Ebbinghaus Empire Series 2018-2019
All Ebbinghaus talks take place in room 3130 (3rd floor), Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted.ALL ARE WELCOME!
WINTER 2019
January 9 NICHOLAS GASPELIN, Binghampton University, State University of New York
Topic: The Role of Inhibition in the Avoidance of Attentional Capture
Video Recording of Talk
January 16 JAY PRATT, Psychology Department, University of Toronto
Topic: Attention, Context, and Responses: An eternal golden braid
Video Recording of Talk
January 23 CHAZ FIRESTONE, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
(http://perception.jhu.edu/chaz)
Topic: Taking a Machine’s Perspective
January 30 THANUJENI PATHMAN, Psychology Department, York University (http://pathman.info.yorku.ca/)
Topic: Time, Space and the Development of Episodic Memory
Video Recording of Talk
February 6 JED MELTZER, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest and University of Toronto
Topic: Right Brain, Left Brain - friends or foes? Interhemispheric cooperation and competition
Video Recording of Talk
February 13 CHERIE STRIKWERDA-BROWN, University of Sydney
Topic: The Episodic-Semantic Continuum in Autobiographical Memory and Future Thinking: A new classification system
Video Recording of Talk
February 20 No meeting this week - Reading Week
February 27 EUGENIE ROUDAIA, McMaster UniversityTopic: The Effects of Aging, Depth, and Sound on Dynamic Spatial Attention
Video Recording of Talk
March 6 CHRIS FACCIONI, University of Guelph
Topic: Inferences in Memory and Meta-memory
March 13 JONATHAN CANT, Psychology Department, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Topic: The Role of Ensemble Processing in Human Visual Cognition
Video Recording of Talk
March 20 DATA BLITZ
March 27 NO EBBINGHAUS
April 3 No meeting this week - Colloquium Lecture
Colloquium Speaker: LAURA SCHULTZ, MIT
For further information please contact Johnny Dubois at m.dubois@mail.utoronto.ca.
FALL 2018
September 12 Data Blitz
Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows present their research
Video Recording of Data Blitz
September 19 BUDDHIKA BELLANA, Psychology, University of Toronto
Topic: Recollection, prior knowledge and the angular gyrus
Video Recording of Talk
September 26 NICOLE GERVAIS, Psychology, University of Toronto
Topic: Role of ovarian hormones in memory and sleep across species
Video Recording of Talk
October 3 ARNE EKSTROM, University of California
Topic: Networks models of navigation and memory: What do we gain and why?
Video Recording of Talk
October 10 LAURA BATTERINK, Western University
Topic: Implicit learning, language acquisition, and their meeting point
Video Recording of Talk
October 17 JOSEPH WILLIAMS, Computer Science, University of Toronto
Topic: Leveraging technology to conduct field experiments and dynamically enhance and personalize user interfaces
Video Recording of Talk
October 24 MARGARET MOULSON, Ryerson University
Topic: Exploring how face exposure shapes the development of face perception in infancy
Video Recording of Talk
October 31 VLADIMIR SLOUTSKY, Ohio State University
Topic: An Adaptive Nature of Developmental Limitations
Video Recording of Talk
November 7 No meeting this week - Reading Week
November 14 No meeting this week - Colloquium Lecture
Colloquium Speaker: ELIZABETH BUFFALO, University of Washington
November 21 RANDY McINTOSH, Rotman Research Institute
Topic: Bridging data and theory with The Virtual Brain
Video Recording of Talk
November 28 MICHAEL BONE, Psychology, University of Toronto
Topic: Feature-specific neural reactivation during visual recollection
Video Recording of Talk
December 5 MASSIEH MOAYEDI, University of Toronto, Dentistry
Topic: How about this: Understanding pain-cognition interactions using a translational framework
For further information please contact Amy Finn at finn@psych.utoronto.ca or Michael Mack at mack@psych.utoronto.ca.