Lab Meetings and Talks

Google Calendar of upcoming Lab Meetings and Talks

October 2021

Mini-labapalooza
Practice talk by Gal Raz and Community of Practice update by Ashley Thomas

September 2021

Practice talk by Heather Kosakowski
Mini-labapalooza
Talk by Fernanda De La Torre Romo

August 2021

Talk by Ashley Jordan
Talk by Vanessa Vieites
Lab discussion

July 2021

Talk by Shari Liu and Rebecca Saxe
Talk by Ivan Simpson-Kent
Talk by Eleanor Holton and Daniel Nettle
Lab discussion

June 2021

Labapalooza!
Talk by Ari Strandburg-Peshkin
Talk by Antoine Coutrot

May 2021

Talk by Halie Olson
Talk by Ben Harvey
Talk by Roni Maimon
Lab discussion on value of scientific research

April 2021

Talk by Marlene Meyer
Talk by Sadie Zacharek
Talk by Julien Mayor
Lab discussion on open science

March 2021

Lab discussion on neural signals of novelty
Talk by Martin Schrimpf
Talk by Pontus Strimling
Lab discussion on formal theory
Talks by Setayesh Radkani & Era Wu

February 2021

Talk by Moira Dillon
Talk by Regan Bernhard
Talk by Michele Gelfand & Yan Mu
Talk by Eric Martinez

January 2021

Talk by Julia Marshall
Talk by Anni Kajanus
Talk by Jenelle Feather
Lab discussion on lab manual

December 2020

Lab discussion on “Discussion before belief” & Talk by Freddy Kamps
Lab discussion on diversity & inclusion in academia
Labapalooza!

November 2020

Talks by Setayesh Radkani & Katie (Kathryn) O’Nell
Joint lab discussion on what social preference means in infants
Talks by Brandon Davis & Era Wu

October 2020

Talk by Marie Amalric
Talk by Tara Mandalaywala
Talks by Gal Raz & Shari Liu
Talk by Nir Jacoby

September 2020

Lab discussion on what looking time means in kids
Talk by Natalia Velez
Talk by Yun-Fei Liu
Lab discussion on why we study the brain

August 2020

Talks by Michelle Hung & Brandon Davis
Talks by Era Wu & Marika Landau-Wells
Lab discussion on cross-cultural Theory of Mind
Farewell party for Livia Tomova

July 2020

Talks by Freddy Kamps & Setayesh Radkani
Talks by Gal Raz & Shari Liu
Talks by Ashley Thomas & Dae Sean Houlihan
Talks by Halie Olson & Livia Tomova

June 2020

Discussion on racism in science & what academic communities can do
Talk by Katie O’Nell
Talk by Sydney Levine
Lab discussion

May 2020

Talk by Tyler Bonnen
Talk by Matt Sachs
Talk by Vanessa Lobue
Talk by Beau Sievers
Lab discussion on development, learning, and innateness

April 2020

Talk by Erik Nook
Dissertation defense by Shari Liu
Talk by Daniel Nettle
Discussion on reverse inference

March 2020

Joint Meeting with KanLab
Talk by Dorsa Amir

Feburary 2020

Talk by Desmond Ong

December 2019

Labapalooza!

November 2019

Talk by Setayesh Radkani
Talk by Hanne Watkins
Talk by Milan Halgren

October 2019

Talk by Talia Konkle
Talk by Lindsey Powell
Talk by Katie Hoemann
Talk by Gal Raz

September 2019

Talk by Shari Liu
Journal club on the developmental and evolutionary origins of visual cortex
Talk by MH Tessler

August 2019

Talk by Heather
Talk by Ashley
Talk by Halie
Talk by Dae

July 2019

Joint meeting with Roger Levy’s Lab
Talk by Marika
Talk by Livia

June 2019

Talk by Josef Perner
Labapalooza!
Talk by Dien Ho

May 2019

Joint meeting with the McLaughlin Lab (at MIT)
Talk by Wanze Xie

April 2019

Talk by Thuy-vy Nguyen
Talk by Cindy Liu
Talk by Melissa Kibbe
Talk by Lauren DiNicola

March 2019

Joint meeting with the Nelson Lab (at Boston Children’s Hospital)
Talk by Rebecca Littman
Talk by Alan Fiske

February 2019

Talk by Jean-Francois
VMPFC dynamics during naturalistic viewing
How can psychological science improve our world?

