Colloquia

CCBS hosts a variety of colloquia throughout the academic year. 

There are no upcoming events at this time.

If you have a proposal for a speaker, please visit our funding page to learn how CCBS can assist. 


To view past speakers, select from the drop-down options below. 

October 16, 2024

  • Dr. Jan Theeuwes
  • Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  • “Top-down, bottom-up and history-driven selection"

 

October 18-19, 2024: Attentional Control (special mini-conference) 

Presentations from:

  • Brad Gibson, University of Notre Dame 
  • Geoff Woodman, Vanderbilt University
  • Steve Mitroff, George Washington University 
  • Nancy Carlisle, Lehigh University 
  • Joy Geng, University of California, Davis
  • Brad Wyble, Pennsylvania State University 
  • Sarah Shomstein, George Washington University 
  • Katherine Moore, Arcadia University
  • Brad Stilwell, Texas A&M University 
  • Julie Golomb, The Ohio State University
  • Nick Gaspelin, University of Missouri 
  • Jan Theeuwes, Vrije Universiteit 
  • Anthony Harris, University of Queensland 
  • Brian Anderson, Texas A&M University

April 28-29, 2023: Decisions, Cognition, and the Climate Crisis (special mini-conference) 

Presentations from:

  • Shahzeen Attari - Indiana U
  • Stephen Broomell - Purdue
  • Steven Franconeri - Northwestern
  • Marco Janssen - Arizona State
  • Ellen Peters - U Oregon
  • Nicole Sintov - Ohio State
  • Leaf Van Boven - CU Boulder
  • Katherine White - U British Columbia
  • Robyn Wilson - Ohio State
  • Jiaying Zhao - U British Columbia


November 3, 2023

  • Dr. Marvin Chun
  • Yale University 
  • “Personalized brain imaging to predict individual performance and dysfunction."

January 20, 2022

  • Dr. Mahzarin Banaji
  • Harvard University
  • “The mental representation of race in America: A new science compels a new reckoning"

 

March 10, 2022

  • Dr. Keith Payne
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • “The Bias of Crowds"

 

December 1, 2022

  • Dr. Courtney Bonam
  • University of California Santa Cruz
  • “Polluting Black Space"

November 11, 2021

  • Dr. Paige Lloyd
  • University of Denver
  • “Race-based sensitivity and bias effects in trust judgements"

March 23, 2018

  • Dr. Lisa Davidson
  • New York University
  • “The intersection of prosodic context, pitch, and gender in the identification of creaky voice.”

February 10, 2017

  • Dr. James Haxby
  • Dartmouth College
  • “A common model of representational spaces in human cortex.”

 

March 8, 2017

  • Dr. Letitia Naigles
  • University of Connecticut
  • “What Variability in Children’s Language Reveals about the Psychological and Neurological Processes of Language Acquisition: Evidence from Typical Children and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.”

 

November 12, 2017

  • Dr. Ruchika Prakash
  • Ohio State University
  • "Mindfulness for the Aging Brain"

January 25, 2016

  • Dr. Jeff Cohn
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • "Automated Face Analysis for Research and Clinical Use"

 

February 19, 2016

  • Dr. Sheng He
  • University of Minnesota
  • "Psychophysical TMS: delayed fovea noise disrupts discrimination of object details in the visual periphery"

 

March 22, 2016

  • Dr. David Gow
  • Harvard University
  • "Effective connectivity, phonology and speech perception: What Granger analysis can tell us about the sources of phonological structure" 

 

June 9, 2016

  • Dr. Alison Preston
  • University of Texas
  • “Hippocampal-prefrontal contributions to knowledge acquisition and representation” 

March 26, 2015

  • Dr. Mark Blumberg
  • University of Iowa
  • "Developing the Sensorimotor System in Our Sleep" 

 

April 25, 2015

  • Dr. Ping Li
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • “The Bilingual Brain:  Neuroplasticity as a Function of Second Language” 

January 13, 2014

  • Andrew Shtulman
  • Occidental College
  • "Conceptual and Epistemic Obstacles to Understanding Science"

 

January 30, 2014

  • Marlene Behrmann
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • "Distributed Neural Circuits, Not Circumscribed Centers, Mediate Both Face and Word Recognition" 

 

February 3, 2014

  • Anthony Chemero
  • University of Cincinnati
  • "The End of the Debate Over Extended Cognition" 

 

February 20, 2014

  • Chen Yu
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • "Statistical Word Learning: Behaviors, Mechanisms and Models" 

 

April 4, 2014

  • Joshua McDermott
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • "Understanding Audition Via Sound Analysis and Synthesis" 

 

September 17, 2014

  • Dr. Mark C Preul
  • Barrow Neurological Institute
  • "Meningiomas assessed with ex vivo NMR and in vivo 3D 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy: Determining biochemical markers of clinically aggressive behavior and providing a resection advantage"

 

October 2, 2014

  • Dr. Aude Oliva
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • "Visualizing Human Mental Representations in Time and Space"

 

October 10, 2014

  • Dr. Matt Goldrick
  • Northwestern University
  • "Gradient Symbolic Structure in Cognition" 

 

October 30, 2014

  • Dr. Nancy Kanwisher
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • "The Functional Organization of Human Auditory Cortex" 

 

November 7, 2014

  • The Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging at OSU
  • "OSU Technology Commercialization Office (TCO)" 

February 15, 2013

  • Dr. Robert E. Remez
  • Barnard College and Columbia University 
  • “I Would Know That Voice Anywhere!” 

