From jordwynn at uvic.ca Tue Jan 9 10:03:39 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 18:03:39 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Jan 12, Bennett King Nyberg (UVic) Message-ID: The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) returns this Friday at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring graduate student, Bennett King Nyberg (UVic) speaking on "A Two-Phase Procedure to Investigate the ?Photo Truthiness? Effect" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you Friday! A Two-Phase Procedure to Investigate the ?Photo Truthiness? Effect In previous studies, presenting related but non-probative photos alongside obscure claims increased participants? rated belief in the claims. This ?photo truthiness? effect is replicable, but it is very small. We used a two-phase procedure designed to make the source of the truthiness effect less salient by separating exposure to photos from truth judgments. We thought that might increase the size of the effect (i.e., via a sleeper effect). Participants were shown claims with and without related photos. Later, they judged the truth of the claims. Results were compared to the standard one-phase procedure. The results of the experiments, as well as a future experiment, will be discussed. Jordana Wynn, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Psychology University of Victoria Pronouns: She/ Her I acknowledge and respect the l?k?????n peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W?S?NE? peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordwynn at uvic.ca Fri Jan 12 10:11:35 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:11:35 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] REMINDER: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: TODAY @3PM, Bennett King Nyberg (UVic) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7fe98bcbe46b48e3a4d8a9eade0d198c@uvic.ca> The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) returns TODAY at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring graduate student, Bennett King Nyberg (UVic) speaking on "A Two-Phase Procedure to Investigate the ?Photo Truthiness? Effect" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you this afternoon! A Two-Phase Procedure to Investigate the ?Photo Truthiness? Effect In previous studies, presenting related but non-probative photos alongside obscure claims increased participants? rated belief in the claims. This ?photo truthiness? effect is replicable, but it is very small. We used a two-phase procedure designed to make the source of the truthiness effect less salient by separating exposure to photos from truth judgments. We thought that might increase the size of the effect (i.e., via a sleeper effect). Participants were shown claims with and without related photos. Later, they judged the truth of the claims. Results were compared to the standard one-phase procedure. The results of the experiments, as well as a future experiment, will be discussed. Jordana Wynn, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Psychology University of Victoria Pronouns: She/ Her I acknowledge and respect the l?k?????n peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W?S?NE? peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Jordana Wynn Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 10:03:39 AM To: psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Jan 12, Bennett King Nyberg (UVic) The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) returns this Friday at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring graduate student, Bennett King Nyberg (UVic) speaking on "A Two-Phase Procedure to Investigate the ?Photo Truthiness? Effect" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you Friday! A Two-Phase Procedure to Investigate the ?Photo Truthiness? Effect In previous studies, presenting related but non-probative photos alongside obscure claims increased participants? rated belief in the claims. This ?photo truthiness? effect is replicable, but it is very small. We used a two-phase procedure designed to make the source of the truthiness effect less salient by separating exposure to photos from truth judgments. We thought that might increase the size of the effect (i.e., via a sleeper effect). Participants were shown claims with and without related photos. Later, they judged the truth of the claims. Results were compared to the standard one-phase procedure. The results of the experiments, as well as a future experiment, will be discussed. Jordana Wynn, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Psychology University of Victoria Pronouns: She/ Her I acknowledge and respect the l?k?????n peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W?S?NE? peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordwynn at uvic.ca Mon Jan 15 10:33:00 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:33:00 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Jan 19, Ulrich Mueller (UVic) Message-ID: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca> The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Ulrich Mueller (UVic) speaking on "" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you Friday! Development of Executive Function in Preschool Children My presentation will provide a broad overview of some central issue in the development of executive function address during early childhood. Executive function undergoes considerable change during early childhood, with particularly rapid changes between 3 and 5 years of age First, I will illustrate some of these changes for a few widely used executive function tasks. Second, I will present experimental approaches that attempt to clarify the source of children's difficulties. Third, I will address the ecological validity of performance-based measures of executive function, and present data on the relation between performance-based measures of executive function and informant-report measures. Fourth, I will discuss the contribution of parenting to interindividual differences in executive function, drawing on longitudinal studies we conducted in my lab. Finally, I will discuss recent criticisms of the widely used structural (factor-analytic) approach to executive function and suggest that more process-oriented approaches are necessary to gain an adequate understanding of executive function development. Jordana Wynn, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Psychology University of Victoria Pronouns: She/ Her I acknowledge and respect the l?k?????n peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W?S?NE? peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordwynn at uvic.ca Fri Jan 19 09:00:52 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:00:52 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] ReMINDER: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: TODAY @3pm, Ulrich Mueller (UVic) Message-ID: <20C65265-172E-432A-9F8D-84461761BBBE@uvic.ca> The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place TODAY at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Ulrich Mueller (UVic) speaking on "Development of Executive Function in Preschool Children" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you this afternoon! Development of Executive Function in Preschool Children My presentation will provide a broad overview of some central issue in the development of executive function address during early childhood. Executive function undergoes considerable change during early childhood, with particularly rapid changes between 3 and 5 years of age First, I will illustrate some of these changes for a few widely used executive function tasks. Second, I will present experimental approaches that attempt to clarify the source of children's difficulties. Third, I will address the ecological validity of performance-based measures of executive function, and present data on the relation between performance-based measures of executive function and informant-report measures. Fourth, I will discuss the contribution of parenting to interindividual differences in executive function, drawing on longitudinal studies we conducted in my lab. Finally, I will discuss recent criticisms of the widely used structural (factor-analytic) approach to executive function and suggest that more process-oriented approaches are necessary to gain an adequate understanding of executive function development. From: Jordana Wynn Date: Monday, January 15, 2024 at 10:33?AM To: "psychat at lists.uvic.ca" , "cabssem at lists.uvic.ca" Subject: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Jan 19, Ulrich Mueller (UVic) The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Ulrich Mueller (UVic) speaking on "" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you Friday! Development of Executive Function in Preschool Children My presentation will provide a broad overview of some central issue in the development of executive function address during early childhood. Executive function undergoes considerable change during early childhood, with particularly rapid changes between 3 and 5 years of age First, I will illustrate some of these changes for a few widely used executive function tasks. Second, I will present experimental approaches that attempt to clarify the source of children's difficulties. Third, I will address the ecological validity of performance-based measures of executive function, and present data on