Events: Past
3/4/25 Allie Adamis: Cognitive Mechanisms of Social Anxiety in Daily Life: Unique Effects of Negative Self-Focused Attention on Post-Event Processing
Mar. 3, 2025—Clinical Brown Bag Allie Adamis, MSc PhD Candidate Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Cognitive Mechanisms of Social Anxiety in Daily Life: Unique Effects of Negative Self-Focused Attention on Post-Event Processing Allie Adamis, MSc, is a third-year PhD candidate in Vanderbilt’s Clinical Science program. She completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University...
3/6/25 Christos Constantinidis: Timescales of learning in the prefrontal cortex
Mar. 3, 2025—CCN Brown Bag Christos Constantinidis, PhD Stevenson Chair of Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025 Time: 12:10-1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Timescales of learning in the prefrontal cortex Working memory refers to the ability to maintain and manipulate information in the conscious mind over a timescale of seconds. Working memory has been thought to be an immutable...
12/5/2024 Ikhwan Jeon: Training convolutional neural networks with blurry images enables the learning of more human-aligned visual representations
Dec. 3, 2024—CCN Brown Bag Ikhwan Jeon Graduate Student, Tong Lab Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024 Time: 12:10PM-1:00PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Training convolutional neural networks with blurry images enables the learning of more human-aligned visual representations Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can achieve human-level object recognition performance on natural images, research has revealed systematic deviations...
12/3/2024 Julia Lebovitz: Altered Self-Experience in Depersonalization Disorder
Nov. 20, 2024—Clinical Brown Bag Julia Lebovitz Graduate Student, Park Lab Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Altered Self-Experience in Depersonalization Disorder In this presentation, I will discuss altered self-experience in depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPD), a clinical condition characterized by a pronounced disconnection from one’s self and surroundings. Depersonalization experiences can occur transiently in the...
11/19/2024 Corinne Carlton-Smith: Reward-Related Dysfunction in Social Anxiety Disorder: Implications for Current Treatment and Future Directions
Nov. 15, 2024—Clinical Brown Bag Corinne Carlton-Smith, PhD F32 Postdoctoral Fellow Psychology and Human Development Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Reward-Related Dysfunction in Social Anxiety Disorder: Implications for Current Treatment and Future Directions Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a chronic and impairing disorder characterized by persistent fear and avoidance of social situations. SAD...
11/22/2024 Xuan Wen: Flexible Learning and Re-ordering of Context-dependent Object Sequences in Nonhuman Primates
Nov. 14, 2024—Neuroscience Brown Bag Xuan Wen PhD Candidate in Neuroscience Womelsdorf Lab Date: Friday, November 22, 2024 Time: 1:25PM-2:15PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Flexible Learning and Re-ordering of Context-dependent Object Sequences in Nonhuman Primates Intelligent behavior involves mentally arranging learned information in novel ways and is particularly well developed in humans. While nonhuman primates (NHP) will learn...
11/21/2024 Xueying (Caroline) Ren: Understanding the neural basis of math competence in both children and adults
Nov. 14, 2024—CCN Brown Bag Xueying (Caroline) Ren, PhD Postdoc, Vinci-Booher Lab Peabody College Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024 Time: 12:10PM-1:00PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Understanding the Neural Basis of Math Competence in both Children and Adults Developing math skills early is crucial for success in modern society, yet individuals show significant differences in math...
11/15/2024 Frank Tong: Understanding the Neurocomputational Bases of Robust Object Recognition in Humans through Modeling with Deep Neural Networks
Nov. 13, 2024—Neuroscience Brown Bag Frank Tong, PhD Centennial Professor of Psychology Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Date: Friday, November 15, 2024 Time: 1:25PM-2:15PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Understanding the Neurocomputational Bases of Robust Object Recognition in Humans through Modeling with Deep Neural Networks Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on tasks of object classification provide the best...
11/14/2024 Oliver Whilhelm: Exhausting the Utility of Psychological Measures through Indicator Sampling
Nov. 13, 2024—CCN Brown Bag Oliver Whilhelm, PhD Professor of Psychological Assessment Ulm University Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024 Time: 12:10PM-1PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Exhausting the Utility of Psychological Measures through Indicator Sampling Data reduction is commonly used to condense information inherent in measures of human abilities, traits, and behaviors. Requirements of these techniques are often not met....
10/22/2024 Camille Archer: Interactive Effect of Irritability and Negative Life Events on Internalizing Symptoms
Oct. 17, 2024—Clinical Brown Bag Camille Archer Graduate Student Kaczkurkin Lab Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Interactive Effect of Irritability and Negative Life Events on Internalizing Symptoms Childhood irritability and the experience of negative life events have independently been associated with the emergence and trajectory of internalizing symptoms. Here, we investigate how...