January 2019

Talk by Freddy Kamps
Talk by Leyla Isik

December 2018

Development of walking
Labapalooza!

November 2018

Talks by Ashley Thomas and Tingting Zhou
Biological effects of educational interventions

October 2018

Talk by Joe Marks
Joing meeting with the McLaughlin Lab (at Harvard)
Talk by Laura Germine

September 2018

Talk by Déborah Marciano
Neurobiology of leadership
Talk by Denise Werchan
Talk by Kara Weisman

August 2018

Discussion: Is ToM a myth?
Journal discussions on Kawato et al, 2016 and Lau et al, 2016
Talk by Dae Houlihan

July 2018

Journal discussion on Kaiser, 2017 and Cao et al, 2017

June 2018

Discussion: Is fMRI useful for clinical applications?

May 2018

Talk by Indra Patil
Tools for Robust Science seminar 3
Talk by Ashley Thomas
Talk by Haemy Masson
Talk by Marika Landau-Wells

April 2018

Talks by Livia Tomova and Maheen Shermohammed
Tools for Robust Science seminar 2
Joint lab meeting with Tenenbaum lab on Machine ToM
Talk by Hyo Gweon

March 2018

Tools for Robust Science seminar 1

February 2018

Journal discussion on Firestone & Scholl, 2018
Journal discussion on Kragel et al, 2018 and Wheatly, 2018
Talk by Lynee Alves
Journal discussion on Honey et al, 2017

January 2018

Talk by Lauren Atlas

December 2017

Talk by Ajay Satpute

November 2017

Talk by Tobias Grossman
Talk by Tania Singer
Talk by Katie Insel

October 2017

Practice talks by Dae and Lindsey
Journal club discussion on Davis et al, 2014
Practice talk by Stefano

September 2017

Talk by Candace Ross
Talks by Natalie Kataev and Dan Biderman
Joint lab meeting with Kanwisher Lab. Talk by Rosa Lafer-Sousa on Acaro et al., 2017

August 2017

Summer student presentations
Talk by Leyla Isik

July 2017

Journal Club of Marusak et al., 2016 and Emerson et al., 2017
Talk by Cora Mukerji
Group discussion of “differences” vs. “defecits” with BCS headquarters and Schulz lab
Journal Club of Nishimoto et al., 2011
Talk by Steve Ramirez

June 2016

Joint lab meeting with Isaacowitz Lab. Talks by Dae Houlihan and Vanessa Castro
Journal club on Reid et al., 2017 in the context of Johnson et al., 2015.
Reading club discussion of Bedny, Richardson, and Saxe, 2015
Reading club discussion of Skerry and Saxe, 2015

May 2017

Talk by Jack Cao
Journal Club of Gomez et al, 2017 and Song et al., 2015

April 2017

Journal Club discussion of Atzil et al., 2011 and Atzil et al., 2017
Talk by Dorit Dliemann

March 2017

Talk by Jordan Theriault
Talk by Jane Conway
Talk by Katherine McAuliffe

February 2017

Journal club discussion of Delgado et al., 2016 and Stalaker Cooch and Schoenbaum, 2015
Journal club of Srinivasan et al., 2016

January 2017

Talk by Patricia Soto
Talk by Emma Satlof-Bedrick

December 2016

Journal club of Plomin et al., 2016
Talk by Alexandra Rosati

November 2016

Talk by Bjarke Felbo
Joint lab meeting with Kanwisher lab and talk by Dr. Ellen Grant
Talk by Marina Bedny

October 2016

Joint meeting with Nelson Lab to discuss Deen et al., 2016 and Keehn et al., 2015
Talk by Olessia Jouravlev
Talk by Rita Astuti
Talk by Max Kleiman-Weiner

September 2016

Discuss Bowman et al. (2016) Action mechanisms for social cognition: behavioral and neural correlates of developing Theory of Mind. in Developmental Science.
Journal Club of Rhodes and Wellman, 2016 along with Dahl et al., 2014
Joint meeting with Kanwisher lab and talk by Brad Duchaine

July 2016

Talk by Julia Marshall and Alexander Noyes
Talk by Stephen Allsop
Lab discussino of Gabard-Durnam et al., 2016

June 2016

Talk by Justin Martin

May 2016

Journal Club on Oostenbroek papers
Lab discussion about CV of failures
Journal Club on Adolphs et al., 2016

April 2016

RFA discussion
Talk by Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann
Talk by Leyla Isik

