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2026-2027
Sept 9, 2026 – William Koller – Measuring latent cause inference in schizophrenia
2025-2026
Sept 10, 2025 – Peter Frank Hitchcock – Computational Models of Self-judgment and Repetitive Negative Thinking
Sept 24, 2025 – Gaurav Patel – Pathways of Social Inference
Oct 8, 2025 – Tim Clarel – Coward: An n=1 Study of Extreme Anxiety
Oct 22, 2025 – Nicole Karcher – Characterizing Risk for Worsening Psychosis Spectrum Symptoms in Youth
Nov 5, 2025 – Nicole Rust – A New-New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry
Nov 19, 2025 – Angela Radulescu – A Reinforcement Learning Perspective on Cognition and Motivation in Bipolar Disorder
Dec 3, 2025 – Hannah Snyder – Risk mechanisms for internalizing psychopathology: Cognition and stress during the transition to adulthood
Dec 17, 2025 – Silvia Lopez-Guzman – Metacognition for value-based choices: computational process and implications for psychiatry
Jan 28, 2026 – Payam Piray – Two kinds of uncertainty, two kinds of learning failure
Feb 11, 2026 – Miriam Klein-Flügge – Studying human affective decision-making in deep cortical and subcortical brain circuits
Feb 25, 2026 – Golia Shafiei – Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health
Mar 11, 2026 – Claire Gillan – Hidden habits, adaptation, and compulsivity
Mar 25, 2026 – Robb Rutledge – A computational and neural model for mood dynamics
Apr 22, 2026 – Vinny Costa – Dissociable Effects of Curiosity and Hedonic Valence on Reinforcement Learning
May 20, 2026 – Vanessa Brown – Anxiety is distinctly associated with maladaptive exploration of uncertainty
Jun 3, 2026 – Christopher Rozell – Brain Biomarkers for Understanding Depression Recovery with Deep Brain Stimulation
Jun 17, 2026 – Alexander Shackman – The Nature and the Neurobiology of Anxiety
2024-2025
Sept 11, 2024 – Avram Holmes – Identifying network-level signatures of affective and psychotic pathology
Sept 25, 2024 – Julia Sheffield – Prior expectations of volatility as a putative cognitive mechanism of persecutory delusions
Oct 9, 2024 – Jonathan Rosier – A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression
Oct 23, 2024 – Gabriela Rosenblau – Characterizing social knowledge representations and their role in social learning across clinical and non-clinical groups
Nov 6, 2024 – Nadja R. Ging-Jehli – Beyond mechanistic models: Leveraging physiological measures to dissect learning and social cooperation processes in mood and neurodevelopmental disorders
Nov 20, 2024 – Isaac Fradkin – No man is an island? Exploring impairments in semantic cognition and communication as pathways toward interpersonal computational psychiatry
Dec 4, 2024 – Rick Adams – Using computational modelling to explore excitatory and inhibitory function in cortical circuits in schizophrenia
Dec 18, 2024 – AZA Stephen Allsop – Decoding Mechanisms and Creating Tools for Social Connection
Jan 29, 2025 – Salman Qasim – How can direct-brain recordings inform computational cognitive science and psychiatry?
