Past Events

Past Events

Social & Personality - S&P Graduate Student Recruitment Event

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Does restudying (without testing) matter? If so, how much?

Roddy Roediger
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development

Liz Pollina, WUSM
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Clinical - Striving to Improve Mental Health Services through Implementation Research

Byron Powell, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Brown School
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Thesis defense - Do Visual Neighborhoods Impact Audiovisual Lexical Decision Time?

Samuel Bennett
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Social & Personality - "An Asset-Based Approach to Understanding and Supporting Anticipated College Belonging for Students from Historically Stigmatized Groups"

Maegan Arney, Doctoral Student, Education, WashU
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - NaLBaNA: A Natural Language to Bayesian Network Agent

David Kenny, PNP
Zoom

Aging & Development - Lifespan research panel

Somers Family Hall Room 215

Clinical - Sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances as a risk factor for the emergence of early-life psychopathology

Caroline Hoyniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, WashU School of Medicine
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Social & Personality - Team Science Workshop led by Tammy English

(Students/Trainees Only)
Somers Family Hall RM 215

MHEALTH RESEARCH CORE SEMINAR - Practical and Ethical Uses of Al as a Co-Scientist in mHealth Research

Sahib Khalsa, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Residence
Director of Anxiety Disorders Research
West Innovation Chair
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
Zoom

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition

Ian Dobbins
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - ISTAART Presentation

Taylor Pedersen
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Technology-Natives versus Technology-Adopters: Age Differences in Remote Cognitive Assessment for Alzheimer’s Disease

Samhita Katteri, B.A.
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Master's Defense - Age Differences in Remote Cognitive Assessments for Alzheimer Disease

Samhita Katteri
Somers Family Hall RM 215a

Social & Personality - Spring Semester Welcome

(Students/Trainees Only)
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Aging & Development - Organizational meeting and DEI survey

Somers Family Hall Room 215

Clinical - Explícamelo, por favor: Dynamic Ecological Systems Theory of Identity Development and Insights on Diverse Young Adult Identity Development During Shock Events

Bronwyn Nichols Lodato, PhD, Assistant
Professor, Education & African and African American Studies, Arts
& Sciences, WashU
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Social & Personality

Dulce Wilkinson Westberg, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition

1ST YEAR TALKS
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Assessing the Relationship Between Green Space Exposure, Attentional Focus, and Affect Using EMA and Passive Sensing

Wesley Tucker
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Clinical - Practicum Information Session

Student discussion + Raquel
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Special Talk - Biopsychosocial Development of Psychosis Risk

K. Juston Osborne
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Washington University
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Mechanisms of lexical search within the mental lexicon

Abhilasha Kumar, Bowdoin (Special Monday Talk)
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Social & Personality - Masters thesis - “Effort in Extrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation.”

Sarah Luo
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Update Mechanisms in Event Models: Boundary Effects and Dimensional Influences

Sophie Su
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Behavioral Interventions and Precision Medicine

Hayley Ripperger
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - The Taylor Family Institute & New Treatments in Psychiatry: Adventures in Drug Discovery

Charles Zorumski, MD, Samuel B. Guze
Professor of Psychiatry, WashU Medicine
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Individual differences in object recognition

Isabel Gauthier, Vanderbuilt
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Clinical - Case Conference

***Clinical graduate students and faculty only*** Kelsey Baller, B.S. and Samhita Katteri, B.A.
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Social & Personality

Keely Dugan, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Semantic Knowledge and Hierarchical Event Structure Can Scaffold Memory for Temporal Order

Yining Ding
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - GSA practice 2: Jasmine, Blake (Posters)

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Advancements in Trauma-Informed Care: Evidence- Based Practices

Tonya Edmond, Ph.D. Professor of Social Work,
Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Social & Personality - Community Context and Mental Health

Teresa Vargas, PhD
Harvard University
Zoom

Mildred Trotter Lecture - How Memory Shapes Value-Based Decision-Making

Daphna Shohamy, PhD
Kavli Professor of Brain Science
Director and CEO of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
at Columbia University
Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium

Aging & Development - Risky Decision Dynamics: Examining Choices Across Age and Context

Colleen Frank
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - (Master’s Defense) “Examining the Relationship Between Regional Vulnerability and Psychotic-Like Experiences in Adolescents: The Potential Mediating Role of Cognition”

Patrick Lindsley, B.A., B.S.
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Colloquia - Taking the self out of self control

Kevin Ochsner, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Columbia University
Wilson 214

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Does the pupil reliably signal the encoding value of memoranda?

Gizem Filiz
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - GSA practice 1: Emily, Karysa (Papers)

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Case Conference

***Clinical graduate students and faculty only*** Patrick Lindsley, B.A., B.S. and Carly Robinson,
B.A., M.A.
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Social & Personality - International Job Market Panel

Students and trainees only
Zoom

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Adaptation in speech perception

Kristin Van Engen
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Time Cast A Spell on You: Future Time Perspective and Healthy Lifespan Development

Pat Hill
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Clinical - (Master’s Defense) Beyond Disability: Older Adult Perceptions of Successful Aging

Payton Rule, B.A.
Somers Family Hall Room 216

20th Annual Norman R. Seay Lecture - Honoring Legacy. Accelerating Progress.”