March 2016

Talk by Simon Howard
Talk by Susan Gabrieli
Talk by Simon Howard

February 2016

Talk by Deanna Gagne
Journal club on Dale et al., 2015

January 2016

Talk by Drazen Prelac

December 2015

Lab Lollapalooza
Talk by Leah Somerville

November 2015

Talk by Livia Tomova
Talk by Emily Mackevicius
Talk by Yang Wu
Talk by Sydney Levine

October 2015

Talk by Amy Krosch
Talk by Shachar Maidenbaum
Talk by Donal Cahill

September 2015

Talk by Gadi Gilam
Emerson, R.W., Cantlon, J.F. (2015). Continuity and change in children’s longitudinal neural responses to numbers. Developmental Science.
Cantlon, J.F., Li, R. (2015). Neural activity during natural viewing of Sesame Street statistically predicts test scores in early childhood. PLoS Biology.
Talk by Idan Asher Blank
Reproducibility Project
SaxeLab Projects

August 2015

Talk by Jonathan Phillips
Lightening talks
Journal Club

July 2015

Lab discussion about science stings
Talk by Josh Hartshorne
Frank, M.J., Badre D. (2015). How cognitive theory guides neuroscience. Cognition.
Ong, D.C., Zaki, J., Goodman, N.D. (2015). Affective cognition: Exploring lay theories of emotion. Cognition.
Wandell, B.A., Winawer, J. (2015). Computational neuroimaging and population receptive fields. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Cichy, R.M., Ramirez, F.M., Pantazis, D. (2015). Can visual information encoded in cortical columns be decoded from magnetoencephalography data in humans. NeuroImage.

June 2015

Talk by Amy Dawel
Talk by David Dodell-Feder
Talk by Julian Jara-Ettinger
Lab introductions – new summer people!

May 2015

Talk by Mark Thornton
Talk by Ori Ossmy
Talk by Michael Cohen
Discussion about replications
Talk by Hilary

March 2015

Talk by Jorie
Talk by Emile
Talk by Zeynep

February 2015

Talk by Dan Yamins and Michael Cohen
Talk by Nir
Talk by Hilary
Talk by Ev Fedorenko

December 2014

End of Year talks by all lab members
Talk by Lindsey

November 2014

Talk by Chumming Lu
Talk by Justin Vincent
Talk by Amir Sivan

October 2014

Talk by Neil Garrett
Presentations by Dorit, Hilary and Ben
Talk by Tobias Schuwerk

September 2014

Journal club, reading Uri Hasson papers
Talk by Daniel Hawthorne
Talk by Nir

August 2014

Journal club, reading Brian Nosek papers
Journal club, reading Ralph Adolphs papers
Talk by Jorie

July 2014

Talk by Sam Norman-Haignere

June 2014

Saxelab, Dziobek, and Heekeren labs Joint Symposium
Journal club, reading Isabel Dziobek and Hauke Heekeren papers
Talk by Hilary
Talk by Dan Yamins and Ha Hong

May 2014

Talk by Lauren Emberson
Journal club, reading 4 Kevin Pelphrey papers

April 2014

Talk by Sam Gershman
Joint lab meeting with Harold Bekkering‘s lab

March 2014

Heyes, C. (2014) Submentalizing, I am not really reading your mind. Perspectives on Psychological Science; Schuwerk, T., et al. (2014) Implicit and explicit Theory of Mind reasoning in autism spectrum disorders: The impact of experience Autism
Talk by Allan Adams
Talk by Nancy Kanwisher

February 2014

Talk by Amy Finn
Scripts introduction by Nir
Seminar by Radek Cichy

December 2013

End of Year talks by all lab members
Talk by Ilker Yidrem
Talk by Nour Kteily

November 2013

Talk by Stefano Anzellotti
Talk by Anna Hofvander

October 2013

Talk by Jorie

August 2013

Paolacci, G., et al. (2010) Running Experiment on Amazon Mechanical Turk Judgement and Decision Making; Crump, M. et al.,(2013) Evaluating Amazon’s Mechanical Turk as a tool for experimental behavioral research PLos ONE ; Goofman, J., et al. (2013) Data Collection in a Flat World: The Strengths and weaknesses of Mechanical Turk samples Journal of Behavioral Decision MakingM
UROP presentations by Shivani, Ilona and Natalia.