 

March 22, 2013

  • Dr. Michael Lewicki
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • “Learning Abstract Representations of Structures in Natural Scenes” 

 

April 24, 2013

  • Dr. Edward Vul 
  • University of California, San Diego
  • “Intuitive Dynamics in Human Object Perception” 

 

June 27, 2013

  • Moritz Grosse-Wentrup 
  • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems 
  • “The Neural Basis of Brain-Computer Interface Control” 

 

October 11, 2013

  • Jack Gallant
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • “Detailed Mapping of Sensory and Cognitive Information Across the Human Brain” 

 

November 16, 2013

  • Alice O’Toole
  • University of Texas-Dallas
  • “Computational Models of Face Recognition: Where are we now? Where do we go next?” 

February 17, 2012

  • Mark Pitt & Antoine J. Shahin
  • OSU Psychology Department
    OSU Eye Ear Institute and Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
  • "Exploring Spoken Word Segmentation Using EEG"

 

March 2, 2012

  • Derick H. Lindquist
  • OSU Psychology Department
  • "A rodent model of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Impaired classical conditioning in adult animals"

 

March 2, 2012

  • Jiangye Yuan
  • OSU Computer Science and Engineering
  • "Remote Sensing Image Segmentation by Combining Spectral and Texture Features"

 

April 20, 2012

  • Zhong-Lin Lu
  • OSU Department of Psychology
  • "Quick Methods: Bayesian Adaptive Estimation of Psychological Functions"

 

May 11, 2012

  • Allison Bean
  • OSU Department of Speech and Hearing Science
  • "Comparison of Direct and Indirect Measures of Executive Function in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders."

 

June 8, 2012

  • Bernadette Leuner
  • OSU Department of Psychology
  • "Structural Plasticity and Cognitive Function: Resilience During Motherhood

January 21, 2011

  • Laura Wagner & Cynthia Clopper
  • OSU Department of Psychology and Department of Linguistics 
  • "Perception of Dialect Variation by Young Adults with High-Functioning Autism"

 

January 28, 2011

  • Stephen Petrill
  • OSU Human Development and Family Science
  • "Genetically sensitive approaches to the study of math and reading cognition"

 

February 4, 2011

  • Ellen Peters
  • OSU Department of Psychology
  • "Attention-based choice: A mere looking effect"

 

February 18, 2011

  • Ruchika Prakash
  • OSU Department of Psychology
  • "Cardiorespiratory fitness and cognitive and brain plasticity in older adults"

 

February 25, 2011

  • Antoine J. Shahin
  • OSU Eye and Ear Institute and Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
  • "Neural influence of prior knowledge on illusory filling-in of degraded speech"

 

March 4, 2011

  • Raghu Machiraju
  • OSU Computer Science and Engineering
  • "State-space models for Analyzing fMRI data"

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March 11, 2011

  • Per Sederberg
  • OSU Department of Psychology
  • "Modeling the role of context and prediction error in encoding variability"

 

October 7, 2011

  • Samuel Rivera
  • OSU Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Untitled 

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October 21, 2011

  • Randy Gallistel
  • Rutgers University, Center for Cognitive Science
  • "Memory and the Computational Brain"

 

October 28, 2011

  • Michael Arbib
  • University of Southern California, USC Brain Project
  • "From Mirror Neurons to Complex Imitation in the Evolution of Language and Tool Use"
     

November 04, 2011

  • Ya-ting Shih
  • OSU Education: Teaching & Learning
  • Untitled 
     

November 18, 2011

  • Antoine J Shahin
  • OSU Eye and Ear Institute and Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
  • Untitled 

October 8, 2010

  • S. Du
  • OSU Department of Electrical Engineering

 

October 15, 2010

  • Dr. Karen Harpster
  • OSU Occupational Therapy

 

October 22, 2010

  • D. Bernhardt-Walther
  • OSU Department of Psychology

 

October 29, 2010

  • Dr. David Huron
  • OSU School of Music

 

November 5, 2010

  • P. Reidy
  • OSU Department of Linguistics

 

November 12, 2010

  • G. Yim
  • OSU School of Music

 

December 3, 2010

  • D. Espinosa
  • OSU Department of Linguistics