9/2/25 Ali Sloan: Nicotine use and Psychoticism: A Longitudinal Co-Twin Control Analysis
Sep. 2, 2025—Clinical brown bag Ali Sloan Graduate Student Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Nicotine use and Psychoticism: A Longitudinal Co-Twin Control Analysis While nicotine use has been linked to increased psychosis risk in observational studies, these associations may reflect confounding by shared genetic and environmental factors rather than causal...
9/5/25 Swarat Kulkarni: Physiological, Histological, and Cognitive Characterization of a Rhesus Macaque Model of Presbycusis
Aug. 29, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Date: September 5, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15 Location: 316 Wilson Hall Physiological, Histological, and Cognitive Characterization of a Rhesus Macaque Model of Presbycusis Introduction: Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), also known as presbycusis, is estimated to affect nearly two‐thirds of the U.S. population over 70. Although hearing amplification and cochlear implantation are...
Jordan Gunn successfully defends dissertation
Aug. 27, 2025—Jordan Gunn passed his PhD dissertation defense under the direction of Sean Polyn, PhD, on August 19th, 2025. Congratulations, Dr. Gunn! His thesis, “Same Item, Distinct Contexts: Episode-Specific Reinstatement in Free and Serial Recall” makes substantial contributions to our understanding of human memory. This work examines (among other things) how repeated experiences are stored in memory:...
8/29/25 Suzana Herculano- Houzel: A supply-limited framework of brain function accounts for the evolution of endothermic brains
Aug. 26, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Suzana Herculano-Houzel, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Date: Friday, August 29, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall A supply-limited framework of brain function accounts for the evolution of endothermic brains Mammals and birds, the endothermic vertebrates, have distinctly bigger brains for their body size that are also characterized by an...
Postdoctoral researcher position- BRAINS Lab
Aug. 26, 2025—Department: Psychology Description: The BRAINS Lab in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University seeks applicants for a postdoctoral researcher position. The lab’s research program focuses on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to internalizing disorders. The lab integrates multimodal measures such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), cerebral blood flow, brain anatomy, psychophysiology (e.g.,...
Postdoctoral researcher position- Polyn and Woodman Lab
Aug. 25, 2025—Department: Psychology Description: The Polyn Lab and the Woodman Lab in the Psychology Department at Vanderbilt University seek applicants for a co-mentored postdoctoral researcher position. The researcher will work on projects developing computational models of human behavioral performance in episodic memory and visual working memory tasks. The researcher will be given training in computational model...
Postdoctoral position in human visual perception, object recognition, and computational modeling
Aug. 25, 2025—Department: Psychology Description: Dr. Frank Tong’s lab at Vanderbilt University seeks to recruit a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in human vision, computational modeling and/or deep learning to conduct research on the neurocomputational bases of visual processing. In particular, the lab is interested in understanding how human observers are capable of perceiving and recognizing complex objects...
8/26/25 Rachael A. Muscatello: Pubertal Development, Physical Health, and Cardiovascular Autonomic Function in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Aug. 25, 2025—Clinical brown bag Rachael A. Muscatello, PhD Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Division of Psychology Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Pubertal Development, Physical Health, and Cardiovascular Autonomic Function in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a highly coordinated system responsible...
8/28/25 Jesse Spencer- Smith: Vibe Coding for Scientists
Aug. 22, 2025—CCN brown bag Jesse Spencer-Smith, PhD Interim Director, Data Science Institute Chief Data Scientist, Data Science Institute Professor In Practice, Computer Science Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Vibe Coding for Scientists Recent developments have greatly increased the utility and value of AI models in research endeavors. We’ll...
8/22/25 Eli Sennesh: Oscillations, but not Spike Rates, Encode Predictive Processing
Aug. 19, 2025—NEUROSCIENCE BROWN BAG Eli Sennesh Postdoctoral Candidate Date: Friday, August 22, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Oscillations, but not Spike Rates, Encode Predictive Processing The appearance at the anatomical level of a canonical laminar microcircuit suggests that each six-layer column of granular cortex may mediate a canonical computation, but it remains unknown...