’t break anything. A team of staff, faculty and student from Psychology (aka “not Ashleigh’s team”) was victorious against the younger, stronger and eager (but perhaps still too green?) team of students from PSY 1200 General Psychology Maymester (team...
5/24/24 John Reynolds: Intrinsic Traveling Waves and Visual Perception
Apr. 23, 2024—John Reynolds, PhD Professor, Fiona and Sanjay Jha Chair in Neuroscience The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Systems Neurobiology Laboratory Date: Friday, May 24, 2024 Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: 1220 MRBIII Intrinsic Traveling Waves and Visual Perception Perceptual sensitivity varies from moment to moment. One potential source of this variability is spontaneous...
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...