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. 

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