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Past CBB talks

Fall 2018-Spring 2019

Winter 2019

2/21: Sarah Oh (Dartmouth College)

3/14: Jonathan Freeman (NYU) - "More than meets the eye: Split-second social perception"

3/21: Lucy Owen (Dartmouth College) - "Decrypting the neural code"

Spring 2019

4/10: Shih-Wei Wu (National Yang-Ming University) - "Probability estimation and its neurocomputational substrates"

4/18: Sarah Herald (Dartmouth College) - "What is the role of left-hemisphere face areas?"

5/2: Vassiki Chauhan (Dartmouth College)

5/23: Kay Alfred (Dartmouth College) & Shiva Ghaanifarashahi (Dartmouth College)

5/30: Malinda McPherson (Harvard University) - "Multiple pitch mechanisms in music and speech perception"

Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Fall 2019

9/19: Graduate student data blitz

10/17: Mehran Moradi (Dartmouth College) - "Multiple timescales of neural dynamics and integration of task-relevant signals across cortex"

10/31: Mariam Aly (Columbia University) - "How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention"

11/7: Ratan Murty (MIT) - "Is visual experience necessary for the development of face selectivity in the lateral fusiform gyrus"

11/21: AJ Haskins (Dartmouth College) - "Active vision in immersive, 360° real-world environments: Methods and applications"

Winter 2020

1/30:  Rotem Botvinik-Nezer (Dartmouth College) - "Variability in the analysis of a single fMRI dataset by many teams"

2/13: Tommy Botch (Dartmouth College) - "How colorful is visual experience? Evidence from gaze-contingent virtual reality"


2/20: Giancarlo La Camera (Stonybrook University) - "Cortical computations via metastable activity"


2/27: Mohsen Rakhshan (Dartmouth College) - "Neural substrate underlying computations of volatility and adaptive learning in a complex environment" & Bogden Petre (Dartmouth College) - "Evoked pain intensity representation is distributed throughout the brain"

Spring 2020

5/7: Marvin Maechler (Dartmouth College) - "Attentional tracking takes place over perceived rather than physical locations" & Lucy Owen (Dartmouth College) - "What is the dimensionality of human thought?"


5/21: Sarah Herald (Dartmouth College) - "How are faces represented in the visual areas?"

6/4: Kirsten Ziman (Dartmouth College) & Heejung Jung (Dartmouth College)


6/12: Mary Kieseler (Dartmouth College)

Fall 2020

9/24: Graduate student data blitz

10/8: Doug Addelman (Dartmouth College) - "Characterizing conscious and unconscious guidance of spatial attention"

10/22: Mark Lescroart (University of Nevada, Reno) - "Body representations in the brain and bodies in natural visual experience"

11/5: Mehran Moradi (Dartmouth College) - "A neural dynamic approach to study the functional organization of the brain and learning"

11/19: Jiahui Guo (Dartmouth College) - "Predicting individual face-selective topography using naturalistic stimuli" & Lauren Williams (Dartmouth College) - "The invisible breast cancer: Experience does not protect against inattentional blindness to clinically-relevant findings in radiology"

12/3: Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT) - "Capacity limits and how the visual system copes with them"