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3/28/25 Alex Tiriac: Understanding the role of spontaneous activity on brain development
Neuroscience Brown Bag Alex Tiriac, PhD Hooley Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. The Vanderbilt Brain Institute Date: Friday, March 28, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15 pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Understanding the role of spontaneous activity on brain development Spontaneous neural activity…
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Past Events
3/26/25 Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow: Culturally Grounded Computational Models of Facial Expressions
College of connected computing Rachael Jack, PhD Professor of Computational Social Cognition Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Time: 4:00 pm Location: Stevenson 5326 Culturally Grounded Computational Models of Facial Expressions
3/27/25 Philippe Schyns, University of Glasgow: Dynamic Algorithmic Networks of Visual Categorization
CCN Brown Bag Philippe Schyns, PhD Professor of Psychology Royal Society-Wolfson Fellow Dean of Research Technology University of Glasgow Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025 Time: 12:20-1:10pm Location: Wilson Hall 115 Dynamic Algorithmic Networks of Visual Categorization In cognitive neuroscience, a core challenge is translating brain activity into interpretable information processing. Although advanced tools…
3/25/25 Iony Ezawa, University of Southern California: Early Insights from Starting a Tenure-Track Career in Clinical Science
Clinical Brown Bag Iony Ezawa, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom Early Insights from Starting a Tenure-Track Career in Clinical Science Iony D. Ezawa, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of the Depression Treatment Laboratory at the University of…
3/21/25 Erin Calipari: Hunger enhances goal representation in dorsal striatum dopamine to promote future approach
Neuroscience Brown Bag Erin Calipari, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Director of Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research Vanderbilt Brain Institute Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation Date: Friday, March 21, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Hunger enhances goal representation in dorsal striatum dopamine to promote…
3/20/25 Michael Pratte, Mississippi State: Stimulus-Specific effects in Vision and Visual Memory: Pernicious Noise and Buried Treasure
CCN Brown Bag Michael Pratte, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Mississippi State University Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 Time: 12:10-1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Stimulus-Specific effects in Vision and Visual Memory: Pernicious Noise and Buried Treasure Everyone knows that you shouldn't average data over people. Ignoring person variability would inject massive amounts…
3/4/25 Allie Adamis: Cognitive Mechanisms of Social Anxiety in Daily Life: Unique Effects of Negative Self-Focused Attention on Post-Event Processing
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…
3/6/25 Christos Constantinidis: Timescales of learning in the prefrontal cortex
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…
12/5/2024 Ikhwan Jeon: Training convolutional neural networks with blurry images enables the learning of more human-aligned visual representations
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,…
12/3/2024 Julia Lebovitz: Altered Self-Experience in Depersonalization Disorder
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…
11/19/2024 Corinne Carlton-Smith: Reward-Related Dysfunction in Social Anxiety Disorder: Implications for Current Treatment and Future Directions
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…
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