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2024-2025
Salman Qasim How can direct-brain recordings inform computational cognitive science and psychiatry
Aaron Bornstein Rationalizing individual differences in decison-making across the lifespan
Kirsten Ziman Modeling the Attention of Others
Austin Avery Coley Visualizing the Longitudinal Development of Stress-Induced Anhedonia From Representations of Valence in the PFC
Laura Alethia de la Fuente Subjectivity in Motion: Bridging Experience and Brain States
Augustin C. Hennings Cognitive and neural processes supporting successful memory supression
Zhiping Pang Utilizing Human Neurons to Understand Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Morgan Barense Enhancing real-world event memory
Laura Kaltwasser Altered States of Self- Exploring a Spatial-temporal Hierarchy of Self-Processing in the Human Brain
2023-2024
Mor Nahum Ecological Momentary Assessment of Cognitive Control and Mood in Mental Health
Aaron Heller Ecological Drivers of Emotion and Their Links to Individual Differences in Depression
John Purcell Uncertain Decision-making in Schizophrenia: Investigating Biases in Evidence, Search, Integration, and Generalization
Emma Herms Modeling Decision-Making in Schizophrenia: Associations Between Computationally Derived Risk Propensity and Self-Reported Risk Perception
Andrew Westbrook Neuromodulation and cognitive effort
Shirley Wang Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
Roy Salomon Using Virtual Hallucinations to Understand the Sense of Reality
Nancy Lundin Cognitive and Neural Markers of Foraging During Memory Search for Understanding Thought and Speech Organization in Psychosis
Peter Manza Dopamine kinetics and brain function: insights from simultaneous PET-fMRI
Nili Solomonov How can we do better? Identifying mechanisms of action as a path to precision psychotherapies for depression
Christine Constantinople Circuit Mechanisms Determining Dopamine’s Role in Learning Versus Moving
Melissa Brotman Translation, Treatment, and Technology: An Integrative Approach to Pediatric Psychopathology
Rebecca Kazinka A Computational Model of Spite Sensitivity to Understand Persecutory Ideation
Michael Treadway Effort-Expenditure and Its Discontents
2022-2023
Caroline Jahn
Courtney Forbes
Judith Mildner
Jessica Schleider
Erik Nook
Caroline Bevalot
Hayley Brooks
Ann Haynos
Gal Shoval
Frederike Petzschner
Laura Bustamante
Yael Milgram
Oriel FeldmanHall
Ignacio Saez
Ryan Smith
Matthew Rushworth
Hyo Jeong Kim
Manny Alvarez
Shira Lupkin
2021-2022
(Pending Update)
2020-2021
(Pending Update)
2019-2020
Nov 6, 2019 – Michael Cole – Brain network organization as the computational architecture of cognition: Implications for mental health
Nov 20, 2019 – Hanna Keren – The power of closing the loop: controlling and understanding mood via the Mood-Machine-Interface
Dec 4, 2019 – Theodore Satterthwaite – Integrating complex and personalized data to understand brain development and psychopathology
Jan 15, 2020 – Nitzan Shahar – Credit assignment to state-independent task representations
Feb 12, 2020 – Quentin Huys – Neurocognitive Predictors of Depression Relapse
Mar 11, 2020 – Ran Barzilay – The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology
Apr 1, 2020 – Mateo Leganes-Fonteneau – Avoiding pitfalls: Bayes factors can be a reliable tool for post hoc data selection in implicit learning
May 20, 2020 – Gal Shoval – Is adherence to antidepressant medications associated with increased longevity?
June 24, 2020 – Lauren Atlas – Pain, expectation, and value-based learning
2018-2019
Sep 19, 2018 – Kathryn Biernacki – Decision-making impairment in long-term opioid users
Oct 3, 2018 – Rivka Cohen – A learning and memory model of major depression
Oct 17, 2018 – Sarah Yip – Connectome-based prediction of substance-use
Oct 31, 2018 – Guillermo Horga – Deficient belief updating as a convergent computational mechanism of psychosis
Nov 14, 2018 – Xiaosi Gu – The social brain: how we detect norms and influence others
Feb 6, 2019 – Akram Bakkour – How does memory guide decisions: implications for psychiatry
Mar 6, 2019 – David Hsu – The Need to Belong and Depression: A View from the Brain
Mar 20, 2019 – Leor Hackel – Instrumental learning in social interaction
Apr 3, 2019– Evan Kleiman – How can new technology help us better understand suicidal thoughts and behaviors?
