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CBB talk series
The Cognitive Brown Bag (CBB) is a graduate student organized talk series, primarily attended by the faculty, graduate students, and staff from the cognitive labs at Dartmouth College. A list of past CBB talks can be found here.
Organizers: Benjamin Graul (Wager lab) , Zizhuang Miao (Wager lab), and Deepasri Prasad (Robertson lab).
Academic year 2025-2026
All talks will be held from 1:10-2:10 p.m., unless otherwise noted.
Winter term
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
| Tues, 2/17 | Serra Favila (Brown University) | Transforming visual experiences into adaptive long-term memories | Humans rely on episodic memory to guide behavior, yet our memories are incomplete, noisy, and biased. My lab investigates the cognitive and neural pressures that shape the visual content of memory, aiming to understand how structured memory transformations promote adaptive behavior. In this talk, I will focus on the role of competition between related memories in reorganizing representations. I will first describe fMRI experiments characterizing how the hippocampus and visual system support recall in the face of memory competition. I will then turn to the role of stimulus similarity, a core component of models of memory interference and generalization. I will present new work demonstrating that contemporary neural networks can approximate fundamental principles of human similarity judgments performed on natural images, highlighting opportunities to use artificial networks in a theory-driven manner to understand memory. Together, these experimental and computational approaches make progress toward a framework that specifies how the brain structures visual experience into useful long-term memories. |
| Tues, 3/3 | |||
| Wentao Si (Dartmouth College, Tse lab) | |||
| Yugantar Prakash (Dartmouth College, Murray lab) |
Spring term
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
| Tues, 4/7 | |||
| Eunhye Choe (Dartmouth College, Tse lab) | |||
| Cove Geary (Dartmouth College, Murray lab) | |||
| Tues, 4/14 | James Howard (Brandeis University) | ||
| Tues, 4/21 | |||
| Deepasri Prasad (Dartmouth College, Robertson lab) | |||
| Peter Angeli (Dartmouth College, Robertson lab) | |||
| Tues, 4/28 | |||
| Byeol Kim (Dartmouth College, Wager lab) | |||
| Atlas Shahamati (Dartmouth College, Soltani lab) | |||
| Tues, 5/12 | |||
| Zizhuang Miao (Dartmouth College, Wager lab) | |||
| Antônio Mello (Dartmouth College, Duchaine lab) | |||
| Tues, 5/26 | |||
| Aryan Yazdanpanah (Dartmouth College, Soltani lab) | |||
| Eun Tack Cho (Dartmouth College, Murray lab) |