Ebbinghaus Empire

January 29
MIKE ESTERMAN  – Boston/Harvard University 
Title: Neurocognitive models of sustained attention
          
February 12    
CAMERON ELLIS – Yale University
Title: Infant fMRI - A model system for Cognetive Neuroscience
           
February 26    
ANNA SCHAPIRO –  University of Pennsylvania
Title: Learning distributed representations in the human brain
      
March 4    
LAUREN EMBERSON – Princeton University
Title: A developmental perspective on the role of familiar interlocutors in bilingual language separation
      
March 11    
ERIK WING – Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest
      
March 18    
BILL HOCKLEY – Wilfrid Laurier University
      
March 25    
DATA BLITZ 

Fall 2020

Nov 18    
MATTHIAS NIEMEIER – University of Toronto
Title: From the Prehension of Objects to the Comprehension of Others: Computational Principles and Neural Mechanisms

September 18
DATA BLITZ      

September 25    
ALEXA TOMPARY –  University of Pennsylvania
Title: The consequences of consolidation: Transformations in eqisodic memory

October 16    
DON MABBOTT – SickKidsTitle: White matter plasticity
      
October 30    
SAMUEL RONFARD – University of Toronto Mississauga
Title: Testing what you're told: The Development of the empirical stance
      
November 13    
STEPHANIE GOODHEW – Australian National University
Title: Emotion and attention: Understanding the mechanisms  
      
November 20    
WIL CUNNINGHAM – University of Toronto
Title: Social groups, humanization, and social-cognitive economy
      
November 27    
JENNIFER RABIN – Sunnybrook Research Institute
Title: Using amyloid and tau PET to examine modifiable risk factors in preclinical Alzheimer's disease
      
December 4    
MIN-SUK KANG –  Sungkyunkwan University
Title: Reduced reliance on working memory with distraction

January 10 BLAIR ARMSTRONG - University of Toronto
Title: The Temporal Dynamics of Ambiguous Word Comprehension

January 17MATT FEINBERG - Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 
Title: The Activist's Dilemma: The Trade-off between Raising Awareness and Recruiting Support

January 31 MONICA CASTELHANO - Queen's University
Title: The Scene-Object Link: Investigating how scene context does and does not influence processing

February 7 GEOFF WOODMAN - Vanderbilt University
Title: Using electrophysiology to measure long-term memory and working memory as they control attention trial by trial

February 14 BLAKE RICHARDS - University of Toronto
Title: Systems consolidation and forgetting - the benefits of easily forgotten memories

February 28 ADRIAN NESTOR - University of Toronto
Title: Elucidating the pictorial content of visual experience: Insights from image reconstruction

March 14 MEG SCHLICHTING - University of Toronto
Title: Encoding of interrelated memories across development

March 21MONIKA MOLNAR - University of Toronto
Title: A developmental perspective on the role of familiar interlocutors in bilingual language separation 

 March 28 YANG XU - University of TorontoTitle: Colexification across languages reflects cognitive economy

April 4 No meeting this week: COLLOQUIUM LECTURE (Speaker: Daphna Shohamy, Columbia University) Psychology graduate students & Post-Docs present their research

April 11 DATA BLITZ

January 18 KAREN CAMPBELL, Psychology Department, Brock University
Title: Finding the aging brain's natural capacity

January 25 ANDY LEE, Psychology Department, University of Toronto at Scarborough  
Title: Hippocampal contributions to approach-avoidance conflict decision-making: what do rodent and human studies tell us?

February 1 CENDRI HUTCHERSON, University of Toronto 
Title: Neurocomputational approaches to self-control in social and non-social contexts

February 8 KEISUKE FUKUDA, University of Toronto
Title: Why can't we remember everything we see? The role of visual working memory in visual long-term memory encoding and anelectrophysiological approach to aid human learning.

