Past Speakers and Recordings
BIRC Speaker Series + Speaker-Tag Series
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| Date and Time | Zoom Registration | Speaker | Title |
| TBA | TBA | Richard Davidson, PhD
University of Wisconsin |
Well-being is a skill: Science and action |
Past Speakers and Recordings
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Friday, May 20th
1:30-2:45 pm ET |
Augusto Buchweitz, PhD
UConn |
‘Leave them kids alone’: a brief history of building a brain imaging lab in Brazil and investigating children and adolescent early literacy and exposure to violence (flyer) |
| Friday, April 22nd
1:30-2:45 pm ET
|
Adrian Owen, PhD
University of Western Ontario |
Into The Gray Zone: Assessing Residual Cognitive Function in Disorders of Consciousness |
| Friday, February 18th
(Co-hosted by BIRC and IBACS) |
John Hale, PhDUniversity of Georgia | Grammar, Incrementality and fMRI Timecourse |
| Thursday, January 27th
Co-hosted SLAC Talk |
Tracy Tokuhama-Espinosa, PhD
Harvard |
Transdisciplinary, Translational, International Communication |
| Friday, January 21st
Speaker-Tag Series |
Roy Hamilton, MD
UPenn |
Stimulating Conversations: Employing Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Technologies to Characterize and Enhance Language Processing in Persons with Aphasia (flyer) |
| Friday, December 10th
Speaker-Tag Series |
Jason Yeatman, PhD
Stanford |
Neural Plasticity in Developmental Dyslexia (flyer) |
| Tuesday, November 26th
Speaker-Tag Series |
Swathi Kiran, PhD
BU |
Advances in predicting language recovery after stroke: Precision rehab |
| Tuesday, October 5th
Speaker-Tag Series |
Alex Martin, PhD
NIH/NIMH |
Object concept representation: The case of Food (flyer) |
| Tuesday, September 21st
Speaker-Tag Series |
MariLu Gorno Tempini, MD, PhD
UC San Francisco |
Language disorders across the life span (flyer) |
| Tuesday, June 8th
Speaker-Tag Series |
Terry Jernigan, PhD
UC San Diego |
Developmental Population Neuroscience and The ABCD Study (flyer) |
| Tuesday, May 18th
Speaker-Tag Series |
Russell Poldrack, PhD
Stanford University |
What’s wrong with neuroimaging, and how can we make it right? (flyer) |
| Tuesday, April 20th
Speaker-Tag Series |
Kalanit Grill-Spector, PhD
Stanford University |
Human visual cortex as a window into the developing brain (flyer) |
| Tuesday, March 9th
Speaker-Tag Series |
Ido Davidesco, PhD
UConn – Neag School of Educaiton |
Brain-to-Brain Synchrony in the Classroom |
| February 23rd 2021
Speaker-Tag Series |
UPenn |
Environmental influences on brain development and plasticity (flyer) |
| January 26th 2021
Speaker-Tag Series |
California Institute of Technology |
Space, Time and Fear: Survival Decisions along Defensive Circuits |
| December 15th 2020
Speaker-Tag Series |
University of Tübingen |
A reward-learning framework of autonomous knowledge acquisition: An integrated account of curiosity, interest, and intrinsic-extrinsic rewards |
| December 1st 2020
BIRC Speaker Series |
New York University |
Ways to think about the brain
(flyer) (please email elizabeth.collin@uconn.edu to request the recoding) |
| October 20th 2020
Speaker-Tag Series |
Max Planck UCL Centre |
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| October 6th 2020
BIRC Speaker Series |
University of Minnesota |
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| July 7th 2020
Speaker-Tag Series |
Roshan Cools, PhD Radbound University |
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| June 16th 2020
Speaker-Tag Series |
Columbia University |
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| June 2nd 2020
Speaker-Tag Series |
Danielle S. Bassett, PhD
University of Pennsylvania |
Perturbation and Control for Human Brain Network Dynamics |
| May 19th 2020
Speaker-Tag Series |
Danielle S. Bassett, PhD
University of Pennsylvania |
Science as Culture |
| May 5th 2020
Speaker-Tag Series |
Nathan Spreng, PhD
McGill University |
Explorations into the Default Mode Network of the Human Brain |
| April 14th 2020
Speaker-Tag Series |
Lucina Uddin, PhD
University of Miami |
Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors |
| April 1st 2020
BIRC Speaker Series |
Daniel Ansari, PhD
University of Western Ontario |
Number Symbols in Brain and Mind |
| March 3rd 2020
BIRC Speaker Series |
David Badre, PhD
Brown University |
Prefrontal Cortex and the Hierarchical Control of Behavior |
| February 4th 2020
BIRC Speaker Series |
Katarzyna Chawarska, PhD
Yale University |
Social and Affective Characteristics of Infants and Toddlers with ASD |
| December 3rd 2020
BIRC Speaker Series |
Kimberly Nobel, MD, PhD
Columbia University |
Socioeconomic Inequality and Children’s Brain Development |
| November 5th 2019
BIRC Speaker Series |
Stephanie Jones, PhD
Brown University |
Bridging MEG/EEG to Cell and Neural Level Dynamics with the Human Neocortical Neurosolver |
| October 15th 2019
BIRC Speaker Series |
Uri Hasson, PhD
Princeton University |
Face to Face, Brain to Brain: Exploring the Mechanisms of Dyadic Social Interaction |
| September 10th 2019
BIRC Speaker Series |
Tor Wager, PhD
Dartmouth College |
Neuroimaging of pain and emotion: Computation, representation, and regulation |
| May 1st 2019
BIRC Speaker Series |
Michele Diaz, PhD
Penn State University |
Evidence of age-related phonological impairments in language production |
| April 3rd 2019
BIRC Speaker Series |
Theresa Desrochers, PhD
Brown University |
Sequential control in the frontal cortex: studies in animals and humans |
| February 20th 2019
BIRC Speaker Series |
James Haxby, PhD
Dartmouth College |
Hyperalignment: Modeling the shared deep structure of information encoded in fine scale cortical topographies |
| January 30th 2019
BIRC Speaker Series |
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, PhD
Northeastern University |
Clinical Translation of Resting State Networks |
| December 5th 2018
BIRC Speaker Series |
Vincent Gracco, PhD
McGill University |
Functional Networks and Speech Production |
| November 7th 2018
BIRC Speaker Series |
David Steffens, MD
UConn Health |
Linking Late-Life Depression, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia |
| October 3rd 2018
BIRC Speaker Series |
Emily Meyers, James Magnuson, Fumiko Hoeft, Rachel Marshall and, Louis Bach | Tips You Won’t Get at Grant Writing Courses: NIH, NSF, foundation grants and philanthropy |
| September 5 2018
BIRC Speaker Series |
Lihong Wang, MD, PhD
UConn Health |
Neuroimaging Markers of Cognitive Reserve and Brain Aging |