the relation between performance-based measures of executive function and informant-report measures. Fourth, I will discuss the contribution of parenting to interindividual differences in executive function, drawing on longitudinal studies we conducted in my lab. Finally, I will discuss recent criticisms of the widely used structural (factor-analytic) approach to executive function and suggest that more process-oriented approaches are necessary to gain an adequate understanding of executive function development. Jordana Wynn, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Psychology University of Victoria Pronouns: She/ Her I acknowledge and respect the l?k?????n peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W?S?NE? peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordwynn at uvic.ca Mon Jan 22 10:05:26 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:05:26 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Jan 16, Sean Kiley (UVic) Message-ID: The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Sean Kiley (UVic) speaking on "The Effects of Music on Brain Connectivity" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you Friday! The Effects of Music on Brain Connectivity: Identifying Elements of Sound that Influence Working Memory and Present Time Consciousness Working memory capacity (WMC) is closely related to the experience of present time consciousness (PTC). Many factors have been demonstrated to affect the storage size of WMC and alter the experienced duration of PTC. The factors examined in this series of experiments are directly related or may be influenced by sound. These include: Biology (breath rate, heart rate), Entrainment, Coherence, Emotional Arousal, Proceduralization, Perceived Motion, Perceived Complexity, Number of Stimuli, and Interval Between Stimuli. Through specially designed sonic stimuli, this research strives to identify the specific characteristics of those elements of sound such as rhythm, tuning, and texture that have the capacity to increase both WMC and PTC. These experiments will be conducted via survey and combined EEG and fNIRS analysis of participants. EEG analysis will focus on brainwave entrainment and levels of coherence, while fNIRS data will be collected for activation in the dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain most closely associated with WMC. In this presentation I will outline the experimental designs as they relate to the factors shown to influence WMC and PTC. The link between WMC and PTC will also be explored in detail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordwynn at uvic.ca Fri Jan 26 10:48:16 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:48:16 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] RMINDER: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: TODAY @3pm, Sean Kiley (UVic) Message-ID: <2F136092-3CDA-4FFA-8B58-28AFD6561154@uvic.ca> The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place TODAY at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Sean Kiley (UVic) speaking on "The Effects of Music on Brain Connectivity" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you this afternoon! The Effects of Music on Brain Connectivity: Identifying Elements of Sound that Influence Working Memory and Present Time Consciousness Working memory capacity (WMC) is closely related to the experience of present time consciousness (PTC). Many factors have been demonstrated to affect the storage size of WMC and alter the experienced duration of PTC. The factors examined in this series of experiments are directly related or may be influenced by sound. These include: Biology (breath rate, heart rate), Entrainment, Coherence, Emotional Arousal, Proceduralization, Perceived Motion, Perceived Complexity, Number of Stimuli, and Interval Between Stimuli. Through specially designed sonic stimuli, this research strives to identify the specific characteristics of those elements of sound such as rhythm, tuning, and texture that have the capacity to increase both WMC and PTC. These experiments will be conducted via survey and combined EEG and fNIRS analysis of participants. EEG analysis will focus on brainwave entrainment and levels of coherence, while fNIRS data will be collected for activation in the dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain most closely associated with WMC. In this presentation I will outline the experimental designs as they relate to the factors shown to influence WMC and PTC. The link between WMC and PTC will also be explored in detail. From: Jordana Wynn Date: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:05?AM To: "cabssem at lists.uvic.ca" , "psychat at lists.uvic.ca" Subject: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Jan 16, Sean Kiley (UVic) The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Sean Kiley (UVic) speaking on "The Effects of Music on Brain Connectivity" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you Friday! The Effects of Music on Brain Connectivity: Identifying Elements of Sound that Influence Working Memory and Present Time Consciousness Working memory capacity (WMC) is closely related to the experience of present time consciousness (PTC). Many factors have been demonstrated to affect the storage size of WMC and alter the experienced duration of PTC. The factors examined in this series of experiments are directly related or may be influenced by sound. These include: Biology (breath rate, heart rate), Entrainment, Coherence, Emotional Arousal, Proceduralization, Perceived Motion, Perceived Complexity, Number of Stimuli, and Interval Between Stimuli. Through specially designed sonic stimuli, this research strives to identify the specific characteristics of those elements of sound such as rhythm, tuning, and texture that have the capacity to increase both WMC and PTC. These experiments will be conducted via survey and combined EEG and fNIRS analysis of participants. EEG analysis will focus on brainwave entrainment and levels of coherence, while fNIRS data will be collected for activation in the dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain most closely associated with WMC. In this presentation I will outline the experimental designs as they relate to the factors shown to influence WMC and PTC. The link between WMC and PTC will also be explored in detail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordwynn at uvic.ca Mon Jan 29 10:00:47 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:00:47 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Friday Feb 2, Darko Odic (UBC) Message-ID: The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday, Feb 2 at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Darko Odic (UBC) speaking on "The format of abstract perception: causes and consequences" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you there! The format of abstract perception: causes and consequences How does perception represent abstraction? How does the mind coalesce across domains? Why is learning sometimes easy and sometimes difficult? In this talk, I propose that the answer to all of these questions can be gleaned from considering the representational format of mid-level perception, and especially number perception. I show that number perception is experience-independent, bipartite, and probabilistic. These facts carry consequences for the rest of the mind. For example, I show that (1) number perception is not derived from experience with mid-level perceptual objects (contrary to recent machine learning models suggesting otherwise); (2) that number perception readily integrates with other domains where their formats match (e.g., number and area perception) but not where they mismatch (e.g., number and long-term memory); and (3) that the bipartite format of number perception allows for radical adjustments in what counts as a unit of enumeration, allowing even children to showcase perceptual division and multiplication before exposure to symbolic mathematics. The study of representational formats, therefore, can tell us a lot about how facets of the mind sometimes quickly come together, and when they do not, and can help answer long-standing questions in cognitive science about nativism, modularity, and learning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordwynn at uvic.ca Fri Feb 2 11:09:42 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 19:09:42 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] REMINDER: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: TODAY @3pm, Darko Odic (UBC) Message-ID: <323F37D7-8433-4A2C-9BAB-8ABF842378E6@uvic.ca> The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this afternoon at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Darko Odic (UBC) speaking on "The format of abstract perception: causes and consequences" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you there! The format of abstract perception: causes and consequences How does perception represent abstraction? How does the mind coalesce across domains? Why is learning sometimes easy and sometimes difficult? In this talk, I propose that the answer to all of these questions can be gleaned from considering the representational format of mid-level perception, and especially number perception. I show that number perception is experience-independent, bipartite, and probabilistic. These facts carry consequences for the rest of the mind. For