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  • 2018 Apr 12

    JohnMark Taylor

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Room 765 William James Hall

    Nonlinear Mixed Selectivity Coding in the Human Brain

    Recent work in neurophysiology has identified neurons that are tuned to heterogeneous combinations of task and stimulus variables, which computational modeling suggests may endow these neurons with vast representational flexibility. However, the prevalence of this neural coding principle remains unstudied in the human brain. In two studies, fMRI was used to probe the existence of this nonlinear mixed selectivity coding in the human brain in the context of task-directed visual processing and visual...

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  • 2018 Apr 05

    Hyowon Gweon

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Room 765 William James Hall
  • 2018 Mar 22

    Samuel Mehr

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Room 765 William James Hall

    Psychological functions of music in infancy

    Samuel Mehr
    Research Associate
    Principal Investigator, Music Lab
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University
     

    In 1871, Darwin wrote, “As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man in reference to his daily habits of life, they must be ranked among the most mysterious with which he is endowed.” Nearly 150 years later, the psychological...

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  • 2018 Mar 01

    Kay Tye

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Room 765 William James Hall

    Kay Tye
    Associate Professor, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
    Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Title: Neural Circuits Underlying Positive and Negative Valence

    The Tye Lab is interested in understanding how neural circuits important for driving positive and negative motivational valence (seeking pleasure or avoiding punishment) are anatomically, genetically and functionally arranged.  We study the neural mechanisms that underlie a wide range of behaviors ranging from learned to innate,...

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  • 2018 Feb 22

    Emilie Josephs

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Room 765 William James Hall

    Emilie Josephs
    PhD Student, Konkle Lab
    Department of Psychology

    Title: Objects, scenes, and the spaces in between: Dissociable representations for intermediate-scale “reachspaces”

    Our experience in the world involves perceiving many scales of depth, but most visual perception research has focused on the extremes: how we perceive single objects, and how we resolve large scales spaces such as scenes. How are near-scale spaces, such as office desk-tops or dining room place-settings processed? In this talk, I will introduce a new class of stimuli, called “...

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