July 2013

Seminar by Mohinish Shukla

June 2013

Wen, X., et al. (2013) Is Granger Causality a viable technique for analyzing fMRI data? PLos ONE; Wen, X. et al. (2012) Causal Interactions in Attention Networks Predict Behavioral Performance Journal of Neuroscience
saxelab canoeing
Seminar by Bhisma Chakrabarti
Talks by Ben and Jorie

May 2013

Bryant, L., et al. (2013) Theory of Mind experience sampling in typical adults. Consciousness and Cognition.
Talk by David Badre
Talk by Jennie Pyers on ToM in deaf children
Talk by Hilary

April 2013

Talk by Talia Konkle
Talk by Ralph Adolphs
Talk by Dorit Kliemann

March 2013

Seminar by Yael Niv
Carter, R., et al. (2012). A Distinct Role of the Temporal-Parietal Junction in Predicting Socially Guided Decisions. Science.
Satpute, A., Badre, D., Ochsner, K. (2012). Distinct Regions of Prefrontal Cortex Are Associated with the Controlled Retrieval and Selection of Social Information. Cerebral Cortex.

February 2013

Talk by Joshua Buckholtz
Talk by Lindsey Powell
Talk by Jorie
Practice job talk by Marina

January 2013

Talk by Fiery Cushman
Talk by Hyo
Talk by Emile

December 2012

Talk by Matthew Rushworth

November 2012

Talk by Steve Frankland
Talk by Alex
Haxby, J., et al. (2012). A Common, High-Dimensional Model of the Representational Space in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex. Neuron

October 2012

Talk by Ella Striem-Amit
Talk by Julia Sliwa
Talk be Renee Baillargeon
Talk by Anna Leshinkaya

September 2012

Rangel, A., Camerer, C., Montague, R. (2008). A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision-making. Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Spiers, H., Maguire, E. (2007). Decoding human brain activity during real-world experiences. Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Qin, J., et al. (2011). How choice modifies preference: Neural correlates of choice justification. Neuroimage
Finger, E., et al. (2006). Caught in the act: The impact of audience on the neural response to morally and socially inappropriate behavior. Neuroimage

August 2012

Frank, M., Goodman, N. (2012). Predicting Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Games. Science
Stiller, A., Goodman, N., Frank, M. (2011). Ad-hoc scalar implicature in adults and children. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

July 2012

Practicie CogSci Conference presentations by Marina, Jorie, Nick, Hilary, and Ben
Talk by Amy Skerry
Morishima, Y. et al. (2012). Linking Brain Structure and Activation in Temporoparietal Junction to Explain the Neurobiology of Human Altruism. Neuron

June 2012

Practice thesis defense by Zeynep Saygin
Talk by Lindsey Powell
Nosek, B., Bar-Anan, Y. (2012). Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication. Psychological Inquiry

May 2012

Talk by Jason Coronel
He, Z., Bolz, M., Baillargeon, R. (2012). 2.5-year-olds succeed at a verbal anticipatory-looking false-belief task. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Surtees, A., Butterfill, S., Apperly, I. (2011). Direct and indirect measures of Level-2 perspective taking in children and adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology
de Villiers, P., de Villiers, J. (2012). Deception dissociates from false belief reasoning in deaf children: implications for the implicit versus explicit theory of mind distinction. British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Wicherts, J., Bakker, M., Molenaar, D. (2011). Willingess to Share Research Data is Related to the Strength of the Evidence and the Quality of Reporting of Statistical Results. PLoS ONE
John, L., Loewenstein, G., Prelec, D. (2012). Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling. Psychological Science
Simmons, J., Nelson, L., Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant. Psychological Science

April 2012

Short talks by Mina, Emile, Jorie, Ben and Alex
Talk by Juan Manuel Contreras
Talk by Kate Hobbs
Connectomics Debate: “Does the brain’s wiring make us who we are?”, between Sebastian Seung and Anthony Movshon

March 2012

Talk by Larisa Heiphetz
Short presentations by Marina, Jorie, Nick, Hilary, and Ben
Talk by Michael Cohen

February 2012

Presentation by Alex
Hoeft, F., et al. (2012) Neural systems predicting long-term outcome in dyslexia.PNAS.
Falk E., Berkman E., Lieberman M. (in press). From neural responses to population behavior: Neural focus group predicts population level media effects. Psychological Science.

January 2012

Presentation by Danny Dilks of MIT B&CS on “cortical plasticity in the human adult visual system”
Presentation by Nick on demographic differences in ToM activation.