Commemorating 20 Years of Community-Informed Science & Engagement in Alzheimer Disease Research
Knight Conference Center Washington University Danforth Campus

Master's Defense - "The Effect of Intelligibility on Adaptation and Generalization to an Unfamiliar Accent"

Kaitlyn L. Matthews
Somers Family Hall RM 216B

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Arousal dynamics orchestrate brain, body, and behavior in time

Ryan Raut, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Navigation strategy use in learned environments in younger and older adults

Alana Muller
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Social & Personality

Aejandra Arce, Assistant Professor, University of California Riverside
Zoom | Contact Emily Willroth (emily.w@wustl.edu) for details.

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Egocentricity in collective memory

Roddy Roediger
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Aging and temporal order memory in naturalistic events

Yining Ding
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - (Master’s Defense) Systematic use of subjective value information during effort-cost decision-making: A computational modeling approach across mood and psychotic disorders.

Jojo Dong, B.A.
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Colloquia - !!THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!

Uri Hasson, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Princeton University
Wilson 214

Social & Personality

Selma Uugwanga, PhD student, University of Zurich
Zoom | Contact Emily Willroth (emily.w@wustl.edu) for details.

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Mental Illness and the Workplace

Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Olin Business School
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Examining age differences in retrieval mode and target checking processes in prospective memory strategic monitoring

Maddie Valdez
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Psychosis Across Methods: A Transdiagnostic Functional Connectivity Study and a Qualitative Study on Psychotic Like Experiences in Youth

Nada Dalloul, M.A.
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Social & Personality

Faculty Flash Talks Part 2
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Aging & Development - Faculty flash talks, Consumer Perspectives on Brain Health Supplements

Brian Carpenter & Zach Reagh
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Tell me a story: Investigating the differential effects of narrativization and causal structure of stories on memory

Savannah Born
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Clinical - (Master’s Defense) Latent multivariate profiles associated with psychosis-like experiences at follow-up

Eirini Zoupou, B.A.
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Master's Defense - Investigating the Differential Effects of Narrativization and Causal Structure of Stories on Memory

Savannah Born
Somers Family Hall Room 216a

Social & Personality

Anj Barrett MA Thesis Defense
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Functional organization underlying superior performance in a memory champion

Roselyne Chauvin, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Requesting data and/or participants from the Knight ADRC? What you need to know.

Brian Gordon and Jason Hassenstab
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Clinical - Racial Differences in Language-Based AI Assessment for Personality Traits

Tu Do, M.A.
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Social & Personality

Faculty Flash Talks Part 1
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Characterizing the Intrinsic Neural Dynamics of the Hippocampus

Nichole Bouffard
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Prof Development

Somers Family Hall Room 215

Clinical - 3…2…1…Semester Takeoff

Brian Carpenter, PhD, Interim DCT and Prof of Psychological & Brain Sciences, WashU
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Social & Personality

Graduate Students Only
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Aging & Development - Organizational Meeting

Somers Family Hall Room 215

Dissertation Defense - Segmentation and Memory in Interactive, Inferential Events

Ata Karagoz
Somers Family Hall Room 216A

PHD Defense - The Impact of Blood-Based Biomarkers and Disease-Modifying Medications on Anticipated Reactions of Learning Alzheimer Disease Risk Information

Matthew Picchiello
Zoom

Masters defense - Incentives Influence Congruency Pre-Cue Utilization in the Stroop Task

Chris Nuño
Zoom

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition

Graduate Data Blitz
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Phd Defense - An Intervention to Empower People to Confront Sexism

Grace Drake
Somers Family Hall RM 216 & Zoom

Social & Personality - First Year Presentations

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Testing a network science model of event knowledge

Ken McRae
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Integrating Diversity into Neuropsychological Evaluation

Clinical students
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Disability, Resilience, and Success in Internship Accredited Graduate Programs

Molly Steinhoff, MA, Aaron Gorelik, MA, Payton Rule, BA
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - First Year Presentations

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Cutting through the noise: Modeling cognitive dynamics to obtain a ”complete” picture of cognition

Andrew Aschenbrenner
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Sex Differences in the Risk of Developing Alzheimer Disease, Cognitive Trajectories, and Relationships between Cognition and Pathological Burden

Carly Robinson
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - (Master’s Defense) Title: Associations between Prenatal Inflammation and Dimensions of Depressive Symptoms across the Perinatal Period

Margaret Redic, BS, BA.
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - Black Immigrant Women’s Navigation of Ethnic-Cultural Socialization Messages

Anj Barrett
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - The role of memory in correcting false beliefs.

