Schedule
Winter 2021
To see the updated winter schedule visit the following link:
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fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 11 | ||
| Sep 18 | ||
| Sep 25 | Departmental seminar | |
| Oct 2 | ||
| Oct 9 | ||
| Oct 16 | YanFei Song | Does social attention manifest similarly across virtual and in-person settings? |
| Oct 23 | Dr Peggy St. Jacques | Multiple Visual Perspectives in Memories for Events |
| Oct 30 | Departmental seminar | |
| Nov 6 | Dr Peter Dixon | Mind wandering and temporal focus |
| Nov 13 |
Reading Week | |
| Nov 20 | Dr Elena Nicoladis | All memories are mine: Preschool children include events from multiple sources in remembering events from their lives |
| Nov 27 | Departmental seminar | |
| Dec 4 | Yanfei Qi | Does social attention manifest similarly across virtual and in-person settings? |
| Dec 11 | (during final exam period) |
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Winter 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan-10 | _ | Cancelled |
| Jan-17 | Dr Alex Taikh | Finding language (and language learning) in the brain |
| Jan-24 | Dr Brea Chouinard | Decoding words from phrases: Impact of composition on word representations in MEG measurements of picture naming |
| Jan-31 | No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | --- |
| Feb-07 | Dr Peter Dixon | Measuring the flexibility of nonlinear models |
| Feb-14 | Sarah Sheldon | Effects of Covert Attention on Orientation Detection and Perception: An EEG study |
| Feb-21 | No CogSem due to Reading Week | --- |
| Feb-28 | (tentative) departmental seminar | --- |
| Mar-06 | Dr Elena Nicoladis | I can't get that pitch metaphor out of my head |
| Mar-13 | Dr Ben Dyson | Using game spaces to understand the dynamics of competitive decision-making |
| Mar-20 | Dr Peggy St Jacques | Cancelled (due to COVID-19 lockdown) |
| Mar-27 | (tentative) No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | --- |
| Apr-03 | Good Friday | --- |
| Apr-10 | Kate(Xuehui) Lei | Cancelled (due to COVID-19 lockdown) |
| Apr-17 | Dr Claudia Gonzalez | Cancelled (due to COVID-19 lockdown) |
| Apr-24 | (tentative) departmental seminar | --- |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 6 | _ | _ |
| Sep 13 | _ | _ |
| Sep 20 | ||
| Sep 27 | No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Oct 4 | Dr Chris Westbury | The heterophenomenology of affective word judgments: Why we shouldn’t trust what people say they feel about words? |
| Oct 11 | Dr Jeremy Caplan | Models of association-memory: mistreatment or bonus feature? |
| Oct 18 | Dr David Sidhu | Studies of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity |
| Oct 25 | No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Nov 1 | Cancelled | --- |
| Nov 8 | Dr Hamad Al-Azary | Metaphor and Semantic Richness: Less is More |
| Nov 15 |
No CogSem due to Reading Week | _ |
| Nov 22 | Jeremy Thomas | The Nature of Interactive Imagery as a Strategy for Association Memory and its Implications for Mathematical Modelling |
| Nov 29 | (tentative) No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Dec 6 | Dr Dana Hayward | Load, dilution, or something else? “Cluttering up” the face to explore social attention |
WINTER 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 19 | No CogSem due to Good Friday | |
| Apr 18 | Magda Jordão (Special talk on Thursday in BS P116) | Age-related differences in the quantity and quality of spontaneous thought |
| Apr 12 | _ | _ |
| Apr 5 | No CogSem due to Royce Conference | _ |
| Mar 29 | _ | _ |
| Mar 22 | _ | _ |
| Mar 15 | Sucheta Chakravarty | Using brain activity during study to predict future memory |
| Mar 8 | Dr. Albert Vette | From postural system identification to gait stability assessment – the value of the Computer-Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) in human movement research |
| Mar 1 | No CogSem due to Departmental seminar | _ |
| Feb 22 | No CogSem due to Reading week | _ |
| Feb 15 | Dr. Cody Freas | Navigational Cue Use and Integration in Socially and Individually Foraging Ant Species |
| Feb 8 | _ | _ |
| Feb 1 | Dr. Elena Nicoladis | Does knowing “vélo” and “bicyclette” make a difference in novel word learning? |
| Jan 25 | No CogSem due to Departmental seminar | _ |
| Jan 18 | Dr. Jacqueline Cummine | From Lollipops to Lidocaine: Changes in Somatosensory Feedback Modifies Word Recognition Performance |
| Jan 11 | Dr. Peter Dixon | But just how big should the effect be, anyway? A core qustion for statistical inference |
FALL 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 7 | Dr. Jeremy Caplan | Congruity effects in memory and comparative judgement |
| Nov 30 | Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Nov 23 | Cancelled | _ |
| Nov 16 | No CogSem due to Reading Week | _ |
| Nov 9 | Sarah Sheldon | Effects of Random Fluctuations in Alpha Oscillations on Orientation Detection: An EEG Study |
| Nov 2 | Hajin Lee | Influence of Cultural Contexts on Daily Stress Experiences |
| Oct 26 | Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Oct 19 | Dr. Chris Westbury | Why is prenominal adjective orders such a fat big deal? |
| Oct 12 | Wenjing He &
Dr. Xianta Jiang |
Synchronization of
pupil dilations reveals team performance Measuring Surgeon's Workload in OR using Eye-tracker Technology |