December 2011

Talk by Adena Schachner of Harvard on social and musical cognition.
Talk by Gigi Luk of the Harvard Graduate School of Education on “Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children.”
Etkin A., et al. (2004). Individual Differences in Trait Anxiety Predict the Response of the Basolateral Amygdala to Unconsciously Processed Fearful Faces. Neuron. 44() 1043-1055.
Hare T., Camerer C., Knoepfle D., O’Doherty J., Rangel A. (2010). Value Computations in Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex during Charitable Decision Making Incorporate Input from Regions Involved in Social Cognition. The Journal of Neuroscience. 30(2) 583-590.
Gilbert S., Meuwese J., Towgood K., Frith C., Burgess P. (2009). Abnormal functional specialization within medial prefrontal cortex in high-functioning autism: a multi-voxel similarity analysis. Brain. 132(4) 869-878.

November 2011

Talk by Marina.
Baumgartner, T., Knoch, D., Hotz, P., Eisenegger, C., Fehr, E. (2011) Dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex orchestrate normative choice. Nature Neuroscience 14(11) 1468-1474.
Jenkins, A. C., Macrae, C. N., Mitchell, J. P. (2008) Repetition suppression of ventromedial prefrontal activity during judgements of self and others PNAS 105(11) 4507-4512.
Behrens, Timothy E. J., Hunt, Laurence T., Woolrich, Mark W., Rushworth, Matthew F. S. (2008). Associative learning of social value. Nature 456() 245-250.
Stephens, Greg J., Silbert, Lauren J., Hasson, Uri. (2010). Speaker-listener neural coupling underlies successful communication. PNAS 107(32) 14425-14430.
Presentation by Ida Momennejad.

October 2011

Cog Lunch practice talk by Jorie on MVPA.
Presentation by Ev Fedorenko

September 2011

Presentation by Alex on his previous work with TMS.
Lev-Ran, S., Shamay-Tsoory, S.G., Zangen, A., Levkovitz, Y. (2011) Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex impairs theory of mind learning. European Psychology. 6(5).
Sebastian, Catherine L. et al. (2011) Neural processing associated with cognitive and affective Theory of Mind in adolescents and adults. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

August 2011

Vander Wyk, Brent C., Hudac, Caitlin M., Carter, Elizabeth J., Sobel, David M., Pelphrey, Kevin A. (2011) Action Undertanding in the Superior Temporal Sulcus Region. Psychological Science. 20(6) 771-776
Grafton, Scott T., Hamilton, Antonia F. de C. (2007) Evidence for a distributed hierarchy of action representation in the brain. Human Movement Science.

July 2011

Presentation by Abe Friesen, visiting scientist in Tenenbaum lab.
Practice CogSci presentations by Swetha and Hyo.
Short talk by Amy Skerry of Harvard University’s Spelke Lab.
Practice CogSci presentations by Jorie and Marina.
Presentation by Michael Waskom on David Marr’s Levels of Analysis.

June 2011

Talk by Yuhong Jiang
Talk, Poverty, Stress, and Discounting by Johannes Haushofer on the use of neuroscientific mechanisms to investigate international poverty.

May 2011

Presentation by Raliza Stoyanova, a visiting speaker from Cambridge, UK.
Presentation and introduction to MEG by Dimitrios Pantazis
Presentation by Bo Morgan.

April 2011

Presentation by Ben on the STS.
Presentation by Mina.
Presentation by Talia Konkle.
Hasson, U., Malach, R. (2010) Reliability of cortical activity during natural stimulation. Trends In Cognitive Sciences 14(1) 40-48

March 2011

Presentation by Jorie.
Presentation by James.
Presentation by Becky.
Presentation by Liane.
Presentation by Hilary.
Presentation by Hyo.
Periera, F., Mitchell, T., Botvinick, M. (2009) Machine learning classifiers and fMRI: A Tutorial Overview. NeuroImage 45(1) S199-S209

February 2011

Talk, “Perspective Differences: Development and Neural Basis” by visiting scientist Josef Perner
Mitchell, T., et al (2008) Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nounse. Science 320 1191-1195
Just, M., Cherkassky, V., Aryal, S., Mitchell, T. (2010) A Neurosemantic Theory of Concrete Noun Representation Basedon the Underlying Brain Codes. PloS ONE 5(1)
Presentation by visiting scientist Tao Gao.
Presentation by Mina.
Presentation by Marina.