Apr 24, 2019 – Jay Singh – Psychiatry & Violence: Biological & Psychosocial Assessment
May 15, 2019 – Joe Kable – The depressed decision-maker
2017-2018
Sep 6, 2017 – Emanuel Bubl – Vision in psychiatric disorders
Sep 20, 2017 – Travis Baker – Optimizing multi-modal neuroimaging methods to examine and improve reward functioning in addiction
Oct 4, 2017 – Jordan Hamm – Unreliable neocortical ensemble activity in pharmacological and genetic mouse models supports an attractor pathophysiology of schizophrenia
Nov 8, 2017 – Philipp Sterzer – Predictions, perception, and psychosis
Nov 29, 2017 – Phil Corlett – Beliefs and the Brain: Computational Mechanisms of Hallucinations and Delusions
Dec 13, 2017 – Ida Momennejad – Selective spread of activation restructures memory: Toward a computational account of memory disorders and cognitive therapy
Jan 17, 2018 – Douglas Munoz – A brain circuit for pupil orienting responses: implications for cognitive modulation of pupil size
Feb 7, 2018 – Avram Holmes – From molecules to madness: identifying network-level signatures of psychiatric illness risk
Feb 21, 2018 – Bart Krekelberg – Neuromodulation by transcranial alternating current stimulation: myths and mechanisms
April 4, 2018 – Alex Dombrovski – Selective information maintenance and the exploration/exploitation dilemma: adaptive behavior and borderline personality disorder
April 11, 2018 – Katy Thakkar – Visuomotor Prediction Abnormalities in the Schizophrenia Spectrum
April 18, 2018 – Guillermo Sapiro – Democratizing Developmental and Mental Health: All You Need is a Smart Phone – An Autism Study Example
May 2, 2018 – Robb Rutledge – A computational and neural model for mood dynamics
2016-2017
Sep 18, 2016 – Yuli Fradkin – The relationship of impulsivity and cortical thickness in depressed and non-depressed adolescents
Oct 26, 2016 – Peter Uhlhaas – Oscillations and Neuronal Dynamics in Schizophrenia: The Search for Basic Symptoms and Translational Opportunities
Nov 9, 2016 – Quentin Huys – Where to put emotions in RL?
Nov 30, 2016 – Deepu Murty – Mesolimbic-hippocampal interactions support adaptive and maladaptive behavior
Dec 7, 2016 – Manfred Spitzer – Digital Dementia – risks and side effects of digital media use in children and adolescents
Jan 18, 2017 – Sam Wang – The Cerebellum, Sensitive Periods, and Autism
Feb 1, 2017 – Ken Norman – How do retrieval dynamics drive learning? Insights from fMRI and computational models
Mar 1, 2017 – Eileen Kowler – Show me, don’t tell me: The role of cues, past experience, and beliefs in the generation of anticipatory eye movements
April 12, 2017 – Rita Goldstein – Neuroimaging in drug addiction: an eye towards intervention purposes
May 5, 2017 – CCNP Mini Symposium– Steve Silverstein, Molly Erickson, Nathaniel Daw, Yael Niv, Joshua Gordon
Apr 26, 2017 – Sabine Kastner – Neural dynamics of the primate attention network
Jordan Taylor – Taking aim at the cognitive side of motor learning
May 24, 2017 – Jordan Taylor – Taking aim at the cognitive side of motor learning
June 7, 2017 – Anna Konova – Addiction states as dynamic changes in valuation
June 21, 2017 – Prantik Kundu – Functional MRI of Thalamocortical and Arousal Circuitry Using Multi-Band Multi-Echo EPI
2015-2016
Nov 18, 2015 – Inaugural seminar: Claire Gillan – A Trans-Diagnostic Approach to Understanding Compulsive Behavior
Dec 2, 2015 – Steve Silverstein – Disorganization in Schizophrenia: Convergence of Clinical and Experimental Data with Information Theory and Neurobiology
Dec 9, 2015 – Susan Murphy (U Michigan) – Why/When might variation in treatment be therapeutic?
Dec 16, 2015 – Yael Niv – DYT1 dystonia increases risk taking in humans (including a short primer on reinforcement learning)
Jan 20, 2016 – Brian Keane – Visual disturbances as a window into schizophrenia
Feb 3, 2016 – Nathaniel Daw – Evaluation of overall environmental quality: theory, experiments and potential applications to mood disorders
Feb 17, 2016 – Liz Torres – Towards Precision Psychiatry: Statistical Platform for the Personalized Characterization of Natural Behaviors
Mar 2, 2016 – Megan deBettencourt – Externalizing internal mental states to train sustained attention behavior
Apr 13, 2016 – Nico Schuck – Mapping cognitive states in learning & decision-making
April 27, 2016 – Angela Radulescu – Learning, attention and cognitive aging: computational perspectives
May 25, 2016 – Molly Erickson – Mechanisms of visual working memory impairment in schizophrenia
June 8, 2016 – Peter Hitchcock – Malfunction and bounded rationality views of psychopathology
June 15, 2016 – Eran Eldar – The role of mood in reward learning: function and dysfunction
June 22, 2016 – Jared Van Snellenberg – When Working Memory Isn’t Working: Potential Biomarkers of Capacity and Mechanisms of Impairment in Schizophrenia