Sept 6 New grad students orientation
*Sept 13 Nicolas Shea (Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford)
"Reward Prediction Error Signals are Meta-Representational." [Abstract]
Sept 20 Eric Taylor (Dept. of Psychology, Yale)
"Reasoning about Missing Information during Causal Learning and Classification"
Sept 27 Daniel Casasanto (Dept. of Psychology, The New School)
"Different Bodies, Different Minds: The body-specificity of language and thought" [Abstract]
Oct 4 Christopher Chabris (Dept. of Psychology, Union College)
"Three Surprising Facts about Individual, Heritable, Human Intelligence"
*Oct 11 Nicholas Humphrey (London School of Economics)
"Soul Dust: The magic of consciousness"
Oct 18 Professional Development Workshop
"Applying for/finding/creating a postdoc and being one (how does it work, how to make the best of it...)"
Oct 25 Canceled: No talk
Nov 1 Canceled: No talk
Nov 8 Kevin Ochsner (Dept. of Psychology, Columbia)
"Emotion, Regulation and Empathy: Basic mechanisms and their translational applications"
Nov 15 Dan Kahan (Yale Law School)
"The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture conflict, rationality conflict, and climate change"
Nov 22 FALL BREAK
Nov 29 Francesca Gino (Harvard Business School)
"Memory Lane and Morality: How childhood memories promote prosocial behavior"
*Jan 10 Robin Clark (Dept. of Linguistics, Pennsylvania)
"Strategic Indirection: Grice meets Goffman"
Jan 17 Lila Davachi (Dept. of Psychology, NYU)
"Memory's Fate: Associative memory formation and organization"
Jan 24 Alan Anticevic (Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale)
"Characterizing Emotion and Cognition in Schizophrenia: Towards computational neuropsychiatry"
Jan 31 Timothy Vickery (Dept. of Psychology, Yale)
"Decoding Decisions and Reward in the Human Brain"
*Feb 7 Kai von Fintel (Dept. of Linguistics, MIT)
Feb 14 William Hirst (Dept. of Psychology, The New School)
"Social Aspects of Memory: The role of conversations in inducing forgetting and forming collective memories"
Feb 21 David Badre (Dept. of Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences, Brown)
"Prefrontal Cortex and Hierarchical Control of Behavior"
Feb 28 Sharon Thompson-Schill (Dept. of Psychology, Pennsylvania)
"Cognitive Control, Conceptual Retrieval, and Creativity" [Abstract]
Mar 6 SPRING BREAK
Mar 13 SPRING BREAK
*Mar 20 Susan Carey (Dept. of Psychology, Harvard)
"The Origin of Concepts: Causal Representations"
Mar 27 Nathan Novemsky (Yale School of Management)
"How Attention Influences Similarity Judgments AND How Feelings During Goal Pursuit Influence Evaluations"
*Apr 3 Dorothy Cheney (Dept. of Biology, Pennsylvania)
"The Function and and Mechanisms of Cooperation in Non-Human Primates"
Apr 10 Andrea Patalano (Dept. of Psychology, Wesleyan)
"When and How We Choose: Information search and self-perceived indecisiveness"
Apr 17 Presentations by 1st year students
- Chaz Firestone: "The Psychological Reality of Shape Skeletons (as revealed by the world's simplest psychology experiment)"
- Sam Johnson: "Does Wine Make You Dream? Intransitivity in Causal Judgment"
- Becky van den Honert: "Understanding Neural Interactions with Dynamic Causal Modeling"
* Cognitive Science series