January 2011

Naselaris, T., Kay, KN., Nishimoto, G., Gallant, JL. (2010) Encoding and decoding in fMRI. NeuroImage
Naselaris, T., Prenger, RJ., Kay, KN., Oliver, M., Gallant, JK. (2009) Bayesian reconstruction of natural images from human brain activity. Neuron 63(6) 902-915
Presentation by Nick.
Presentation by Emile.

December 2010

Presentation by Todd.
Presentation by Zeynep.
Presentation by David.
Presentation by Becky.
Presentation by Ben.
Presentation by Hyo.
Presentation by Liane.
Presentation by Jorie.
Presentation by Hilary.
Presentation by Marina.

November 2010

Presentation by Swetha.
Presentation by Becky Nappa.

October 2010

Presentation by Todd.
Gray, J., et al (2005) Affective personality differences in neural processing efficiency confirmed using fMRI. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 5(2) 182-190
Rypma, B., et al (2006) Neural correlates of cognitive efficiency. NeuroImage 33 969-979

September 2010

Presentation by Emile.
Presentation by Hyowon.
Presentation by Jorie.
Presentation by Marina.
Presentation by Elizabeth.

July 2010

Domes, G., et al (2007) Oxytocin Improves “Mind-Reading” in Humans. Biological Psychiatry 61, 731-733
Mikolajczak, M., et al (2010) Oxytocin Makes People Trust, Not Gullible. Psychological Science 21(8), 1072-1074
Evans, N., Levinson, S. (2009) The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32, 429-492
Vogeley, K., Roepstorff, A. (2009) Contexturalising culture and social cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13(12)
Tetlock PE (2003) Thinking the unthinkable: sacred values and taboo cognitions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7(7)
Mikhail J (2007) Universal moral grammar: theory, evidence, and the future. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11(4)
Young, L., Camprodon, J., Hauser, M., Pascual-Leone, A., & Saxe, R. (2010). Disruption of the right temporo-parietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgment. PNAS, 107(15), 6753-8

June 2010

Jonathan Haidt, et al. (2007). The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology. Science. 316, 998 (2007)
Pyers & Senghas (2009). Language Promotes False Belief Understanding. Psychological Science.20(7) 805-827
Peterson C, Wellman H, Liu D (2005). Steps in Theory-of-Mind Development for Children with Deafness or Autism. Child Development. 76(2) 502-517
Apperly, I. A., D. Samson, et al. (2006). Intact first- and second-order false belief reasoning in a patient with severly impaired grammar. Social Neuroscience. 1 (3-4):334-348
Rees, Geraint (2007). Neural correlates of the contents of visual awareness in humans. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society.
Wellman, H. M., Cross, D., & Watson, J. (2001). Meta-analysis of theory-of-mind development: the truth about false belief. Child Development 72, 655-684.
Southgate, et al. (2007) Action anticipation through attribution of false belief by 2-year-olds. Psychological Science.
Apperly, I. A., & Butterfill, S. A. (2009). Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states? Psychological Review.
Ned T. Sahin, et al. (2009) Sequential Processing of Lexical, Grammatical, and Phonological Information Within Broca’s Area. Science.
Peter Hagoort (2005) On Broca, brain, and binding: a new framework. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

May 2010

Lee, J. H., et al. (2010). Global and local fMRI signals driven by neurons defined optogenetically by type and wiring. Nature.
Schummers, J., et al. (2008). Tuned responses of astrocytes and their influence on hemodynamic signals in the visual cortex. Science, 360, 1638-1643.
Dobkins, K. R. (2009). Does visual modularity increase over the course of development? Optometry and Vision Science, 86(6).
Levin, N., et al. (2010). Cortical maps and white matter tracts following long period of visual deprivation and retinal image restoration. Neuron, 65, 21-31.