Mar 12, 2025 – Aaron Bornstein – Rationalizing individual differences in decision-making, across the lifespan
Mar 26, 2025 – Kirsten Ziman – Modeling the Attention of Others
Apr 9, 2025 – Austin Avery Coley – Visualizing the Longitudinal Development of Stress-Induced Anhedonia From Representations of Valence in the PFC
Apr 23, 2025 – Laura Alethia de la Fuente – Subjectivity in Motion: Bridging Experience and Brain States
May 7, 2025 – Augustin C. Hennings – Cognitive and neural processes supporting successful memory suppression
May 21, 2025 – Zhiping Pang – Utilizing Human Neurons to Understand Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Jun 4, 2025 – Morgan Barense – Enhancing real-world event memory
Jun 18, 2025 – Laura Kaltwasser – Altered States of Self – Exploring a Spatio-temporal Hierarchy of Self-Processing in the Human Brain
Jun 18, 2025 – Peter Frank Hitchcock – Computational Models of Self-judgment and Repetitive Negative Thinking
2023-2024
Sept 13, 2023 – Mor Nahum – Ecological Momentary Assessment of Cognitive Control and Mood in Mental Health
John Purcell Uncertain Decision-making in Schizophrenia: Investigating Biases in Evidence, Search, Integration, and Generalization
Oct 25, 2023 – Emma Herms – Modeling Decision-Making in Schizophrenia: Associations Between Computationally Derived Risk Propensity and Self-Reported Risk Perception
Nov 8, 2023 – Andrew Westbrook – Neuromodulation and cognitive effort
Nov 15, 2023 – Shirley Wang – Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
Nov 29, 2023 – Roy Salomon – Using Virtual Hallucinations to understand the Sense of Reality
Dec 13, 2023 – Nancy Lundin – Cognitive and neural markers of foraging during memory search for understanding thought and speech organization in psychosis
Feb 7, 2024 – Peter Manza – Dopamine kinetics and brain function: insights from simultaneous PET-fMRI
Feb 21, 2024 – Nili Solomonov – How can we do better? Identifying mechanisms of action as a path to precision psychotherapies for depression
Mar 6, 2024 – Christine Constantinople – Circuit Mechanisms Determining Dopamine’s Role in Learning Versus Moving
Mar 20, 2024 – Melissa Brotman – Translation, Treatment, and Technology: An Integrative Approach to Pediatric Psychopathology
Apr 3, 2024 – Aaron Heller – Ecological drivers of emotion and their links to individual differences in depression
Apr 17, 2024 – Rebecca Kazinka – A Computational Model of Spite Sensitivity to Understand Persecutory Ideation
May 1, 2024 – Michael Treadway – Effort-Expenditure and Its Discontents
May 29, 2024 – Warren Mansell – Perceptual Control Theory as a Framework for Computational Psychiatry
June 12, 2024 – Katharina Schmack – Computational psychiatry across species to probe the biology of hallucinations
June 26, 2024 – Alexander Harris – Neural circuit activity underlying stress and reward seeking
2022-2023
Caroline Jahn
Sept 28, 2022 – Courtney Forbes – Associations Between Neural Activity During Reward-Effort Decision-Making and Suicidal Ideation in a Recently Traumatized Sample
Oct 12, 2022 – Judith Mildner – The dynamics of spontaneous thought in mood disorders
Oct 26, 2022 – Jessica Schleider – Scaling Single-Session Interventions to Bridge Gaps in Mental Healthcare Ecosystems
Nov 2, 2022 – Eric Nook – Using Language to Measure and Modify Emotion Regulation and Mental Health: From the Lab to the E-Clinic
Nov 16, 2022 – Caroline Bévalot – The Bayesian Battery : An analysis of brain computations under uncertainty
Nov 30, 2022 – Hayley Brooks – Temporal context effects in risky monetary decision-making
Dec 14, 2022 – Ann Haynos – Too Much of a Good Thing? Modeling Excess Goal Pursuit in Anorexia Nervosa
Feb 1, 2023 – Gal Shoval – Workshop on Psychopathology Diagnosis
Feb 15, 2023 – Frederike Petzschner – Computational Models of Compulsivity
Feb 22, 2023 – Laura Bustamante – Internal CCNP Project Talk
Mar 1, 2023 – Yael Milgram – Motivation for emotional pleasure and pain in psychopathology
Mar 15, 2023 – Oriel FeldmanHall – Navigating our uncertain social worlds
Mar 29, 2023 – Ignacio Saez – Intracranial recordings of value: unveiling the neurophysiological substrates of human decision-making with intracranial recordings