example, I show that (1) number perception is not derived from experience with mid-level perceptual objects (contrary to recent machine learning models suggesting otherwise); (2) that number perception readily integrates with other domains where their formats match (e.g., number and area perception) but not where they mismatch (e.g., number and long-term memory); and (3) that the bipartite format of number perception allows for radical adjustments in what counts as a unit of enumeration, allowing even childre! n to showcase perceptual division and multiplication before exposure to symbolic mathematics. The study of representational formats, therefore, can tell us a lot about how facets of the mind sometimes quickly come together, and when they do not, and can help answer long-standing questions in cognitive science about nativism, modularity, and learning. ?On 2024-01-29, 10:00 AM, "Psychat on behalf of Jordana Wynn" on behalf of jordwynn at uvic.ca > wrote: The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday, Feb 2 at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Darko Odic (UBC) speaking on "The format of abstract perception: causes and consequences" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you there! The format of abstract perception: causes and consequences How does perception represent abstraction? How does the mind coalesce across domains? Why is learning sometimes easy and sometimes difficult? In this talk, I propose that the answer to all of these questions can be gleaned from considering the representational format of mid-level perception, and especially number perception. I show that number perception is experience-independent, bipartite, and probabilistic. These facts carry consequences for the rest of the mind. For example, I show that (1) number perception is not derived from experience with mid-level perceptual objects (contrary to recent machine learning models suggesting otherwise); (2) that number perception readily integrates with other domains where their formats match (e.g., number and area perception) but not where they mismatch (e.g., number and long-term memory); and (3) that the bipartite format of number perception allows for radical adjustments in what counts as a unit of enumeration, allowing even childre! n to showcase perceptual division and multiplication before exposure to symbolic mathematics. The study of representational formats, therefore, can tell us a lot about how facets of the mind sometimes quickly come together, and when they do not, and can help answer long-standing questions in cognitive science about nativism, modularity, and learning. _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat From jordwynn at uvic.ca Mon Feb 5 09:54:04 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 17:54:04 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Feb 9 @2:30pm, PSYC 492 Student Presentations Message-ID: The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday, Feb 9 at a special time, 2:30pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring UVic PSYC 492 student presentations. Note: There will be no zoom option this Friday Hope to see you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordwynn at uvic.ca Fri Feb 9 09:48:54 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 17:48:54 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] REMINDER: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: TODAY @2:30pm, PSYC 492 Student Presentations Message-ID: <7C5819E5-2B5E-43BE-8D53-D4C233BCDE53@uvic.ca> The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this afternoon at a special time, 2:30pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring UVic PSYC 492 student presentations.Hope to see you there! Note: There will be no zoom stream today ?On 2024-02-05, 9:54 AM, "Psychat on behalf of Jordana Wynn" on behalf of jordwynn at uvic.ca > wrote: The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday, Feb 9 at a special time, 2:30pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring UVic PSYC 492 student presentations. Note: There will be no zoom option this Friday Hope to see you there! _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat From jordwynn at uvic.ca Mon Feb 12 10:18:31 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:18:31 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Feb 16, Madeleine Ransom (UBC-O) Message-ID: <351BB1DC-A136-432D-AAB0-2CB46C3D18E1@uvic.ca> The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Madeleine Ransom (UBC-O) speaking on "Bias in Perceptual Learning" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you Friday! Bias in Perceptual Learning Perceptual learning is often understood as conferring some benefit to the learner, such as allowing for the extraction of more information from the environment. However, perceptual learning can be biased in several different ways, some of which do not appear to provide such a benefit. Here we outline a systematic framework for thinking about these biases and discuss how several cases fit into this framework. We argue these biases are compatible with an understanding in which perceptual learning is beneficial, but that its benefits are tied to the training environment or domain, and so if there are changes to either of these, (including the distribution of information, reward, or the organism?s goals) then benefits can turn into liabilities, though these are often temporary. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jordwynn at uvic.ca Fri Feb 16 09:23:01 2024 From: jordwynn at uvic.ca (Jordana Wynn) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:23:01 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] REMINDER: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: TODAY @3pm, Madeleine Ransom (UBC-O) Message-ID: The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this afternoon at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Madeleine Ransom (UBC-O) speaking on "Bias in Perceptual Learning" (abstract below). Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem Hope to see you this afternoon! Bias in Perceptual Learning Perceptual learning is often understood as conferring some benefit to the learner, such as allowing for the extraction of more information from the environment. However, perceptual learning can be biased in several different ways, some of which do not appear to provide such a benefit. Here we outline a systematic framework for thinking about these biases and discuss how several cases fit into this framework. We argue these biases are compatible with an understanding in which perceptual learning is beneficial, but that its benefits are tied to the training environment or domain, and so if there are changes to either of these, (including the distribution of information, reward, or the organism?s goals) then benefits can turn into liabilities, though these are often temporary. _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat From dbub at uvic.ca Mon Feb 26 09:33:59 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:33:59 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Jan 19, Ulrich Mueller (UVic) In-Reply-To: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca> References: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca> Message-ID: <70077f22639946f7820644634845200e@uvic.ca> This Friday (March 1st) the Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will feature a fascinating talk by Karen L. Campbell from Brock University at 3 pm. http://www.brockcnalab.com/ The title of the talk is: Hyper-binding: A major cause of age-related forgetting A long line of work suggests that associative memory, or the ability to form links between separate pieces of information, declines with age. For instance, compared to younger adults, older adults are often impaired at learning new face-name associations or recalling the source from which they heard something. This associative deficit is thought to stem from a decreased ability to form new associations, or bind information together, and to underlie age differences in episodic memory. However, my research suggests that 1) the binding process itself remains relatively intact with age, at least when tested implicitly, and 2) older adults may actually form too many associations (or ?hyper-bind?) due to a decreased ability to control attention. These non-target associations likely lead to increased interference and forgetting at retrieval. In this talk, I will present recent work in support of the hyper-binding hypothesis, including evidence that young adults with poor attentional control also hyper-bind, and show how excess binding may affect memory for more complex, everyday events. Please note that the talk will be held via Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 Another reminder will be sent on Thursday. ________________________________ Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Thu Feb 29 09:30:55 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:30:55 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] REMINDER: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: TODAY @2:30pm, PSYC 492 Student Presentations In-Reply-To: <7C5819E5-2B5E-43BE-8D53-D4C233BCDE53@uvic.ca> References: <7C5819E5-2B5E-43BE-8D53-D4C233BCDE53@uvic.ca> Message-ID: <0a7b822fbb734ae4ab6affd7c85812ee@uvic.ca> A reminder that this Friday (March 1st) the Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will feature a fascinating talk by Karen L. Campbell from Brock University at 3 pm. http://www.brockcnalab.com/ The title of the talk is: Hyper-binding: A major cause of age-related forgetting A long line of work suggests that associative memory, or the ability to form links between separate pieces of information, declines with age. For instance, compared to younger adults, older adults are often impaired at learning new face-name associations or recalling the source from which they heard something. This associative deficit is thought to stem from a decreased ability to form new associations, or bind information together, and to underlie age differences in episodic memory. However, my research suggests that 1) the binding process itself remains relatively intact with age, at least when tested implicitly, and 2) older adults may actually form too many associations (or ?hyper-bind?) due to a decreased ability to control attention. These non-target associations likely lead to increased interference and forgetting at retrieval. In this talk, I will present recent work in support of the hyper-binding hypothesis, including evidence that young adults with poor attentional control also hyper-bind, and show how excess binding may affect memory for more complex, everyday events. 