February 15 DAVID ANAKI, Bar-Ilan University 
Title: A network perspective of semantic memory: Implications on thought and language

March 1 JAY PRATT, University of Toronto 
Title: Capturing visual attention: The role of objects, ideas, events, and nothing

March 8 MICHAEL MACK, University of Toronto 
Title: The computations, representations, and neural machinery of category learning

March 14 AMIR AMEDI, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: An updated view on the origins of cortical selectivity in the Human Brain

March 15 ALLYSON MACKEY, University of Pennsylvania  
Title: Brain development and plasticity: Implications for learning and academic achievement

March 22 JESSICA CANTLON, University of Rochester Title: Math, monkeys, and the developing brain

March 29 DEBORAH TALMI, The University of Manchester Title: Context at the helm of the emotional modulation of memory

April 5 DATA BLITZ
Aedan (Yue) Li (Barense Lab): The impact of mnemonic interference on memory for visual form
Hause Lin (Inzlicht Lab): Do midfrontal theta oscillations and pupil responses track subjective conflict during value-guided choice?
Sarah Mossad (Taylor/Smith Labs): Neural correlates of Theory of Mind in very preterm born children
Julie Sato (Taylor Lab): Exploring functional connectivity networks underlying working memory processes in children born very preterm using MEG
Julia Young (Taylor/Smith Labs): Altered white matter development in children born very preterm
Veronica Yuk (Taylor Lab): Verbal and non-verbal communication in siblings of children with autism

Fall 2017

September 20 DATA BLITZ
Iva Brunec (Barense and Moscovitch Labs): Changes in coarse vs. fine voxelwise representations along the hippocampal anteroposterior axis across the lifespan
Amanda Easson (McIntosh Lab): Defining subtypes of autism spectrum disorder using static and dynamic functional connectivity
Aedan (Yue) Li: (Barense Lab) The creation and validation of a novel circular shape space
Shouyu Ling (Nestor Lab): EEG-Based Visual Word Decoding, Feature Derivation and Image Reconstruction
Alyssa Sinclair (Barense Lab): Surprise destabilizes episodic memories
Watch video of Data Blitz at https://play.library.utoronto.ca/bm_NIDUNn1b3

September 27 MICHAEL INZLICHT, Psychology Department, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Title: From the principle of least effort to the principle of least caring: Insights from the Empathy Selection Task

October 11 JESSICA ROBIN, University of Toronto, Baycrest
Title: Spatial context effects in episodic memory and imagination
Watch video of Jessica Robin talk at https://play.library.utoronto.ca/YCZl1_rAxG0O

October 18 CRAIG CHAMBERS, University of Toronto
Title: Linguistic reference and visual objects: At the intersection of percepts, concepts, and social cognition
Watch video of Craig Chambers talk at https://play.library.utoronto.ca/uwj_Zp6J87K

FRIDAY, October 27 MORTEN CHRISTIANSEN, Cornell University 
Special Friday Lecture
Title: The Now-or-Never Bottleneck: A Fundamental Constraint on Language
Watch video of Morten Christiansen talk at https://play.library.utoronto.ca/2cleO2LzPCm3

November 15 NOAM SIEGELMAN, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: Statistical learning as an individual ability 

November 22 SHELBIE SUTHERLAND, University of Toronto
Title: Learning category information across development
Watch video of Shelbie Sutherland talk at https://play.library.utoronto.ca/ZJ4piDNJi5SZ

November 29 NOA OFEN, Wayne State University
Title: Development of Memory Systems in the Human Brain
Watch video of Noa Ofen talk at https://play.library.utoronto.ca/0MMXw1vlgMv8

December 6 CORY MILLER, University of California San Diego
Title: Neurobiology of Marmoset 'Conversations'
Watch video of Cory Miller talk at https://play.library.utoronto.ca/nLvUkQ6hlDFk

January 20 MICHAEL SCHUTZ, McMaster University
Title: Dynamic sounds and perceptual processes: The surprising role of amplitude envelope in auditory perception
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

January 27 DOUG MUNOZ, Queen's University
Title: Using the eye movement system to probe brain function and dysfunction across the lifespan
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

February 3 JOERN DIEDRICHSEN, Western University
Title: The representational structure of complex movements in the human neocortex 

February 10 KATHERINE DUNCAN, University of Toronto
Title: The influence of ongoing cognitive and neural processing on learning and memory 
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

February 17JENNIFER RYAN, Rotman Research Institute
Title: Seeing what you remember: reconceptualizations of amnesia and oculomotor Hippocampal stakeout: surveilling during search and sleep

February 24 KARI HOFFMAN, York University
Title: Hippocampal stakeout surveilling during search and sleep

