Clinical Psychology and Developmental Science will hold a colloquium featuring Erik Mick, ScD, Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr Mick's presentation will be titled Developmental Trajectories of Behavioral Dysregulation in a Large Population-Based Cohort.
The NSB Graduate Program will hold a colloquium titled Dopamine modulation of synaptic plasticity - Balance between co-released neurotransmitters. Jun Ding of the Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine will give the talk.
The colloquium is hosted by Genglin Li and takes place in 222 Morrill Science Center II from 4:00-5:00pm.
Amanda Rysling, graduate student in Linguistics at UMass Amherst, will present a talk titled Preferential early attribution in incremental segmental parsing.
Jennifer Tomlinson PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Colgate University, will present a talk entitled Helping each other grow: Individual and relationship benefits of self-expansion across the lifespan.
Dr. Tomlinson conducts research on the ways in which relationship partners can encourage one another to seek out opportunities for personal growth and how this benefits relationships and health.
Please join The Center for Research on Families as Suzanne Fenton PhD, a Group Leader in Reproductive Endocrinology in the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, presents a talk titled Early-Life Chemical Exposures and Female Puberty-Related Outcomes in Animal Models
Nadine Gaab PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, will present a talk titled The typical and atypical reading brain: Developmental evidence from infants, preschoolers and school-age children
Lelia Kawar PhD, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will present a talk titled Legal activism and deportation resistance: comparative and historical perspectives.
Rob Nosofsky PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University, will present a talk titled Teaching Natural-Science Categories with Guidance from a Psychological Model of Classification
The NSB Graduate Program will hold a colloquium featuring Anat Biegon PhD, Professor of Neurology at Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute. Dr Biegon's talk is titled Estrogen synthase (aromatase) in the human brain: Where, when and what for?
Dr Biegon works on the human brain response to traumatic, ischemic or inflammatory insults and sex differences and gonadal hormone modulation of brain function in health and disease. She has also developed radiopharmaceutical tools for non invasive imaging of neurotransmitter and hormone markers in the brain.
David Kajander and Patrick Sadil, graduate students at UMass Amherst will present a talk titled Trends in open science and the resources provided by data sharing
Abstract: New projects and databases have arisen that collect data in a way that is easy to access and use, particularly with fMRI data. We will discuss the advantages and pitfalls of researchers sharing analyses, data, and code through internet databases. Additionally, we will briefly present how to get involved in the process.
