Penn Psychology History Of The Department Colloquium
September 24, 2020
Paul and Marty concentrate on our history, particularly the aspects they knew intimately, rather than rendering a global history. They hope their stories will have implications for our long-term future as a department.
Steven Pinker, Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
February 10, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: The Emperor, the Elephant, and the Matzo Ball: Common Knowledge as a Ratifier of Relationships
Faculty Host: Coren Apicella
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*CANCELLED* Nick Turk-Browne, Professor of Psychology, Yale University
March 23, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Elizabeth Cauffman, Professor of Psychological Science, Education and Law, UC Irvine
March 2, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: Arrested Development: Adolescent Development & Juvenile Justice
Faculty Host: Sara Jaffee
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Lila Davachi, Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
February 24, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: The life of a memory: rest, reactivating and reorganization
Faculty Host: Anna Schapiro
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Paul Frick, Professor, Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University
January 27, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: "What makes some youth aggressive and violent and what can we do about it?
Faculty Host: Rebecca Waller
URL for more information:
https://www.lsu.edu/hss/psychology/faculty/clinical/frick.php
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
December 2, 2019
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: "Genetic and behavioral dissection of neural circuits for touch and pain"
Faculty Host: Rebecca Waller
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Keith Holyoak, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA
October 21, 2019
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: "Semantic Relations in Minds, Brains, and Machines"
Faculty Host: Sudeep Bhatia
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Rebecca Saxe, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 25, 2019
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: Early origins of social brain
Faculty Host: Anna Jenkins
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