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Campbell from Brock University at 3 pm. http://www.brockcnalab.com/ The title of the talk is: Hyper-binding: A major cause of age-related forgetting A long line of work suggests that associative memory, or the ability to form links between separate pieces of information, declines with age. For instance, compared to younger adults, older adults are often impaired at learning new face-name associations or recalling the source from which they heard something. This associative deficit is thought to stem from a decreased ability to form new associations, or bind information together, and to underlie age differences in episodic memory. However, my research suggests that 1) the binding process itself remains relatively intact with age, at least when tested implicitly, and 2) older adults may actually form too many associations (or ?hyper-bind?) due to a decreased ability to control attention. These non-target associations likely lead to increased interference and forgetting at retrieval. In this talk, I will present recent work in support of the hyper-binding hypothesis, including evidence that young adults with poor attentional control also hyper-bind, and show how excess binding may affect memory for more complex, everyday events. Please note that the talk will be held via Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: February 26, 2024 9:33 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Jan 19, Ulrich Mueller (UVic) This Friday (March 1st) the Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will feature a fascinating talk by Karen L. Campbell from Brock University at 3 pm. http://www.brockcnalab.com/ The title of the talk is: Hyper-binding: A major cause of age-related forgetting A long line of work suggests that associative memory, or the ability to form links between separate pieces of information, declines with age. For instance, compared to younger adults, older adults are often impaired at learning new face-name associations or recalling the source from which they heard something. This associative deficit is thought to stem from a decreased ability to form new associations, or bind information together, and to underlie age differences in episodic memory. However, my research suggests that 1) the binding process itself remains relatively intact with age, at least when tested implicitly, and 2) older adults may actually form too many associations (or ?hyper-bind?) due to a decreased ability to control attention. These non-target associations likely lead to increased interference and forgetting at retrieval. In this talk, I will present recent work in support of the hyper-binding hypothesis, including evidence that young adults with poor attentional control also hyper-bind, and show how excess binding may affect memory for more complex, everyday events. Please note that the talk will be held via Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 Another reminder will be sent on Thursday. ________________________________ Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. 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URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Thu Mar 7 15:03:20 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 23:03:20 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March In-Reply-To: <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca> References: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca>, <70077f22639946f7820644634845200e@uvic.ca>, , <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca> Message-ID: <585b7e9cae0747098cc5599bfe772f29@uvic.ca> A reminder that tomorrow's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/ From Alan's website: Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye). ________________________________ From: Daniel Bub Sent: March 4, 2024 10:33:12 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/ From Alan's website: Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Mon Mar 11 10:34:56 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:34:56 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March In-Reply-To: <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca> References: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca>, <70077f22639946f7820644634845200e@uvic.ca>, , <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca> Message-ID: <53dffecf13d14069b83b3e1fc4a84f8b@uvic.ca> This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 4, 2024 10:33:12 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/ From Alan's website: Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye). _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Thu Mar 14 09:39:05 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:39:05 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March In-Reply-To: <53dffecf13d14069b83b3e1fc4a84f8b@uvic.ca> References: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca>, <70077f22639946f7820644634845200e@uvic.ca>, , <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca>, <53dffecf13d14069b83b3e1fc4a84f8b@uvic.ca> Message-ID: A reminder that: This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 11, 2024 10:34:56 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 4, 2024 10:33:12 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/ From Alan's website: Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye). _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Mon Mar 18 09:32:15 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:32:15 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March In-Reply-To: References: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca>, <70077f22639946f7820644634845200e@uvic.ca>, , <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca>, <53dffecf13d14069b83b3e1fc4a84f8b@uvic.ca>, Message-ID: <3c89a13d59d14e7f9f4af8fc39bcb82a@uvic.ca> This Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 14, 2024 9:39:05 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March A reminder that: This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 11, 2024 10:34:56 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 4, 2024 10:33:12 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/ From Alan's website: Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye). _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Mon Mar 18 09:34:04 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:34:04 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] CABS seminar 22nd March Message-ID: This Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Thu Mar 21 09:57:59 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:57:59 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March In-Reply-To: <3c89a13d59d14e7f9f4af8fc39bcb82a@uvic.ca> References: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca>, <70077f22639946f7820644634845200e@uvic.ca>, , <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca>, <53dffecf13d14069b83b3e1fc4a84f8b@uvic.ca>, , <3c89a13d59d14e7f9f4af8fc39bcb82a@uvic.ca> Message-ID: A reminder: this Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 18, 2024 9:32:15 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 14, 2024 9:39:05 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March A reminder that: This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 11, 2024 10:34:56 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 4, 2024 10:33:12 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/ From Alan's website: Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye). _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Tue Mar 26 10:45:15 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:45:15 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March In-Reply-To: References: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca>, <70077f22639946f7820644634845200e@uvic.ca>, , <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca>, <53dffecf13d14069b83b3e1fc4a84f8b@uvic.ca>, , <3c89a13d59d14e7f9f4af8fc39bcb82a@uvic.ca>, Message-ID: Friday 29th is Good Friday, and the university is closed, so there will be no seminar. On April 5th, I