Functional MRI Speaker Series
Each year our laboratory provides opportunities for our users and rsearchers to learn about advances in fields related to Functional MRI.
Date, Time, and Location
All Speaker Series are held during the academic year on the second or third Tuesday of each month, from 3:30 - 5:00, at the Colloquium Room, located at East Hall, 4th floor, room 4448.
Academic Year 2012-2013 Speaker Series
No RSVP is required. Additional detail about each talk and speaker will be provided as the date approaches. To be added to the Speaker Series email group and receive notifications about the speaker series talks, please contact the Administrator.
There are no additional speaker series scheduled for the remainder of the 2011-2012 Academic Year. The 2012-2013 Academic Year Speaker Series should be posted by the end of August 2012.
Academic Year 2011-2012 Speaker Series
Tuesday, November 15th, 3:30 - 5:00
Jerome Prado, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University
Specialization: Human reasoning and cognition; specifically, the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie these fundamental abilities in adults and children with and without learning disabilities using EEG and fMRI
Tuesday, January 17th, 3:30 – 5:00
Michael Milham, M.D., Ph.D., Leon Levy Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Associate Director of the Phyllis Green and Randolph Côwen Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience, New York University
Specialization: Neural basis of psychiatric illness in children and adolescents; specifically, examining how differences in the brain's functional and structural connectivity may underlie a variety of disorders, ranging from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to Autism to Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Tuesday, February 21st, 3:30 – 5:00
Richard Aslin, Ph.D., William R. Kenan Professor of Brian & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science; Director, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging, University of Rochester
Specialization: Statistical learning studies of brain function in adults and infants using fMRI and optical imaging, respectively; specifically, activations in a targeted brain area, such as MT/MST, to novel words that have been linked during a lexical learning task to referents which have the property of motion
Tuesday, March 20th, 3:30 – 5:00
Hilke Plassmann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Marketing and Neuroscience, INSEAD; Visiting Professor, Warton School, University of Pennsylvania
Specialization: Consumer Decision Making; Emotion Regulation & Self-Control; Consumer Perception of the Consumption Experience
Tuesday, April 10th, 3:30 – 5:00
John O'Doherty, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Specialization: Neural basis of reward and reward-related learning; neuroimaging, conditioning and associative learning; taste and olfaction; affective neuroscience