April 2010

Sosis, R., & Bressler, E. R. (2003). Cooperation and commune longevity: A test of the costly signaling theory of religion. Cross-Cultural Research, 37(2), 211-239.
Atran, S., & Henrich, J. (in press). The evolution of religion: How cognitive by-products, adaptive learning heuristics, ritual displays, and group competition generate deep commitments to prosocial religions.
Mascalzoni, E., Regolin, L., & Vallortigara, G. (2010). Innate sensitivity for self-propelled causal agency in newly hatched chicks. PNAS, 107(9), 4483-4485.
Daisley, J. N., et al. (2009). Lateralization of social cognition in the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus). Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 364, 965-981.
Berdyyeva, T. K., & Reynolds, J. H. (2009). The dawning of primate optogenetics. Neuron, 62,, 159-160.
Liu, X., & Tonegawa, S. (2010). Optogenetics 3.0. Cell, 141, 22-24.
Miesenbock, G., et al. (2009). The optogenetic catechism. Science, 326(395), 395-399.
Krajbich, I., et al. (2009). Using neural measures to economic value to solve the public goods free-rider problem. Science, 326(596), 596-599.
Schleim, S., & Roiser, J. P. (2009) fMRI in translation: the challenges facing real-world applications. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3, 1-7.

March 2010

Presentation by Jesse Graham
Presentation by Nathan Winkler-Rhoades

February 2010

Presentation by Ben Deen
Presentation by Talee Ziv
Presentation by Rebecca Nappa

December 2009

Presentation by Thalia Wheatley

November 2009

Presentation by Marina Bedny
Presentation by Liane Young
Presentation by Elizabeth Redcay
Presentation by Karim Kassam
Presentation by Zeynep Sagin

October 2009

Presentation by Emile Bruneau
SFN poster presentations

August 2009

Presentation by Christine Hooker

July 2009

Martino, B., Harrison, N. A., Knafo, S., Bird, G., & Dolan, R. J. (2008). Explaining enhanced logical consistency during decision making in autism. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(42), 10746-10750.
Lee, D. (2008). Game theory and neural basis of social decision making. Nature Neuroscience, 11(4), 404-409.
Jenkins, A. C., & Mitchell, J. P. (2010). Mentalizing under uncertainty: Dissociated neural responses to ambiguous and unambiguous mental state inferences. Cerebral Cortex, 20(2), 404-410.
Burnett, S., & Blakemore, S. (2009). Functional connectivity during a social emotion task in adolescents and in adults. European Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 1294-1301.

June 2009

Bennett, C. M., Baird, A. A., Miller, M. B., & Wolford, G. L. (2009). Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem atlantic salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction. Poster Presented at LOVE.
Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2008). The discovery of structural form. PNAS, 105(31), 10687-10692.
Potter, M. C., Valian, V. V., Faulconer, B. A. (1977). Representation of a sentence and its pragmatic implications: Verbal, imagistic, or abstract? Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 16, 1-12.
Vander Wyk, B. C., et al. (2009). Action understanding in the superior temporal sulcus region. Psychological Science, 20(6), 771-777.
Saxe, R. R., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2009). Introduction to a special section of developmental social cognitive neuroscience. Child Development, 80(4), 946-951.

May 2009

Cross, S., & Rosenthal, R. (1999). Three models of conflict resolution: Effects on intergroup expectancies and attitudes. Journal of Social Issues, 55(3), 561-580.
Apperly, I. A., & Butterfill, S. A. (in press). Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states? Psychological Review.

March 2009

Pyers, J. E., & Senghas, A. (in press). Language promotes false-belief understanding: Evidence from learners of a new sign language. Psychological Science.
Shick, B., et al. (2007). Language and theory of mind: A study of deaf children. Child Development, 78(2), 376-396.
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February 2009

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January 2009

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September 2008

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August 2008

Birch, S. A. J., & Bloom, P. (2003). Children are cursed: An asymmetric bias in mental-state attribution. Psychological Science, 14(3), 283-286.
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July 2008

Cohen, A. B., & Rozin, P. (2001). Religion and the morality of mentality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81(4), 697-710.
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June 2008

Carter, T. J., & Dunning, D. (2008). Faculty self-assesment: Why evaluating one’s own competence is an intrinsically difficult task. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2/1, 346-360.
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May 2008

Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., & Kawakami, K. (2003). Intergroup contact: The past, the present, and the future. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 6(1), 5-21.
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April 2008

Apperly, I. A. (2008). Beyond simulation-theory and theory-theory: Why social cognitive neuroscience should use its own concepts to study “theory of mind.” Cognition, 107(1), 266-283.
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March 2008

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February 2008

Molden, D. C., Planks, J. E., & Dweck, C. S. (2006). “Meaningful” social inferences: Effects of implicit theories on inferential processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 738-752.
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January 2008

Apperly, I. A., Samson, D., Carroll, N., Hussain, S., & Humphreys, G. (2006). Intact first- and second-order belief reasoning in a patient with severely impaired grammar. Social Neuroscience, 00, 1-15.
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