A workshop series at the University of Chicago
Our next Cognition Workshop of fall quarter will take place on Thursday (11/2/2017), from 3:30 – 5:00 pm in Harper 140. Refreshments and snacks will be served.
Our speaker will be James Dungan, a post-doctoral scholar at the Chicago Booth Center for Decision Making, presenting:
When mental states matter for moral judgment.
To learn more, you can find a list of James’s published work on Google Scholar.
Our second Cognition Workshop of fall quarter will take place on Thursday (10/19/2017), from 3:30 – 5:00 pm in Harper 140. Refreshments and snacks will be served.
Our speaker will be Karen Smith, a graduate student in Psychology, presenting:
Understanding individual differences in responses to early life stress.
Abstract: Early life stress has been associated with a host of emotional and behavioral difficulties for children later in life. However, there is a wide range of variation in these outcomes. Understanding what contributes to these individual differences will aid in the development of more effective targeted interventions and tools for children exposed to early stress. The current work examines psychological and neurophysiological responses to early life stress and the factors that influence individual differences in these responses, specifically focusing on the role of stability within the home environment and autonomic cardiac functioning in responses to early life stress, with the goal of identifying protective factors for children in high risk environments to better understand which children/families might be most susceptible to specific types of intervention.
You can read an overview of Karen’s work here and find her published work on Google Scholar.
Our inaugural Cognition Workshop will take place this Thursday (10/12/2017), from 3:30 – 5:00 pm in Harper 140. Refreshments and snacks will be served.
Our first speaker will be Manoj Doss, a graduate student in Psychology, presenting:
Psychoactive Drugs and Episodic Memory Distortion.
Abstract: The effects of recreational drugs on learning and memory have been well-studied in animal models of reward-learning and conditioning. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding how these drugs affect episodic memory, which may be particularly relevant for human drug-taking behavior. Distortion of episodic memory, especially emotional episodic memory, may underlie failures in realizing when drug use becomes abuse, but such distortions may also be important components to certain drugs’ therapeutic potential. For example, Δ9-tetrahydrocanbinol (THC), the main psychoactive constituent in marijuana, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetam
You can read an overview of Manoj’s work here and find his published work on Google Scholar or ResearchGate.
We are happy to announce upcoming speakers for the Cognition Workshop. All workshops will take place on Thursdays, 3:30-5:00 PM in Harper 140.
| Speaker | Date | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Manoj Doss | October 12 | PhD student, Gallo lab & de Wit lab |
| Karen Smith | October 19 | PhD student, Norman lab & Decety lab |
| James Dungan | November 2 | Postdoctoral scholar, Center for Decision Research |
| Janet Geipel | November 30 | Postdoctoral scholar, Keysar lab |
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a destination for
faculty and students interested in learning about or presenting
their cognition-related work. Join us as we explore the study of
cognition from the perspective of a variety of disciplines,
including neuroscience, behavioral economics, and social
psychology.
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