Chris Wahlheim (UNC Greensboro)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Beyond disability: Older adults’ perceptions of successful aging

Payton Rule
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Debriefing the internship application process

Internship-bound students
Somers Family Hall RM 216

The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series - Helping learners to remember words and phrases (Workshop)

Dr. Frank Boers, Curriculum Studies and Studies in Applied Linguistics Western University Canada
Crow 204

The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series - Trial and error on trial: The case of lexical phrases

Dr. Frank Boers, Curriculum Studies and Studies in Applied Linguistics Western University Canada
Busch 100

Colloquium - Genetic Associations with Externalizing Behaviors in Nearly 4 Million People

Kathryn Paige Harden, Ph.D. - Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin
Wilson 214

Henry and Theresa Biggs Lecture in Linguistics - Complex restrictions from simple constraints

Adam Albright
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - Becoming and Being a Grandparent: Long-Term and Daily Impact of Grandparenthood on Grandparents' Well-Being

Flavia Cherecheș, Tilburg University
Zoom

Linguistics Colloquium - Structure and System of Greek Lyric Meter

Angel Mercado
Wilson 104

Special Talk - “Modeling complex mind-brain relations in affective neuroscience”

Ajay Satpute, Ph.D.
Northeastern University
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - The effect of cues to event segmentation on the resolution of event memory representations.

Maverick Smith
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Age Differences in Emotion Regulation and Risky Decision-Making: The Role of Attention and Arousal

Jasmine Moon
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Faculty Flash Talks

Chad Sylvester, PhD, Deanna Barch, PhD, Ryan Bogdan, PhD
Somers Family Hall RM 216

MHEALTH RESEARCH CORE SEMINAR - “Using AI and Passive Data to Enhance Digital Assessment and Treatment of Mental Health”

Nicholas C. Jacobson, PhD
Associate Professor in Biomedical Data Science, Psychiatry and Computer Science
Director, Treatment Development & Evaluation Core Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Zoom

Annual Lifespan Development Summit - DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTHY LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Switching Between Cognitive Control States? No, Thank You

Merve Ileri Tayar
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Grant funding in aging

Mitch Sommers
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Translational and Cross-Species Approaches to Anhedonia: Implications for Treatment Development and Stratification

Diego Pizzagalli, PhD, Prof of Psychiatry, Harvard; Director, McLean Imaging Center; Director, Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Mark Gold Lecture Series - The rise and rise of drug-induced psychosis

Sir Robin Murray, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatric Research
King’s College, London
Wilson 214

Linguistics Colloquium - Effects of dialect exposure on allophonic processing

Marie Bissell (University of Texas at Arlington)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - Everyday Virtue Expressions as a Function of Virtue Traits and Situational Affordances

Ben Hardin
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Subjective Memorability Explains a Failure of the Signal Detection Recognition Model

Eylul Ardic
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Investigating determinants of dementia and timely diagnosis using Medicare claims linked to cohort data

Bryan James, Rush University
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Better Suicide Risk Detection with the Columbia Protocol: Reducing Workload, Redirecting Scarce Resources and Saving Lives

Adam M. Lesser, LCSW, Asst Prof of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University
*Via Zoom - Mandatory for all clinical students***
Zoom

Colloquium - Inattentional blindness in and out of the lab

Daniel Simons, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wilson 214

Aging & Development - NO TALK

Clinical - No CSS; Spring break

Social & Personality (This talk has been cancelled)

Judy Kwak / Jenn Beatty
Somers Family Hall RM 215

A&D -Master’s Defense: Reliability of Longitudinal Sleep Monitoring in Amyloid-Negative and Amyloid-Positive Older Adults

Taylor Pedersen
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Supervisor information session

Student discussion
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality

Graduate Interview Event (S&P Division Only)
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition

Rachel Smith Peirce (Andy Butler’s lab) and Maddie Valdez (Julie’s lab)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development (This talk has been cancelled)

Rezwana Rezzeque, WUSM (
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Black Children's Joy and Educational Justice

Seanna Leath, PhD and SynClaire Arthur, MS, MA
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Master's Defense - Learning-based strategic monitoring in prospective memory

Maddie Valdez
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - The role of attentional suppression in preventing distraction by salient stimuli

Nicholas Gaspelin (U. Missouri)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Training grant trainee update brief talks

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Measuring neuroplasticity in human development: Potential applications for improving mental health.

Max Herzberg, PhD, Post-doctoral research associate, Dept. of Psychiatry, WUSM
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Memory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job Talk - Dynamics of attention and memory formation across time and development

Alexandra Decker, Ph.D.
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Robert L. Williams Lecture Series - The Psychology of Struggle and Hope: John Henryism and the Health of Black Americans

Sherman A. James, Ph.D.
Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
In the Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Wilson 214

Social & Personality

Grace Drake & Muchen Xi
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Leaders differ from their followers in dysfunctional personality traits

Hillary Anger Elfenbein (Olin)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - DACC practice talks

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Emotion regulation in aging: Implications for clinical science.

Derek Isaacowitz, PhD
Somers Family Hall RM 216