4/8/25 Anne-Kathrin Fett, City of St. Georges University of London: Social cognition, trust and social functioning in psychotic disorders
Mar. 31, 2025—Clinical Brown Bag Anne- Kathrin Fett, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom Social cognition, trust and social functioning in psychotic disorders Loneliness and social isolation are associated with poor mental health. Many individuals with psychotic disorders experience chronic social isolation across their lifespan. Social cognition, reduced trust...
4/10/25 Zengbo Xie
Mar. 31, 2025—CCN Brown Bag Zengbo Xie Graduate Student Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 12:10-1pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Schrödinger’s blink: Can we be passive observers of our own behavior? Investigating the role of awareness in motor control is challenging because most actions are performed consciously. We have recently exploited eye blinking as a novel paradigm to tease...
4/11/25 Daniel Felleman, Distinguished Alumna: Visual Cortex: Neurons, Modules, Maps, and Hierarchies
Mar. 31, 2025—Neuroscience Brown Bag Daniel Felleman, PhD Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy McGovern Medical School Date: Friday, April 11, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Visual Cortex: Neurons, Modules, Maps, and Hierarchies The past forty years has seen a remarkable revelation on our understanding of the organization and function of the cerebral cortex, especially primate visual cortex....
4/15/25 Penny Peng: A Comprehensive Examination of Sex-differentiated Manifestations of ADHD Symptoms
Mar. 31, 2025—Clinical Brown Bag Penny Peng Graduate Student Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom A Comprehensive Examination of Sex-differentiated Manifestations of ADHD Symptoms Penny (Zheyue) Peng is a second-year student in Vanderbilt’s Clinical Science program and is a member of Dr. Ashley Watts’ Mechanisms of Addiction and Psychopathology Lab. She previously earned...
4/17/25 Lasyapriya Pidaparthi: Eye tracking reveals the efficacy of object-based attention at filtering out salient distractors
Mar. 31, 2025—CCN Brown Bag Lasya Pidaparthi Graduate Student Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00 pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Eye tracking reveals the efficacy of object-based attention at filtering out salient distractors Visual attention allows us to focus on task-relevant information. Previous research has shown that covert attention can modulate the perceived contrast of a stimulus...
4/21/25 Colloquium Speaker: Kalanit Grill-Spector, Stanford University: The future of human vision: a cognitive computational neuroanatomical approach to study the human visual system
Mar. 31, 2025—Colloquium speaker Kalanit Grill-Spector, PhD Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences Date: Monday, April 21, 2025 Time: 4-5:30pm Location: Wilson Hall 126 The future of human vision: a cognitive computational neuroanatomical approach to study the human visual system fMRI and computational modeling have transformed our understanding of the...
3/26/25 Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow: Culturally Grounded Computational Models of Facial Expressions
Mar. 24, 2025—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
3/28/25 Alex Tiriac: Understanding the role of spontaneous activity on brain development
Mar. 21, 2025—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 is a hallmark of the...
3/27/25 Philippe Schyns, University of Glasgow: Dynamic Algorithmic Networks of Visual Categorization
Mar. 21, 2025—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 can measure brain activity with...
3/25/25 Iony Ezawa, University of Southern California: Early Insights from Starting a Tenure-Track Career in Clinical Science
Mar. 21, 2025—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 Southern California. She completed her...