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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia Monday, Feb 4 12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200B (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch)
Best Practices in Psych research: A panel discussion with
Bobbie Spellman, Niall Boger and Geralding Downey
To read a paper on this topic, please click here and here. iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/news/areatalks/socialcognitive.html 2.30-4.00, IAB 1101 (Economic Theory Workshop)
Phillip Strack
Optimal Stopping with Private Information
(with Thomas Kruse)
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Economic Theory Workshop:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/economictheory Thursday, Feb. 7 2.15-3.45, Uris Hall (Finance Seminar)
Job Market
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Finance Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance 4.00-5.00, Schermerhorn 405 (Behavioral Neuroscience)
Vinn Campese (NYU)
“Amygdala Function in Aversive Pavlovian-to-Instrumental
Transfer in a Rodent Sidman Avoidance Paradigm”
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on Behavioral Neuroscience:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/news/areatalks/neuroscience.html Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU Monday, Feb. 4 12.30-1.30, CNS – Washington Square
Meyer Hall, Room 815
4-6 Washington Place
(NYU Neuroscience Colloquia)
Presenter:
Allison Doupe (UCSF)
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the NYU Neuroscience Colloquia
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/colloquia/ Thursday, Feb. 7 12.30-1.30, Room 551 NYU Department of Psychology,
6 Washington Place.
(Cognition and Perception Colloquia)
Randy Gallistel (Rutgers)
Title TBA
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Cognition and Perception Colloquia
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html Weblink of the week What is the most interesting part of the brain?To read a paper on this topic, please click here. Creative ideas and rigorous analysis are the hallmarks of much impactful science. However, there is an oft-aired suspicion in the neuroscience community that some scientists start with an advantage, simply because of the brain region or behaviour they study. We tested this unstated hypothesis by regressing the journal impact factor against both the pattern of brain activity and the experimental keywords across thousands of brain imaging studies. We found the results to be illuminating.
