Colloquium Series Talks
These twice-monthly sessions explore a range of brain related topics with discussions led by leading researchers.
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227
Guest Speaker: Erin Meier [C-STAR]
Talk Title: TBA
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227
Guest Speaker: Brent Strickland
Talk Title: TBA
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227
Guest Speaker: Meisam Arjmandi
Talk Title: Towards a personalized approach to improve speech and language outcomes
in cochlear implant listeners
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227
Guest Speaker: Caitlin Hudac
Talk Title: Brain ‘coupling’: EEG dynamics between loving partners
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227
Guest Speaker: Yuan Wang
Talk Title: Modeling the Shape of Brain Signals and Networks with Topological Data
Analysis
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227
Guest Speaker: Amit Sheth
Talk Title: Knowledge-infused Natural Language Understanding for Addiction and Mental Health Research
[pdf]
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227
Guest Speaker: Stephen Wilson [C-STAR]
Talk Title: Neural Correlates of Recovery from Aphasia after Stroke [pdf]
A recording of the lecture available later, via our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8p0CuG4He9nqCR4nnzhZ7w/videos
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227
Welcome Meeting
Dr. Christian O'Reilly from USC, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial
Intelligence Institute (#AllSC), and the Autism and Neurodevelopment Disorders Center
(#USCAN).
3:30pm-4:45pm
Talk Title: EEG functional connectivity and its application to the study of Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Dr. Jennifer Vendemia from USC, Department of Psychology and Institute for Mind and
Brain
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Talk Title: Proprioception and the Impact of LBP: A Tale of Two Cortical Systems
Previous Years Events
Dr. Robert Mason from Carnegie Mellon University
3:30pm
Talk Title: The new cognitive educational neuroscience: a neurosemantic approach
to the science of learning
Rutvik Desai
3:30pm-4:45pm
Talk Title: TBA
Jessica Bradshaw
3:30pm-4:45pm
Talk Title: Mapping Infant Experience: Physiology, Attention, and Movement as Predictors
of Social Engagement
Watch Jessica Bradshaw's talk here.
The passcode is: %%k6rdaM
Amy Dawel, The Australian National University
3:30pm-4:45pm
Talk Title: Why faking it isn’t making it in facial expression research
Darrell Worthy, Texas A&M University
3:30pm-4:45pm
Talk Title: TBA
ZOOM 3:30pm-4:45pm
Dr. Cheryl Armstead
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
University of South Carolina
Connections Between Emotional Regulation, Chronic Discrimination, and Allostatic Load Biomarkers Among Midlife African American Women
Watch Dr. Armstead's Presentation. The passode is 9K&&Y*p0
Zoom 3:30pm – 4:45pm
Dr. Jennifer Trueblood
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University – Nashville, TN
The Dynamics of Contextual Sensitivity in Multi-alternative Choice
Watch Dr. Trueblood's presentation. The passcode is: Ng+S.wm8
ZOOM 3:30pm-4:45pm
Chuanji Gao, PhD
Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow @
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Institute for Mind and Brain, University of South Carolina
ZOOM 3:30pm – 4:45pm
Dr. Valerie Shalin
Professor, Department of Psychology
Wright State University – Dayton, OH
Automating the Interpretation of Behavioral Measures in Open Task Environments
View the recording of the October 6th Colloqia
Passcode for Zoom video: fp$bz*y4