| Oct 5 | Dr. Vadim Bulikto | Artificial General Intelligence via A-life |
| Sep 28 | No CogSem due to Mental Lexicon 2018 | _ |
| Sep 21 | Week of distinguished lecture series | _ |
| Sep 14 | Cancelled | _ |
| Sep 7 | _ | _ |
Winter 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 6 | Royce Conference | _ |
| Mar 30 | Good Friday | _ |
| Mar 23 | Lin Wang | Effects of Familiarity and Room Size on the Interaction between Geometry and Features during Reorientation |
| Mar 16 | Geoff Hollis | A model of Classical Conditioning: applied to animal learning and language learning |
| Mar 2 | Aishah Abdul Rahman | Inhibition in Children: the effect of time pressure and emotion |
| Feb 23 | Reading Week | _ |
| Feb 16 | Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Jan 26 | Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Jan 12 | Jeremy Caplan | Ebbinghaus is flipping in his grave: recalling lists backward, chunking, and the case for an associative basis of serial-order memory |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 8 | Daphne Vrantsidis | Children's Executive Functions in Context |
| Dec 1 | Kyle Mathewson | Attention as a movement |
| Nov 24 | No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Nov 17 | No CogSem due to Reading Week | _ |
| Nov 10 | No CogSem due to Psychonomics | _ |
| Nov 3 | Lei Zhang | Cue combination of visual landmarks and path integration in human spatial positioning |
| Oct 27 | Chris Westbury | Schooling Chomsky's Imagination: unifying morphology, semantics and pos tagging as vector computation |
| Oct 20 | Week of Distinguished lecture series | _ |
| Oct 13 | Michael Wohl | Words are like dust in the wind: intergroup apologies and the rocky road to reconciliation |
| Oct 6 | _ | _ |
| Sep 29 | No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Sep 22 | Vadim Bulitko | Towards Positively Surprising Non-Player Characters in Video Games |
| Sep 15 | _ | _ |
| Sep 08 | No CogSem due to Department meeting | _ |
Winter 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 21 | Daphne Vrantsidis | to be updated |
| Apr 14 | No CogSem due to Good Friday | _ |
| Apr 7 | Norman Brown | Autobiographical Memories: (Mostly) Selfless and (Almost Always) Vivid |
| Mar 31 | No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Mar 24 | No CogSem due to Annual Royce Conference | _ |
| Mar 17 | Marcia Spetch and Vadim Bulitko | Navigation and search behaviour in Sonoran desert ants |
| Mar 10 | No CogSem due to Neuroscience Research Day | _ |
| Mar 3 | No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Feb 24 | No CogSem due to Reading week | _ |
| Feb 17 | No CogSem due to Annual Council meeting | _ |
| Feb 10 | Jeremy Caplan and Sucheta Chakravarty | Reward driven memory biases may be due to utility rather than value |
| Feb 3 | Gautham Vasan | Learning from demonstration: teaching a myoelectric prosthesis with an intact limb via reinforcement learning |
| Jan 27 | No CogSem due to Departmental Seminar | _ |
| Jan 20 | _ | _ |
| Jan 13 | No CogSem due to Distinguished Lecture Series | _ |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 2 | Peter Dixon | Assessing Mind Wandering and Comprehension |
| Nov 25 | No cogsem due to department seminar | _ |
| Nov 18 | Jeffrey Pisklak | Hunting for Woozles: Testing the Functional Role of Near Miss Events on Behabiour |
| Nov 11 | No cogsem due to reading week | _ |
| Nov 4 | Jeremy Caplan | Justin and Pierre, Hillary and Bill: Associative Interference and its Resolution |
| Oct 28 | No cogsem due to department seminar | _ |
| Oct 21 | Jonathan Kuziek | Walking the Path Towards Mobile EEG Experimentation |
| Oct 14 | No cogsem | _ |
| Oct 7 | Karen (Yu) DU | Unidirectional influence of vision on interoception in multi-modal spatial representations acquired from navigation |
| Sep 30 | No cogsem due to department seminar | _ |
| Sep 23 | Lei Zhang | Selective resetting position and heading estimations during driving in a large-scale environment |
| Sep 16 | Chris Westbury | Beyond ‘takete’ and ‘maluma’: Using big data to understand sound symbolism |
Winter 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 22 | Yvonne Chen | Neural correlate of memory: from encoding to retrieval |
| Apr 15 | No cogsem due to department seminar | _ |
| Apr 8 | Ruojing Zhou | When a boundary does not rule: Unpacking localization and cognitive mapping process relative to a boundary cue |
| Apr 1 | Tomi Ann Limcangco and Kenichi Kato | James Dean or Dean James? Order memory with pairs of words |
| Mar 25 | No cogsem due to Good Friday | _ |
| Mar 18 | No cogsem due to Brain Week | _ |
| Mar 11 | No cogsem due to Royce Conference | _ |
| Mar 4 | Matthew Russell | Culture, Sociality, and Attention to Context |
| Feb 26 | No cogsem due to department seminar | _ |
| Feb 19 | No cogsem due to reading week | _ |
| Feb 12 | Amelia Shi | The Structure and Content of Autobiographical Events. |
| Feb 5 | Neil McMillan | Pigeons don't wear watches: So what's the deal with interval timing? |
| Jan 29 | No cogsem due to department seminar | _ |
| Jan 22 | Sandra Wiebe | Cognitive flexibility in early and middle childhood: Insights from behaviour and ERPs |
| Jan 15 | Esther Fujiwara (Co-sponsored with department seminar) | Neuropsychiatry of decision making |
| Jan 8 | Christopher Madan | Making reward-related decisions from experience: Considering the role of memory |