March 2 KAORI TAKEHARA, University of Toronto
Title: Formation and remodeling of temporal bridges in the medial prefrontal cortex
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

March 9 RICHARD ASLIN, University of Rochester
Title: Behavioral and neural mechanisms of statistical learning and implicit attention in infants and adults
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

March 16 AMY FINN, University of Toronto
Title: The sensitive period for language learning: the role of knowledge and memory
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

March 23 TARAZ LEE, University of Michigan
Title: The costs and benefits of top-down control: The curious case of choking under pressure
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

March 30 DATA BLITZ
Patricia Marshall (Anderson & Barense Labs): Content-specific age-realted effects of recollection and familiarity 
Claudia Damiano (Bernhardt-Walther Lab): Distinct roles of eye movements during memory encoding and retrieval 
Kyra McKelvey (Moscovitch Lab): Schemas and memory: Investigating how prior knowledge and novelty modulate memory for complex events 
Vincent Man (Cunningham Lab): Dissociable processes underlying context-relevant reward processing 
Nathaniel Brown (Inzlicht Lab): Dispositional mindfulness predicts neural responses to faces and affective pictures
VIDEO RECORDING OF DATA BLITZ

Fall 2016

September 21 DATA BLITZ
Chi-Hsun Chang (Lee and Nestor Labs):Memory and perception-based facial image reconstruction
Nick Diamond (Levine Lab)Altered hippocampal-prefrontal oscillatory dynamics supporting associativememory formation in developmental amnesia
Anuya Patil (Duncan Lab)Shifting the balance between pattern separation and pattern completion
Emma Tecwyn (D. Buchsbaum Lab)The influence of social context and causal plausibility on action-sequencecopying by preschoolers, toddlers and capuchins
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

September 28 DIANE BECK, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title:Learned Statistical Regularities and Natural Scenes
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

October 5 JOSEF PARVIZI, Stanford University
Title:Localization of Functions in the Human Brain: Insights from intracranial EEG and electrical brain stimulation
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

October 19 CHRIS MARTIN, Barense Lab, Psychology Department, University of Toronto
Title: Understanding what we see: The representational structure of perceptual and conceptual object information
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

October 26 MARLA SOKOLOWSKI, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Title: Unravelling Gene-Environment Interplay on Behaviour
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

November 2 MARGOT TAYLOR, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
Title: Functional and structural brain developments in autism

November 9 IRENE KAN, Villanova University
Title: Memory monitoring, new learning, and cognitive control
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

November 23 ASAF GILBOA, Rotman Research Institute and University of Toronto
Title: Mechanisms of rapid learning-induced neocortical plasticity independent of the hippocampus 
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

November 30 ROSIE COWELL, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: Recall without hippocampal engagement
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

December 7 ELIZABETH JOHNSON University of Toronto at Mississauga
Title: She says tah-may-to, he says tah-mah-to: How children learn language in the face of accent variation
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

Winter 2015

January 21 STEVE JOORDENS, Psychology, Scarborough Campus, University of Toronto
Title: Creating Habits of Mind: Can Cognitive Skills like Critical Thought Be Effectively Taught in Any Classroom?
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

January 28 RYAN WEBB, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 
Title: Rationalizing Context-Dependent Preferences: Neurobiological Constraints on Decision-Making
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

February 4 STEFAN KÖHLER Department of Psychology and Brain & Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario
Title: Mechanisms Involved in Assessing the Cumulative Life-Time Exposure to Concepts
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK 

February 11 W. DALE STEVENS, Department of Psychology, York University
Title: What Can Resting-State Functional Connectivity MRI Reveal About Higher-Level Cognition?
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

February 25 ROBIN GREEN, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Title: Characterization and Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in Chronic Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK   

March 4 STEPHANIE DENISON, Psychology, University of Waterloo
Title: The Origins of Inductive Inference in Infancy and Early Childhood
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK  