Apr 12, 2023 – Ryan Smith – Active Learning Impairments in Substance Use Disorders when Solving the Explore-Exploit Dilemma: Longitudinal Stability, Symptom Prediction, and Replication
May 10, 2023 – Matthew Rushworth – Interactions between neuromodulatory systems and cortex during initiation and switching of behaviour
May 24, 2023 – Hyojeong Kim – Removing thoughts via replacement, suppression, and clearing
May 24, 2023 – Hyojeong Kim – Removing thoughts via replacement, suppression, and clearing
Shira Lupkin
2021-2022
Sept 22, 2021 – Kean Hsu – Cognitive dysfunction in depression: implications for risk, maintenance, and treatment
Sept 29, 2021 – Anne Collins – Executive contributions to reinforcement learning computations in humans
Oct 6, 2021 – Stefano Palminteri – Context-Dependence Induces False Memories of Economic Values: A Test Across Three Decision-Making Modalities and Four Preference Elicitation Methods
Oct 13, 2021 – Kyo Iigaya – Neural computation underlying subjective value construction
Oct 27, 2021 – Chris Summerfield – Structuring knowledge in the human brain
Nov 10, 2021 – Clay Holroyd – The Role of Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Hierarchical Model-based Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning: A Retrospective
Dec 1, 2021 – Michael Browning – Pramipexole Enhances Reward Learning by Preserving Value Estimates
Dec 15, 2021 – Laura Bustamante – Motivation for cognitive and physical effort in depression
Feb 2, 2022 – Vanessa Brown – Understanding and Treating Learning Dysfunctions in Anxiety
Feb 23, 2022 – Yael Niv – Trial by trial model fitting workshop, part I
March 2, 2022 – Candace Raio – The effects of stressor exposure on goal-directed control and decision-making
March 16, 2022 – Travis Baker – Decisions under the influence of TMS and augmented reality: Opportunities for computational modeling
March 30, 2022 – Jessica Hamilton – Leveraging technology to understand and modify sleep and social media in adolescent suicide risk
April 6, 2022 – Yael Niv – Trial by trial model fitting workshop, part II: Model Comparison
April 20, 2022 – Woo-Young Ahn – Rapid and reliable digital phenotyping using computational modeling, machine learning, and mobile technology
May 4, 2022 – Matt Nassar – Latent states for adaptive learning: using structure for dynamics
May 11, 2022 – Avram Holmes – Multi-scale convergence of functional imaging and genomic signatures of psychiatric illness risk
May 18, 2022 – David Zald – Integrating computational models with neuroimaging (Workshop Part 3)
May 25, 2022 – Joo-Hyun Song – How does action training affect perception and cognition?
June 15, 2022 – Eran Eldar – The computational varieties of emotion
June 22, 2022 – Laura Berner – Identifying and targeting cognitive control dysfunction in bulimia nervosa
2020-2021
Sep 16, 2020 – Thorsten Kahnt – What is the contribution of human orbitofrontal cortex to decision making?
Sep 30, 2020 – David Zald – The Emotional Attentional Blink
Oct 14, 2020 – Michael J Frank – Linking levels of analysis from brain to behavior in model fitting
Oct 28, 2020 – Frederike Petzschner – Computational models for compulsivity: Structure learning and control in OCD and gambling disorder
Nov 11, 2020 – Jennifer Siegel – Computational mechanisms of moral inference in Borderline Personality Disorder
Feb 3, 2021 – David Lydon-Staley – “Bit by bit, putting it together”: Enriching our understanding of health and well-being by intensively sampling daily life
Feb 24, 2021 – Stephanie Groman – Probing the neurobiology of addiction pathology
Mar 3, 2021 – Daniela Schiller – Navigating social space
Mar 17, 2021 – Alex Millner – Computational Approaches to Understanding Suicide
Apr 14, 2021 – Peter Hitchcock – Why Modeling Time and Context is Critical for (Some) Mental Health Problems
May 12, 2021 – Mariya V. Cherkasova – Risky business: the effects of reward cues on decision making in models of addiction
May 26, 2021 – Iris Vilares – Computational phenotyping in Borderline Personality Disorder using a Social Hierarchy Probe
Jun 23, 2021 – Wayne Fisher – Using quantitative models to improve treatments for destructive behavior in children with autism
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