will be hosting our last seminar of great interest, featuring Todd Woodward. The reason this seminar is a suitable end to the series is that Todd was my first graduate student at UVic, and has gone on to a stellar career. The second reason is the nature of the talk, dealing with fundamental aspects of the signal in fMRI research. Todd's professional trajectory can be found here: https://psychiatry.ubc.ca/todd-woodward/ I am providing advance notice of the talk because I think you definitely will want to arrange your schedule to attend: Title: Brain networks detectable by fMRI: A Focus on Tasks Abstract: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides information about the flow of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain. BOLD signal flow forms into reliable configurations, referred to as macro-scale BOLD brain networks. fMRI data can be collected either with or without the timing of defined events taking place during scanning being known and recorded. If such timing information is available, it can be used to constrain the BOLD signal variance exclusively to that which is predictable from this timing information. When timing information from cognitive tasks is used, this constrained variance can be submitted to a dimensional analysis which produces macro-scale BOLD brain networks which span many tasks, and their response to a wide range of task conditions can be studied to determine the cognitive functions which elicit the specific configurations. For example, in the relevant brain networks, the difference between long and short maintenance periods in working memory should be visible in the duration of the BOLD response, as should the duration of hallucination events. Examples of cognitive functions which elicit specific configurations are Access to Internally Stored Information and Re-evaluation of a Response. Symptoms of schizophrenia are related to the hypo- or hyper-activation of specific networks under specific task conditions. This application of fMRI could be used for pre-surgical planning, or as targets for neuromodulation, depending on the degree to which these BOLD signal configurations match neural configurations and are reliably retrievable on the level of a single-subject. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 21, 2024 9:57:59 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March A reminder: this Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 18, 2024 9:32:15 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 14, 2024 9:39:05 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March A reminder that: This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 11, 2024 10:34:56 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 4, 2024 10:33:12 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/ From Alan's website: Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye). _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Thu Mar 28 12:07:14 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:07:14 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March In-Reply-To: References: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca>, <70077f22639946f7820644634845200e@uvic.ca>, , <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca>, <53dffecf13d14069b83b3e1fc4a84f8b@uvic.ca>, , <3c89a13d59d14e7f9f4af8fc39bcb82a@uvic.ca>, , Message-ID: <0d44ee813e3b4a96ad4c61e2fd79f50f@uvic.ca> A reminder that tomorrow. Friday 29th is Good Friday, and the university is closed, so there will be no seminar. On April 5th, I will be hosting our last seminar of great interest, featuring Todd Woodward. The reason this seminar is a suitable end to the series is that Todd was my first graduate student at UVic, and has gone on to a stellar career. The second reason is the nature of the talk, dealing with fundamental aspects of the signal in fMRI research. Todd's professional trajectory can be found here: https://psychiatry.ubc.ca/todd-woodward/ I am providing advance notice of the talk because I think you definitely will want to arrange your schedule to attend: Title: Brain networks detectable by fMRI: A Focus on Tasks Abstract: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides information about the flow of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain. BOLD signal flow forms into reliable configurations, referred to as macro-scale BOLD brain networks. fMRI data can be collected either with or without the timing of defined events taking place during scanning being known and recorded. If such timing information is available, it can be used to constrain the BOLD signal variance exclusively to that which is predictable from this timing information. When timing information from cognitive tasks is used, this constrained variance can be submitted to a dimensional analysis which produces macro-scale BOLD brain networks which span many tasks, and their response to a wide range of task conditions can be studied to determine the cognitive functions which elicit the specific configurations. For example, in the relevant brain networks, the difference between long and short maintenance periods in working memory should be visible in the duration of the BOLD response, as should the duration of hallucination events. Examples of cognitive functions which elicit specific configurations are Access to Internally Stored Information and Re-evaluation of a Response. Symptoms of schizophrenia are related to the hypo- or hyper-activation of specific networks under specific task conditions. This application of fMRI could be used for pre-surgical planning, or as targets for neuromodulation, depending on the degree to which these BOLD signal configurations match neural configurations and are reliably retrievable on the level of a single-subject. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 26, 2024 10:45:15 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March Friday 29th is Good Friday, and the university is closed, so there will be no seminar. On April 5th, I will be hosting our last seminar of great interest, featuring Todd Woodward. The reason this seminar is a suitable end to the series is that Todd was my first graduate student at UVic, and has gone on to a stellar career. The second reason is the nature of the talk, dealing with fundamental aspects of the signal in fMRI research. Todd's professional trajectory can be found here: https://psychiatry.ubc.ca/todd-woodward/ I am providing advance notice of the talk because I think you definitely will want to arrange your schedule to attend: Title: Brain networks detectable by fMRI: A Focus on Tasks Abstract: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides information about the flow of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain. BOLD signal flow forms into reliable configurations, referred to as macro-scale BOLD brain networks. fMRI data can be collected either with or without the timing of defined events taking place during scanning being known and recorded. If such timing information is available, it can be used to constrain the BOLD signal variance exclusively to that which is predictable from this timing information. When timing information from cognitive tasks is used, this constrained variance can be submitted to a dimensional analysis which produces macro-scale BOLD brain networks which span many tasks, and their response to a wide range of task conditions can be studied to determine the cognitive functions which elicit the specific configurations. For example, in the relevant brain networks, the difference between long and short maintenance periods in working memory should be visible in the duration of the BOLD response, as should the duration of hallucination events. Examples of cognitive functions which elicit specific configurations are Access to Internally Stored Information and Re-evaluation of a Response. Symptoms of schizophrenia are related to the hypo- or hyper-activation of specific networks under specific task conditions. This application of fMRI could be used for pre-surgical planning, or as targets for neuromodulation, depending on the degree to which these BOLD signal configurations match neural configurations and are reliably retrievable on the level of a single-subject. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 21, 2024 9:57:59 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March A reminder: this Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 18, 2024 9:32:15 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 14, 2024 9:39:05 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March A reminder that: This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 11, 2024 10:34:56 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 4, 2024 10:33:12 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/ From Alan's website: Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye). _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbub at uvic.ca Tue Apr 2 15:46:58 2024 From: dbub at uvic.ca (Daniel Bub) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 22:46:58 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March In-Reply-To: <0d44ee813e3b4a96ad4c61e2fd79f50f@uvic.ca> References: <292e40e583a24dc6ad4aad9f8c314ca5@uvic.ca>, <70077f22639946f7820644634845200e@uvic.ca>, , <41043e6b6201415b95ecb8392a6b8d37@uvic.ca>, <53dffecf13d14069b83b3e1fc4a84f8b@uvic.ca>, , <3c89a13d59d14e7f9f4af8fc39bcb82a@uvic.ca>, , , <0d44ee813e3b4a96ad4c61e2fd79f50f@uvic.ca> Message-ID: <1ecb0970025c4a4a8ef1915493a0257c@uvic.ca> A reminder of our last cognitive seminar, a really interesting talk we are hosting on April 5th featuring Todd Woodward, a former graduate student of our department who is now a Professor of Psychiatry at UBC. Don't miss this event! Kind regards, Daniel Speaker: Todd Woodward https://psychiatry.ubc.ca/todd-woodward/ When: April 5th at 3 pm. Where: Psychology Department,Cornett A228 (Psychology Reading Room). Dr. Woodward is a Professor within the Department of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, a Research Scientist with the BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Institute (BCMHARI), and Centre Investigator with the Brain Research Centre. The objective of Dr. Woodward?s research program is to gain a functional and anatomical understanding of the functional brain networks that underlie the primary symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia. Three lines of research are being pursued. First, the cognitive correlates of the symptoms of psychosis are being explored by way of originally designed cognitive paradigms assessing specific aspects of memory and reasoning. Translation of these results back to people with schizophrenia in a group setting have led to a promising treatment program called metacognitive training (MCT). Second, functional neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG, MEG) is being utilized to identify the neural underpinnings of these cognitive functions, and how their dysfunction manifests as the symptoms of psychosis, and how they are affected by MCT. Finally, software is being developed for multivariate analysis of functional neuroimaging data (fMRI-CPCA) Title: Brain networks detectable by fMRI: A Focus on Tasks Abstract: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides information about the flow of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain. BOLD signal flow forms into reliable configurations, referred to as macro-scale BOLD brain networks. fMRI data can be collected either with or without the timing of defined events taking place during scanning being known and recorded. If such timing information is available, it can be used to constrain the BOLD signal variance exclusively to that which is predictable from this timing information. When timing information from cognitive tasks is used, this constrained variance can be submitted to a dimensional analysis which produces macro-scale BOLD brain networks which span many tasks, and their response to a wide range of task conditions can be studied to determine the cognitive functions which elicit the specific configurations. For example, in the relevant brain networks, the difference between long and short maintenance periods in working memory should be visible in the duration of the BOLD response, as should the duration of hallucination events. Examples of cognitive functions which elicit specific configurations are Access to Internally Stored Information and Re-evaluation of a Response. Symptoms of schizophrenia are related to the hypo- or hyper-activation of specific networks under specific task conditions. This application of fMRI could be used for pre-surgical planning, or as targets for neuromodulation, depending on the degree to which these BOLD signal configurations match neural configurations and are reliably retrievable on the level of a single-subject. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 28, 2024 12:07:14 PM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March A reminder that tomorrow. Friday 29th is Good Friday, and the university is closed, so there will be no seminar. On April 5th, I will be hosting our last seminar of great interest, featuring Todd Woodward. The reason this seminar is a suitable end to the series is that Todd was my first graduate student at UVic, and has gone on to a stellar career. The second reason is the nature of the talk, dealing with fundamental aspects of the signal in fMRI research. Todd's professional trajectory can be found here: https://psychiatry.ubc.ca/todd-woodward/ I am providing advance notice of the talk because I think you definitely will want to arrange your schedule to attend: Title: Brain networks detectable by fMRI: A Focus on Tasks Abstract: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides information about the flow of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain. BOLD signal flow forms into reliable configurations, referred to as macro-scale BOLD brain networks. fMRI data can be collected either with or without the timing of defined events taking place during scanning being known and recorded. If such timing information is available, it can be used to constrain the BOLD signal variance exclusively to that which is predictable from this timing information. When timing information from cognitive tasks is used, this constrained variance can be submitted to a dimensional analysis which produces macro-scale BOLD brain networks which span many tasks, and their response to a wide range of task conditions can be studied to determine the cognitive functions which elicit the specific configurations. For example, in the relevant brain networks, the difference between long and short maintenance periods in working memory should be visible in the duration of the BOLD response, as should the duration of hallucination events. Examples of cognitive functions which elicit specific configurations are Access to Internally Stored Information and Re-evaluation of a Response. Symptoms of schizophrenia are related to the hypo- or hyper-activation of specific networks under specific task conditions. This application of fMRI could be used for pre-surgical planning, or as targets for neuromodulation, depending on the degree to which these BOLD signal configurations match neural configurations and are reliably retrievable on the level of a single-subject. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 26, 2024 10:45:15 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March Friday 29th is Good Friday, and the university is closed, so there will be no seminar. On April 5th, I will be hosting our last seminar of great interest, featuring Todd Woodward. The reason this seminar is a suitable end to the series is that Todd was my first graduate student at UVic, and has gone on to a stellar career. The second reason is the nature of the talk, dealing with fundamental aspects of the signal in fMRI research. Todd's professional trajectory can be found here: https://psychiatry.ubc.ca/todd-woodward/ I am providing advance notice of the talk because I think you definitely will want to arrange your schedule to attend: Title: Brain networks detectable by fMRI: A Focus on Tasks Abstract: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides information about the flow of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain. BOLD signal flow forms into reliable configurations, referred to as macro-scale BOLD brain networks. fMRI data can be collected either with or without the timing of defined events taking place during scanning being known and recorded. If such timing information is available, it can be used to constrain the BOLD signal variance exclusively to that which is predictable from this timing information. When timing information from cognitive tasks is used, this constrained variance can be submitted to a dimensional analysis which produces macro-scale BOLD brain networks which span many tasks, and their response to a wide range of task conditions can be studied to determine the cognitive functions which elicit the specific configurations. For example, in the relevant brain networks, the difference between long and short maintenance periods in working memory should be visible in the duration of the BOLD response, as should the duration of hallucination events. Examples of cognitive functions which elicit specific configurations are Access to Internally Stored Information and Re-evaluation of a Response. Symptoms of schizophrenia are related to the hypo- or hyper-activation of specific networks under specific task conditions. This application of fMRI could be used for pre-surgical planning, or as targets for neuromodulation, depending on the degree to which these BOLD signal configurations match neural configurations and are reliably retrievable on the level of a single-subject. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 21, 2024 9:57:59 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March A reminder: this Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 18, 2024 9:32:15 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature: Tessa Charlesworth Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation ? from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups. Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom. Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09 ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 14, 2024 9:39:05 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March A reminder that: This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 11, 2024 10:34:56 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time). On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects Daniel Bub and Mike Masson Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word?s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts. ________________________________ From: Psychat on behalf of Daniel Bub Sent: March 4, 2024 10:33:12 AM To: Jordana Wynn; psychat at lists.uvic.ca; cabssem at lists.uvic.ca Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/ From Alan's website: Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab?s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science. The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm. Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye). _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat _______________________________________________ Psychat mailing list Psychat at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/psychat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And, I explain how providing the public with more information is not sufficient for improving people?s health decisions, particularly for reducing vaccine hesitancy. Overall, the talk will describe how language and reasoning impact health decision-making and will offer suggestions for how such processes could be leveraged to benefit public health. Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Hope to see you there! David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Response bias in old/new recognition memory is defined operationally as different rates of Misses (saying no to studied items) versus False Alarms (saying yes to non-studied items): More False Alarms than Misses defines liberal bias, whereas more Misses than False Alarms describes conservative bias. My students and I have discovered evidence of three interesting things about this: (a) There are stable individual differences in recognition response bias; (b) there may be cultural differences in recognition memory response bias; and (c) response bias can be affected by the nature of the stimulus materials. Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Hope to see you there! David -- David A. 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Historically, researchers have used techniques like multidimensional scaling (MDS), which produces an interpretable visualization of representational space using behavioural similarity judgements. Although a useful technique for creating aggregate representational spaces, MDS has a number of limitations. I will present PsiZ, a novel machine-learning approach that shows promise for obtaining rich individual-level representational spaces, and discuss several preliminary experiments applying this approach to individual differences in knowledge and expertise. I hope to demonstrate the utility of this method for researchers interested in individuals? mental representations, and invite discussion and suggestions for future research and applications. Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Our new CaBSSem website is now active (https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/cabssem/) [albeit, a bit bare bones right now] Hope to see you there! David -- David A. Medler, PhD Associate Teaching Professor Associate Chair Department of Psychology University of Victoria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmedler at uvic.ca Tue Oct 1 10:59:45 2024 From: dmedler at uvic.ca (David Medler) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:59:45 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Friday, October 4, 2024 @ 3:00 pm; Anna Lawrance (UVic) Message-ID: The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place on Friday, October 4 at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Anna Lawrance who will be presenting on another task using PsiZ Title: Visuoperceptual and Semantic Category Restructuring in Undergraduate Geology Students? Abstract: o the untrained eye, rocks offer little perceptual information to aid in accurate categorizations. Given this, geology serves as an ideal domain to observe the emergence of category knowledge. This study examined the formation and reorganization of perceived rock-type categories in students (N=48) enrolled in a post-secondary introductory-level geology course. Through this work, we addressed three key questions: 1) How do categories for rock knowledge develop? 2) How does category knowledge of rocks change following conceptual and perceptual learning? and 3) Is the trajectory of category learning indicative of academic performance? In this study, shifts in category structure were assessed using PsiZ, a machine learning package that generates a multi-dimensional category representation (i.e., psychological embedding) based on the participant?s similarity judgments. On each trial, participants were presented with a visual array of nine images and were asked to select the two most similar peripherally presented reference images to the central query image. Using the similarity ranking trial data, category structure was inferred at two time points: at the beginning of the course before formal instruction began and later, towards the end of the course, after participants received instruction in course content. Our analysis encompassed both perceptual and conceptual dimensions. Similarity judgments on images of rocks assessed the structure of participants? perceptual categories, while judgments on rock type labels (e.g., ?basalt? and ?granite?) assessed the structure of their conceptual categories. To investigate the relationship between perceived category structure and performance on formal academic assessments, participants? grades on lab tests assessing rock identification skills were obtained. In this talk, I will detail how category structures shifted pre- to post-instruction among the top 25% and bottom 25% of students, as determined by their lab test performance. Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Our new CaBSSem website is now active (https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/cabssem/) [albeit, a bit bare bones right now] Hope to see you there! David -- David A. Medler, PhD Associate Teaching Professor Associate Chair Department of Psychology University of Victoria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From psycadv at uvic.ca Wed Oct 9 14:31:01 2024 From: psycadv at uvic.ca (PSYC Undergrad Advisor) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 21:31:01 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Friday, October 11, 2024 @ 3:00 pm; David Medler (UVic) Message-ID: <129E8435-6978-4B0A-A7D8-CCA47A3E00C5@uvic.ca> The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place on Friday, October 11 at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring David Medler who will be digging deep into the past for this one. Title: Using Contrastive Hebbian Learning to Model Early Auditory Processing Abstract: We present a model of early auditory processing using the Symmetric Diffusion Network (SDN) architecture, a class of multi-layer, parallel distributed processing model based on the principles of continuous, stochastic, adaptive, and interactive processing. From a computational perspective, a SDN can be viewed as a continuous version of the Boltzmann machine; that is, time is intrinsic to the dynamics of the network. Furthermore, SDNs embody Bayesian principles in that they develop internal representations based on the statistics of the environment. One of the main advantages of SDNs is that they are able to learn probabilistic mappings (i.e., mapping from m?n, where m< From dmedler at uvic.ca Wed Oct 16 14:26:30 2024 From: dmedler at uvic.ca (David Medler) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:26:30 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Friday, October 18, 2024 @ 3:00 pm; Andy Yonelinas (UC Davis) Message-ID: <3FAAF7B7-7DE9-4495-991D-4D74F69241AC@uvic.ca> The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place on Friday, October 18 at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Andy Yonelinas (UC Davis) who is visiting UVic while on sabbatical. Authors: Andy Yonelinas, Colleen Parks & Chris Wahlheim Title: ?Towards' a Unified Theory of Similar Lures Abstract: Important advances have been made understanding the processes of recollection/familiarity, true/false memory, and pattern-separation/completion, by examining memory for lures that are similar - but not identical - to studied items. However, the research in these areas has remained largely isolated, and a coherent theoretical integration is lacking. We argue that these paradigms can be understood within a multi-process signal-detection framework in which memory for lures reflects the operation of three distinct processes: false-familiarity, recollection-rejection, and false-recollection. We review studies that have measured memory confidence, which allowed us to measure these underlying processes. The results suggest that these three functionally separable processes contribute to each of these paradigms, and that they can be measured by examining confidence ratings. Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click ?Sign in with SSO? so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. If you are interested in presenting at CaBSSem this year, please let me know! 