March 18 DATA BLITZ
Eric Taylor (Psychology, Pratt Lab): Object-based Attention Depends on Attentional Control Settings 
Zhongxu Liu (Psychology, Moskovitch Lab) "Easily Learned, Easily Remembered" Heuristic has its Neural Foundation
Chris Martin (Psychology, Barense Lab): Distributed Category-specific Memory Signals in Perirhinal Cortex 
Hans Melo (Psychology, Cunningham Lab): Genetic Influences on Exploratory Behavior 
Jackson Liang (Psychology, Barense Lab): Disambiguation of Overlapping Events in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe 
Caspian Sawczak (Psychology, Moscovitch and McAndrews Labs): The Role of Episodic Detail in Altruistic Intentions
VIDEO RECORDING OF DATA BLITZ

Fall 2015

September 30 DATA BLITZ
Yaelan Jung (Bernhardt-Walther Lab): Neural representations of scene categories in prefrontal cortex transcend sensory modalities
Kevin Himberger (Honey Lab): Computational modeling of visually learned temporal sequences in a cortical circuit
Emma Tecwyn (D. Buchsbaum Lab): Probabilistic inference in capuchin monkeys
Marta Wnuczko (Niemeier Lab): Why did it take so long before Brunelleschi's discovery?
Veronica Yuk (Taylor Lab): Timing and location of brain areas involved in cognitive theory of mind in children with autism spectrum disorder
Celia Fidalgo (Barense Lab): Source memory deficits and associated with aging and impaired cognitive status
Fahad Ahmad (B. Buchsbaum Lab): An eye-tracking study of pattern separation in recognition memory 
VIDEO RECORDING OF DATA BLITZ

October 7 SARAH SHOMSTEIN, George Washington University
Title: Structuring Visual Input: Evaluating Representations Influencing Attentional Selection
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

October 14 KANG LEE, University of Toronto
Title: Little Liars: Development of Verbal Deception in Children
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK 

October 21 ROBIN WEST, University of Florida
Title: Self-Regulation and Memory Change
Please note location change for this talk: 248 Lecture Theatre, Galbraith Building, 35 St. George Street
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK 

October 28 BRAD BUCHSBAUM, Rotman Research Institute
Title: Neural Reactivation during Mental Replay: Aging, Amnesia, and Individual Differences 
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

November 4 GILLIAN EINSTEIN, Psychology and Public Health, University of Toronto
Title: Estrogen and Cognition: The Greatest Story Never Told

November 11 ROSANNA OLSEN, Rotman Research Institute
Title: The Relationship Between Eye Movements and Subsequent Recognition: Evidence from Aging an Amnesia
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

November 18 NEIL COHEN, University of Illinois
Title: The hippocampus, relational memory, and navigating life

November 25 DOUG CRAWFORD, York University
Title: Cellular Basis of Visual Working Memory during Simple Gaze Behaviours

Winter 2014

January 22 LYNN HASHER (Psychology, St. George Campus, University of Toronto and Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest)
Title: Distraction Regulation and Cognitive Functioning

January 29 MORRIS MOSCOVITCH (Psychology, St. George Campus, University of Toronto and Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest)
Title: Episodic Memory: Associations and Transformations

February 5 TALYA SADEH and JASON OZUBKO (Post Doctoral Fellows, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest) 
Jason Ozubko Title: Hippocampal Contributions to the Road Less Traveled: Using Google Street View to Examine Remote Spatial Memories in Virtualized Real-World Environments 
Talya Sadeh Title: The Time of our Lives: Neural Mechanisms Supporting Temporal Organization of Episodic Memory

February 12 MELANIE COHN (Neuropsychologist, University Health Network and Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: Social Inference Deficits in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Lobectomy: Risk Factors and Neural Substrates

February 26 JAY VAN BAVEL (Psychology, New York University)
Title: Beyond Intuition and Reason: A Dynamic Approach to Moral Cognition

March 5 ED ONEIL (Psychology, University of Toronto at Scarborough) and MELANIE SEKERES (Post Doctoral Fellow, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest) 
Ed Oneil Title: The Role of Perirhinal Cortex in the Perception and Recognition of Faces
Melanie Sekeres Title: From Neurons to Networks: Brain Activation Predicted by the Transformation Theory of 
Memory Consolidation

March 12 DAVID SHORE (Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University)
Title: Crossed Hands and Closed Eyes

March 19 CHRISTOPHER HONEY (Psychology, St. George Campus, University of Toronto) 
Title: Mapping Brain Networks for Real World Cognition

March 26 DATA BLITZ 

Fall 2014

October 8 DATA BLITZ
Celia Fidalgo (Psychology, Barense & Lee Labs): Vulnerability to Object Interference in Early MCI 
Jason Rajsic (Psychology, Pratt Lab): Confirmation Bias in Visual Search 
Davood Gozli (Psychology, Pratt Lab): Attentional Consequences of Action Performance 
Iva Brunec (Psychology, Moscovitch & Barense Labs): Time Estimation in Spatial Navigation 
Hans Melo (Psychology, Anderson & Cunningham Labs): What Can Genes Tell Us About Cognition? Dopamine-Related Influences on Intertemporal Choice 
Sol Sun (Psychology, Ferber & Cant Labs): Attentional Scope Modulates Unconscious Processing 
Amanda Easson (Psychology, Doesburg & Taylor Labs): Patterns of Neural Connectivity During A Socially Relevant Inhibition Task in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

October 15 DIRK BERNHARDT-WALTHER, Psychology, St. George Campus, U. of T. 
Title: Which Features Do People Use to Categorize Natural Scenes?
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

October 22 AARON S. BENJAMIN, Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Title: The Processes and Process “Dissociations” of Recognition Memory: A new view on memory deficits associated with aging
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK 

October 29 NORMAN FARB, Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga 
Title: Being in the Body: Meditation, Interoceptive Awareness and Health
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

November 5 DONNA ROSE ADDIS, Psychology, The University of Auckland
Title: Constructive Memory: False Pasts and Fictional Futures
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK 

November 12 BEN HUTCHINSON, Psychology, Princeton University
Title: The Role of Attention in Creating and Retrieving Memories
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

November 26 DAPHNA BUCHSBAUM, Psychology, St. George Campus, U. of T.
Title: How Do You Know That? Learning from Social Informants
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

December 3 JANICE CHEN, Psychology, Princeton University
Title: Reinstatement of Neural Patterns During Narrative Recall
VIDEO RECORDING OF TALK

Winter 2013 

January 30  
NICOLE ANDERSON (Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Toronto and Rotman Research Institute)
Title: Current Research in the "other" Anderson lab
ANDREE-ANN CYR (Supervisor: Nicole Anderson, Psychology, St. George Campus and Rotman Research Institute) 
Title: Learning from one's mistakes: Effects of age and error processing 
EMMA GUILD (Supervisor: Nicole Anderson, Psychology, St. George Campus and Rotman Research Institute) 
Title: Priming and recognition are not independent: Encoding modulates the interplay between behavioural priming and recognition processes 

February 6
RUSSELL SCHACHAR (Hospital for Sick Children; Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Research and Fellowship Training in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Toronto ) 
Title: The Role of Cognitive Neuroscience in Genetic Discovery in Neuropsychiatric Disorders 

February 13
KRISTOFFER ROMERO (Psychology, St. George Campus and Rotman Research Institute) 
Title: The Work Horse of the Future: The Role of the Hippocampus in Constructing Future Events

February 27
SIGNY SHELDON (Rotman Research Institute) 
Title: Why do we remember? The functions and processes of autobiographical memory 

March 6
ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE CONFERENCE 
Topic: Brain Plasticity and Neurorehabilitation 
For information, see http://research.baycrest.org/conference 

March 13
SANDRA TREHUB (Psychology, Mississauga Campus, U. of T.) 
Title: Musical Beginnings 

March 20
MIKE ROSS (Psychology, University of Waterloo) 
Title: Are Research Findings on Cognitive Aging Reflected in Everyday Performance? 

March 27
IGOR GROSSMAN (Psychology, University of Waterloo) 
Title: Learning from Solomon's Folly: Wisdom  and Perspective-Taking 

April 3 
FERGUS CRAIK (Senior Scientist, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre 
Title: Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind and Brain 

April 10
ELIZABETH PAGE-GOULD (Psychology, Scarborough Campus, U. of T.)
Title: Workshop on Bayesian Hypothesis Testing

Fall 2013

October 2
DATA BLITZ
> Jessica Arsenault, Title: Multivoxel pattern analysis of phonetic features during speech perception 
> April Au: Title: The role of estrogen on cognitive functioning
> Alina Guna, Title: Visual interference affects the formation of conjunctive representations 
> Kyra McKelvey, Title: Place cells and the compression of time; bridging the gap between rats and humans 
> Rachel Newsome: Title: Retroactive cues differentially benefit visual working memory in mild cognitive impairment patients
> Jessica Robin: Title: Who, What, Where? Effects of context on memory for imagined events

October 9
ALISON PRESTON (Psychology, University of Texas at Austin) 
Title: Medial Temporal Lobe and Prefrontal Contributions to the Formation of Memory Networks
Location: 4043 (Psychology Lounge), Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street   

October 16 
VICTORIA MCLELLAND and RYAN STEVENSON (Psychology, St. George Campus, U of T) 
Victoria McLelland Title: Memory for the Future: The Encoding and Phenomenology of Episodic Simulations
Ryan Stevenson Title: Perceptual Binding Across Sensory Modalities in Autism Spectrum Disorders

October 23 
JENNIFER STEEVES (Psychology, York University) 
Title: Living with One Eye: Plasticity in Visual and Auditory Systems 

October 30
JAY PRATT (Psychology, St. George Campus, U of T) 
Title: How Hand Position Influences Visual Processing

November 6
MARY PAT McANDREWS (Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network) 
Title: The Hippocampus and Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories: The left and right and anterior and posterior of it

November 13
KARL HEALEY (Psychology, University of Pennsylvania) 
Title: The Nature and Sources of lndividual and Age Differences in Episodic Memory

November 20
SHAYNA ROSENBAUM (Psychology, York University) 
Title: Hippocampal Contributions to Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Episodic and Semantic Memory

November 27
JONATHAN CANT (Psychology, Scarborough Campus, U. ofT.) 
Title: Exploring the Functional Representation in Object and Scene-Selective Regions of Human Visual Cortex

Winter 2012

January 11
SARA SHETTLEWORTH (Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto) 
Title: Modularity, Comparative Cognition, and Human Uniqueness

January 25
KELLY MURPHY (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre; Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: The influence of experimental research on behavioural intervention for mild cognitive impairment

February 1
JONATHAN FREEDMAN (Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: How Do We Manipulate This? How Do We Measure That?

February 8
NINA MAZAR (Marketing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto) 
Title: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Morality

February 15
DATA BLITZ: Psychology Graduate Students and Post-Docs Present Their Research  

February 29
DONALD STUSS (President & Scientific Director, Ontario Brain Institute; Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: The Real World of Science Outside the Lab: The Ontario Brain Institute Odyssey

March 7
EVE DE ROSA (Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: The Yin and Yang of Attention

March 14
CHERYL GRADY (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre; Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: The Importance of Being Variable: Understanding Variability in Brain Activity and why it Matters

March 21
SYLVAIN MORENO (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre; Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: Brain Plasticity from Perception to Cognition: The Role of Video Games in Altering Brain Function 

March 28
ANNUAL ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND KLAERU CONFERENCE 
http://research.baycrest.org/conference 
 

Fall 2012 

October 3
KRISTIE DUKEWICH (Psychology, St. George Campus, U. of T.) 
Title: A lamb in sheep's clothing: Attempts and failures to connect inhibition of return and habituation 

October 10
DATA BLITZ

-  Marta Wnuczko (Psychology, Kennedy & Niemeier Labs, U. of T.) 
“Mirror image arm used in visual and blindfolded pointing” 
-  Jessica Robin (Psychology, Moscovitch Lab, U. of T.) 
“Common and distinct neural networks for episodic and spatial memory” 
-  Rachel Newsome (Psychology, Barense Lab, U. of T.) 
“Minimizing interference improves recognition memory performance in amnesia” 
-  Susan Gillingham (Psychology, Alain Lab, U. of T.) 
“Auditory Search: The Deployment of Attention is a Complex Auditory Scene" 
-  Alex Daros (Psychology, Ruocco Lab, U. of T.) 
“Emotion perception in Borderline Personality Disorder” 
-  Tarek Amer (Psychology, Hasher & Grady Labs, U. of T.) 
"Cognitive Functioning in Older Professional Musicians"

October 24
JEFF ZACKS (Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis) 
Title: Event perception, cognitive control, and memory 

October 31
DAVOOD GHARA GOZLI (Psychology, St. George Campus, U. of T.) 
Title: What Visual Attention Can Reveal About Concept Representation 

November 7
MORGAN BARENSE (Psychology, St. George Campus, U. of T.) 
Title: Perceiving, remembering, and resolving interference: Joined by a common representational thread? 

November 14
WIL CUNNINGHAM (Psychology, St. George Campus, U. of T.) 
Title: Emotional States from Affective Dynamics 

November 21
SPIKE LEE (Rotman School of Management, U. of T.) 
Title: Psychological consequences of embodied and metaphorical thinking: Empirical properties and theoretical implications 

November 28
ANDY LEE (Psychology, Scarborough Campus, U. of T.) 
Title: Recognition memory, brain connectivity and cognitive training 

December 5
TAYLOR SCHMITZ (Psychology, St. George Campus, U. of T.) 
Title: Attentional filtering in young and older adulthood 

Winter 2011

January 12
ASAF GILBOA (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest)
Title: Can the neocortex rapidly learn Tenrecas? Evidence from lesion, neuroimaging and behavioral studies of “Fast Mapping" 

January 19
NIGEL GOPIE (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest)
Title: Memory’s role in our social interactions

January 26
TOMÁŚ PAUS (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest)
Title: Hormones and faces 

February 2
MARGARET McKINNON (St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton)
TItle: Effects of affective dysregulation on autobiographical memory and social cognition in patients with neuropsychiatric illness

February 9
BRIAN LEVINE (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest) 
Title: Cognition, reserve, and rehabilitation in patients with damage to distributed brain systems

February 16
JORDAN POPPENK (Princeton University)
Title: Ebbinghaus was right: the familiarity bonus in memory and its neural mechanisms

March 2
JESSICA GRAHN (MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK)
Title: The role of motor areas in musical rhythm and beat perception

March 9
MARY PAT McANDREWS (Neuropsychology Clinic, Toronto Western Hospital)
Title: Changes in autobiographical memory networks as a consequence of hippocampal dysfunction or excision

March 16
ELIZABETH HAMPSON (Psychology, University of Western Ontario)
Title: Estrogen and working memory

March 23
DATA BLITZ

March 30
ROTMAN CONFERENCE

April 6 
DATA BLITZ

June 16
CHARLES GROSS (Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University)
Title: Tales in the History of Neuroscience: Three Neuroscientists Who Were Before Their TIme
 

Fall 2011

September 28
DATA BLITZ

October 5
STEPHANIE GOODHEW (Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: On the fate of visual stimuli masked by object substitution 

October 12
DAVID MANDEL (Defence Research and Development Canada-Toronto) 
Title: Framing, Language, and Reason 

October 19
TIMOTHY WELSH (Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto) 
Title: The way two complete a task and learn from each other: Attention and action in social movement contexts 

October 26
JED MELTZER (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre) 
Title: Language and the three halves of the brain 

November 2
KEITH OATLEY (Human Development & Applied Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: Six reasons why the psychology of fiction is important for psychology generally 

November 9
ADAM ANDERSON (Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: The Positive Neuroscience Project (PNP)

November 16
KAREN CAMPBELL (Psychology, University of Toronto) 
Title: Age differences in attentional control: Implications for associative memory 

November 23
JASON OZUBKO (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre) 
Title: Is cued recall really superior to free recall? Item-specific cues improve the accuracy of guesses but provide no true memory benefit 

November 30
LIXIA YANG (Psychology, Ryerson University) 
Title: The self-reference effect in emotional memory: Spontaneous or effortful mnemonic benefits? 

December 7
CAROL GREENWOOD (Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto) 
Title: The fattening of America: Cognitive implications 

Winter 2010

Jan. 27
JENNIFER CAMPOS (iDAPT, Toronto Rehabilitation Inst. Toronto) (Adjunct Member, Centre for Vision Research, York Univ.) 
“Multisensory self-motion perception in real and virtual environments” 

Feb. 3
DAVID SHERRY (Psychology, University of Western Ontario) 
“Memory for past and future outcomes in food-storing birds” 

Feb. 10
RHODRI CUSACK (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences, Univ. Cambridge, U.K.) 
“Using dynamically adaptive imaging to characterise the representations underlying perception, imagery and short-term memory” 

Feb. 24
GREG WEST & JAY PRATT (U of T – St. George) 
“Evolutionary influences on the prioritization of visual stimuli” 

Mar. 03
STEVEN FRANCONERI (Northwestern University) 
“Visual spatial relationship representation as a sequence of attentional shifts” 

Mar. 10
MICHAEL INZLICHT (U of T - Scarborough) 
“Regulatory fatigue: Neurophysiological evidence that initial acts of control affect subsequent control and emotion” 

Mar. 17
LYNN NADEL (Psychology, University of Arizona) 
”Hippocampus and memory” 

Mar. 24
MONICA CASTELHANO (Psychology, Queen’s University) 

Mar. 31
SARA SHETTLEWORTH & ADAM ANDERSON (U of T – St. George ) 
“Darwinian themes in contemporary psychology” 

Apr. 07
JENNIFER RYAN (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest) 
”Memory binding in aging and amnesia: Deficits and avenues to remediation” 

Apr. 14
SPECIAL EVENT. “IN SEARCH OF MEMORY” 
“Documentary film (2009) about the life and work of Eric Kandel” 

Fall 2010

September 29
DATA BLITZ (with inaugural free pizza)

October 6
LEE RYAN (University of Arizona)
Title: Understanding age-related compensation: Varying task demands in source, associative memory, and semantic memory

October 13
NICHOLAS RULE (Psychology Department, St. George Campus, University of Toronto)
Title: The cognitive neuroscience of first impressions

October 20
JAMES BROCKMOLE (University of Notre Dame) 
Title: Attention, memory, and scene processing

October 27
NATHAN ROSE (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest) 
Title: A processing approach to the working memory/long-term memory distinction: Evidence from the levels-of-processing span task 

November 3
BRADLEY BUCHSBAUM (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest)
Title: A comparison of brain activation during perception and vivid remembering of  movies

November 10
MARTIN WOJTOWICZ (Department of Physiology, University of Toronto)
Title: Role of adult-born hippocampal neurons in proactive and retroactive interference. Evidence from animal experiments

November 17
CLAUDE ALAIN (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest)
Title: The auditory 'what' and 'where in humans: 10 years later

November 24
JOANNE ROVET (Pediatrics and Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: Prenatal contributions to atypical hipposcampal development: Studies of early thyroid hormone deprivation and fetal alcohol exposure in adolescents

December 1
YOAV KESSLER (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest)
Title: Working memory updating

Winter 2009

Jan. 21
JAY PRATT (Psychology, U of T – St. George) 
“Orienting and responding: Examining varieties of attention” 

Jan. 28
BRIAN LEVINE (Rotman Research Institute-Baycrest Centre) 
“Dissociating elements of autobiographical memory with neuropsychology and neuroimaging” 

Feb. 04
ROBIN GREEN (Clinical Neuropsychology, Toronto Rehab) 
“Recent findings from the traumatic brain injury recovery study at Toronto Rehab: Mechanisms of recovery and post-recovery decline” 

Mar. 04
ANDREEA DIACONESCU (Rotman Research Inst-Baycrest Centre) PART I 
YUNJO LEE (Rotman Research Inst-Baycrest Centre) PART II 
PART I “What” and “where” preparatory task sets in auditory and visual system: behavioural and neural correlates” 
PART II “Deficits in face and object processing in normal aging and developmental prosopagnosia: behavioural and fMRI studies” 

Mar. 11
KARI HOFFMAN (Psychology, York University) 
“Face processing in the monkey using behavioral, electrophysiological, and fMRI techniques”

Mar. 18
DOUGLAS GARRETT (Rotman Research Institute-Baycrest Centre) 
”The importance of brain variability ” 

Mar. 25
MARY PETERSON (Psychology, University of Arizona) 
”Inhibitory competition and context effects in Figure-Ground Perception” 

Apr. 01
NASEEM AL-AIDROOS (U of T- St. George) PART 1 
STEPHEN EMRICH (U of T – St. George) PART 11 
”Interactions between working memory and visual attention” 

Apr. 08
TOM SCHWEIZER (Neurosurgery, St. Michael’s Hospital) 
”Cognitive contributions from the brain’s basement