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Upcoming Events
12/4/25 Faculty Panel: Making Rejection Work for You - a panel discussion on how to deal with rejection in academia.
CCN brown bag Isabel Gauthier, PhD, Andre Bastos, PhD, Ashley Watts, PhD Professors- Psychology Department Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Making Rejection Work for You - a panel discussion on how to deal with rejection in academia. On an average day in our…
12/2/25 Sarah Jessup: What makes a good exposure? An empirical update on approaches to exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders and directions for future research
Clinical brown bag Sarah Jessup, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00 pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall What makes a good exposure? An empirical update on approaches to exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders and directions for future research Exposure therapy is considered a highly efficacious, first-line…
12/5/25 Valentina Cigliola: Innate Mechanisms of Spinal Cord Regeneration
Neuroscience brown bag Valentina Cigliola, PhD Assistant Professor, Pharmacology Date: Friday, December 5, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15 Location: 316 Wilson Hall Innate Mechanisms of Spinal Cord Regeneration Adult mammals including humans fail to regenerate the spinal cord after injury, leading to sensorimotor deficits and paralysis. In contrast, zebrafish can fully regenerate…
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Past Events
11/20/25 Jon Lane: Children's Acquisition and Detection of Social Biases
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…
11/18/25: Ankita Mohan: Childhood ADHD and Long-Term Educational Outcomes: Identifying Pathways Through Twin Research
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…
11/14/25 Adam Tiesman: Behavioral mechanisms underlying the integration of auditory and visual motion
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…
11/13/25 H. Andrew Schwartz: Capturing Cognitive Styles and Thought Patterns with Discourse-level Large Language Models
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…
11/11/25 Camille Archer: Interactive Effects of Phasic and Tonic Irritability and Negative Life Events on Internalizing Symptoms: Examining Network Connectivity
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…
11/7/25 Ayman Aljishi: Dentate spikes in the hippocampus of sleeping macaques
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…
11/6/25 Melina Mueller: Color Shapes the Relationship Between Affective Traits and Food Recognition
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…
11/4/25 Allie Adamis: Applying to an F31: Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award
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…
10/31/25 Reed Hightower: Neighboring and Contralateral Somatosensory Fields of the Hands Affect Responses of Area 3b Neuron
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…
10/30/25 Kari Hoffman: Memory Futures
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…
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