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Statistically speaking, 5% of publications are Type 1 errors. But, statistically speaking, given Cohen?s recommendation of a minimum Power of 0.5, half of our experiments ? if they are true ? should fail. Around the same time as the replication crisis occurred, a new movement in science emerged dubbed ?Open Science? . But, it has been argued that it should be termed ?BrOpen Science? as it perpetuates long standing biases in science. Who is double checking pre-registered studies? This seminar is meant to challenge your beliefs and stimulate conversation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmedler at uvic.ca Fri Oct 25 11:08:42 2024 From: dmedler at uvic.ca (David Medler) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:08:42 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] Reminder: Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Friday, October 25, 2024 @ 3:00 pm; David Medler Message-ID: <5ABC508C-2D98-4376-97FF-39C47B91900C@uvic.ca> Just a reminder about today?s CaBSSem talk (and the Zoom information which I forgot on the previous post) The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place on Friday, October 25 at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228 BrOpen Science: Who is Watching the Watchers? A number of years ago, Psychology went through a ?replication crisis? but if truth be known, we should not be surprised for many reasons. Statistically speaking, 5% of publications are Type 1 errors. But, statistically speaking, given Cohen?s recommendation of a minimum Power of 0.5, half of our experiments ? if they are true ? should fail. Around the same time as the replication crisis occurred, a new movement in science emerged dubbed ?Open Science? . But, it has been argued that it should be termed ?BrOpen Science? as it perpetuates long standing biases in science. Who is double checking pre-registered studies? This seminar is meant to challenge your beliefs and stimulate conversation. Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click ?Sign in with SSO? so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. The schedule for upcoming talks can be found at https://oac.uvic.ca/cabssem Hope to see you there! David -- David A. Medler, PhD Associate Teaching Professor Associate Chair Department of Psychology University of Victoria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, recent research challenges this view, questioning the methodology, biases, and vested interests underpinning the existing evidence. This talk will explore the history and evolution of the J-shaped curve and critically evaluate the validity of its claims. Key topics include the limitations of using ?abstainers? as a control group, confounding health factors, and systematic errors in alcohol consumption measurement. I will also overview some of my recent work, including two systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and a content analysis, revealing how industry influences have influenced our understanding about the health risks of alcohol consumption. This talk ultimately aims to deliver a clear, evidence-based understanding of whether moderate drinking offers health benefits, while highlighting the public health and policy implications of this research. 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Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click ?Sign in with SSO? so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. The schedule for upcoming talks can be found at https://oac.uvic.ca/cabssem Hope to see you there! David -- David A. Medler, PhD Associate Teaching Professor Associate Chair Department of Psychology University of Victoria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmedler at uvic.ca Thu Nov 14 18:05:12 2024 From: dmedler at uvic.ca (David Medler) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:05:12 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] No CaBSSem this Week! (November 15) Message-ID: Hi Everyone Just a reminder that there will be no CaBSSem this week (November 15). We will resume our regular programming next week! David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmedler at uvic.ca Wed Nov 20 20:53:09 2024 From: dmedler at uvic.ca (David Medler) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 04:53:09 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] CaBSSem Seminar - November 22 - Subjects will learn your task however they damn well please -- Strategy use, non-stationarity, and task-impurity during Human (motor) learning Message-ID: This week, it is a blast from the past! We are privileged to hear from Corson Areshenkoff who complete his undergraduate degree at UVic, and then went on to complete his graduate degree at Queen?s University. Presenter: Corson Areshenkoff Title: Subjects will learn your task however they damn well please -- Strategy use, non-stationarity, and task-impurity during Human (motor) learning Abstract: Goal directed behaviour -- even in simple tasks -- involves the coordinated activity of multiple cognitive and neural systems, all leading to the motor output measured by the experimenter. We often hope to design tasks which isolate a particular component of these systems (a "pure" measure), but Humans are quite clever, and often succeed in finding ways to make a task easier by leveraging their capacity for sophisticated cognitive control. In this talk, we'll consider performance in an extremely simple task, designed to study Human sensorimotor learning, and which is classically believed to rely on adaptation within motor structures in the brain. However, there is substantial variability in the way that individual subjects appear to perform this task, and pinning down how subjects actually learn turns out to be quite difficult. In attempting to accomplish this feat, I'll touch on matters of executive functions, reinforcement learning, and the cognitive systems supporting the representation of the overarching structure of a task, all of which allow subjects to display highly strategic behaviour. Somewhat more polemically, I'll argue that many tasks which are often considered to measure specific processes actually show evidence of evolving, strategic processes. In this sense, all tasks are measures of executive functions. Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmedler at uvic.ca Wed Nov 20 21:28:55 2024 From: dmedler at uvic.ca (David Medler) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:28:55 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] CaBSSem Correction Message-ID: I must apologize, as I have had one of the memory conflation episodes that people in CaBS study (feel free to comment Steve!) 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Most of the session is about interactions as an author seeking to publish a scientific article in a peer-reviewer journal, but I will also provide information and advice about serving as peer reviewer for such journals. Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Hope to see you there! David -- David A. Medler, PhD Associate Teaching Professor Associate Chair Department of Psychology University of Victoria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmedler at uvic.ca Tue Dec 3 14:00:51 2024 From: dmedler at uvic.ca (David Medler) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 22:00:51 +0000 Subject: [CaBSSem] CaBSSem Seminar - December 6 - Grounded cognitions: A curriculum on the mind and brain for living in a neurodiverse society Message-ID: Hello All The final CaBSSem for the Fall semester will be this Friday, December 6. It will be a highly interactive session being led by Dr. Jim Tanaka Presenter: Jim Tanaka Title: Grounded cognitions: A curriculum on the mind and brain for living in a neurodiverse society Abstract: Imagine you are a young science teacher who is stepping into their first job at the local middle school. Two weeks before school starts, your principal gives you a surprise and daunting assignment ? you are asked to design and teach a new STEM course on human cognition for the Grade 6 and 7 students! If you were in the teacher?s shoes, how would you go about developing and launching this course? What topics and concepts would you cover? What innovative teaching methods and techniques would you introduce to spark the curiosity and imaginations of your students? This Friday?s Cognition and Brain Sciences (CABS) seminar will be a collective brainstorming session where we discuss and debate how we might design a course in cognitive neuroscience for school-age children. Ideally, the proposed course will cover the fundamental concepts and scientific principles that connect brain science and human cognition. The teachings should be inspired by cutting-edge discoveries, technologies and theories in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, computational and artificial sciences. To engage students, course material should be drawn from their everyday experiences and observations of cognitive and brain processes. The course will consider the variations and diversity of human cognition as reflected in culture, gender, clinical diagnoses, and neurological conditions. The goal of this new cognitive neuroscience course will be to teach students how to think about the human mind and brain while living in a post-information age of artificial intelligence. Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81764468633?pwd=L2qpMid4hLXCGQrv9QQdY1bpleAnrm.1 For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click ?Sign in with SSO? so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom. Hope to see you there! David -- David A. Medler, PhD Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Chair Department of Psychology University of Victoria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: