March 18, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - I Would Have Remembered It! Contributions of Normative and Personal Distinctiveness to Subsequent Memorability of Rejections Eylul Ardic Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 18, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Moving Beyond the Clinic: High-Frequency Cognitive Assessment in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Hannah Wilks Somers Family Hall Room 215
March 17, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Supervisor information session Student discussion Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 06, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality Damon Ladd-Thomas MA Thesis Presentation Somers Family Hall Room 215
March 04, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Neural State Segmentation in Naturalistic Goal-directed Activities Yining Ding Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 04, 2026 2:30 pm CCSN Research Methodology Workshop - uantile Regression: A Statistical Approach to Looking Beyond the Average" Dr. Xuming Zoom
March 04, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Sensory gating and psychiatric risk in childhood Becca Schwarzlose, WashU Med Somers Family Hall Room 215
March 03, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Ethics consultation ****Clinical students and faculty only****** Speaker: Group discussion Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 02, 2026 4:00 pm Robert L Williams Lecture - What in the World are We Thinking? The Place of Culture in Learning Gloria Ladson-Billings, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison Wilson 214
February 25, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - From Screen to Story: The Mind’s Efficient Processing of Movies and Narratives Sophie Sue Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 25, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Speech Perception and Psychosocial Wellbeing Across the Lifespan Bob McMurray/Sita Carraturo, UIowa Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 24, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Case Conference Nada Dalloul, M.A. & Hannah Wilks, M.A. ****Clinical students and faculty only****** Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 20, 2026 3:15 pm The annual Lifespan Development Summit - From Loneliness to Togetherness: Social Connection as a Pathway to Health Across the Lifespan Tiko Yoneda Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 2:15 pm The annual Lifespan Development Summit - WashU Trainee Data Blitz Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 1:00 pm The annual Lifespan Development Summit - Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression Steve Cole Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 11:00 am The annual Lifespan Development Summit - Did That Just Happen?” Racial Discrimination, Rumination, and Mental Health Across the Lifespan Donte Bernard Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 10:00 am The annual Lifespan Development Summit - Childhood Adversity and the Stress Response System: Integrating Neurobiological and Psychosocial Mechanisms Meredith Gruhn Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 10:00 am The annual Lifespan Development Summit The full schedule - 10am to 4:30pm Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 18, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Learning and Transfer of Cognitive Control Merve Ileri Tayar Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 18, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Understanding others’ minds in naturalistic context relies on distributed neural correlates Colleen Hughes, IU Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 17, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Winter Mix and Mingle Faculty and Students Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 13, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Dynamic Individualized Latent Trait Model (DILT) Muchen Xi, Graduate Student, P&BS Somers Family Hall RM 215
February 11, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Dissociation of Anticipatory versus Elaborative Pupil Dilation During Value Directed Encoding Gizem Filiz Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 11, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Lifespan Development Summit tie-in Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 10, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - (Master’s defense) Title: “Yes, And…”: Using Improvisation to Enhance Well-being in Family Caregivers of People with Dementia. Duyen Tran, B.S. Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 09, 2026 4:00 pm Colloquia - From Sleeplessness to Sickness: The Psychobiological Costs of Insufficient Sleep. Aric Prather, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco Wilson 214
February 06, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - S&P Graduate Student Recruitment Event Somers Family Hall RM 215
February 04, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Does restudying (without testing) matter? If so, how much? Roddy Roediger Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 03, 2026 4:00 pm 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
February 03, 2026 8:30 am Thesis defense - Do Visual Neighborhoods Impact Audiovisual Lexical Decision Time? Samuel Bennett Somers Family Hall Room 215
January 30, 2026 1:00 pm 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
January 28, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - NaLBaNA: A Natural Language to Bayesian Network Agent David Kenny, PNP Zoom
January 27, 2026 4:00 pm 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
January 23, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Team Science Workshop led by Tammy English (Students/Trainees Only) Somers Family Hall RM 215
January 22, 2026 10:00 am 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
January 21, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - ISTAART Presentation Taylor Pedersen Somers Family Hall RM 215
January 20, 2026 4:00 pm 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
January 20, 2026 9:00 am Master's Defense - Age Differences in Remote Cognitive Assessments for Alzheimer Disease Samhita Katteri Somers Family Hall RM 215a
January 16, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Spring Semester Welcome (Students/Trainees Only) Somers Family Hall RM 215
January 14, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Organizational meeting and DEI survey Somers Family Hall Room 215
January 13, 2026 4:00 pm 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
December 05, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality Dulce Wilkinson Westberg, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis Somers Family Hall Room 215
December 03, 2025 12:00 pm 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
December 02, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Practicum Information Session Student discussion + Raquel Somers Family Hall Room 216
December 01, 2025 4:00 pm Special Talk - Biopsychosocial Development of Psychosis Risk K. Juston Osborne Postdoctoral Research Scholar Washington University Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 24, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Mechanisms of lexical search within the mental lexicon Abhilasha Kumar, Bowdoin (Special Monday Talk) Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 21, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Masters thesis - “Effort in Extrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation.” Sarah Luo Somers Family Hall Room 215
November 19, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Update Mechanisms in Event Models: Boundary Effects and Dimensional Influences Sophie Su Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 19, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Behavioral Interventions and Precision Medicine Hayley Ripperger Somers Family Hall RM 215
November 18, 2025 4:00 pm 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
November 12, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Individual differences in object recognition Isabel Gauthier, Vanderbuilt Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 11, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Case Conference ***Clinical graduate students and faculty only*** Kelsey Baller, B.S. and Samhita Katteri, B.A. Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 07, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality Keely Dugan, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri Somers Family Hall Room 215
November 05, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Semantic Knowledge and Hierarchical Event Structure Can Scaffold Memory for Temporal Order Yining Ding Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 05, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - GSA practice 2: Jasmine, Blake (Posters) Somers Family Hall RM 215
November 04, 2025 4:00 pm 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
October 31, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Community Context and Mental Health Teresa Vargas, PhD Harvard University Zoom
October 29, 2025 4:00 pm 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
October 29, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Risky Decision Dynamics: Examining Choices Across Age and Context Colleen Frank Somers Family Hall RM 215
October 28, 2025 4:00 pm 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
October 27, 2025 4:00 pm Colloquia - Taking the self out of self control Kevin Ochsner, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Columbia University Wilson 214
October 22, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Does the pupil reliably signal the encoding value of memoranda? Gizem Filiz Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 22, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - GSA practice 1: Emily, Karysa (Papers) Somers Family Hall RM 215
October 21, 2025 4:00 pm 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
October 17, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality - International Job Market Panel Students and trainees only Zoom
October 15, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Adaptation in speech perception Kristin Van Engen Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 15, 2025 Aging & Development - Time Cast A Spell on You: Future Time Perspective and Healthy Lifespan Development Pat Hill Somers Family Hall Room 215
October 14, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - (Master’s Defense) Beyond Disability: Older Adult Perceptions of Successful Aging Payton Rule, B.A. Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 14, 2025 4:00 pm 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
October 13, 2025 8:30 am Master's Defense - "The Effect of Intelligibility on Adaptation and Generalization to an Unfamiliar Accent" Kaitlyn L. Matthews Somers Family Hall RM 216B
October 08, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Arousal dynamics orchestrate brain, body, and behavior in time Ryan Raut, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 08, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Navigation strategy use in learned environments in younger and older adults Alana Muller Somers Family Hall Room 215
October 03, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality Aejandra Arce, Assistant Professor, University of California Riverside Zoom | Contact Emily Willroth (emily.w@wustl.edu) for details.
October 01, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Egocentricity in collective memory Roddy Roediger Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 01, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Aging and temporal order memory in naturalistic events Yining Ding Somers Family Hall RM 215
September 30, 2025 4:00 pm 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
September 29, 2025 4:00 pm Colloquia - !!THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!! Uri Hasson, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Princeton University Wilson 214
September 26, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality Selma Uugwanga, PhD student, University of Zurich Zoom | Contact Emily Willroth (emily.w@wustl.edu) for details.
September 24, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Mental Illness and the Workplace Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Olin Business School Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 24, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Examining age differences in retrieval mode and target checking processes in prospective memory strategic monitoring Maddie Valdez Somers Family Hall RM 215
September 23, 2025 4:00 pm 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
September 19, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality Faculty Flash Talks Part 2 Somers Family Hall Room 215
September 17, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Faculty flash talks, Consumer Perspectives on Brain Health Supplements Brian Carpenter & Zach Reagh Somers Family Hall RM 215
September 17, 2025 4:00 am 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
September 16, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - (Master’s Defense) Latent multivariate profiles associated with psychosis-like experiences at follow-up Eirini Zoupou, B.A. Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 12, 2025 2:00 pm Master's Defense - Investigating the Differential Effects of Narrativization and Causal Structure of Stories on Memory Savannah Born Somers Family Hall Room 216a
September 12, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality Anj Barrett MA Thesis Defense Somers Family Hall Room 215
September 10, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Functional organization underlying superior performance in a memory champion Roselyne Chauvin, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 10, 2025 12:00 pm 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
September 09, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Racial Differences in Language-Based AI Assessment for Personality Traits Tu Do, M.A. Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 05, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality Faculty Flash Talks Part 1 Somers Family Hall Room 215
September 03, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Characterizing the Intrinsic Neural Dynamics of the Hippocampus Nichole Bouffard Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 02, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - 3…2…1…Semester Takeoff Brian Carpenter, PhD, Interim DCT and Prof of Psychological & Brain Sciences, WashU Somers Family Hall Room 216
August 01, 2025 11:00 am Dissertation Defense - Segmentation and Memory in Interactive, Inferential Events Ata Karagoz Somers Family Hall Room 216A
May 30, 2025 10:00 am PHD Defense - The Impact of Blood-Based Biomarkers and Disease-Modifying Medications on Anticipated Reactions of Learning Alzheimer Disease Risk Information Matthew Picchiello Zoom
May 08, 2025 10:00 am Masters defense - Incentives Influence Congruency Pre-Cue Utilization in the Stroop Task Chris Nuño Zoom
April 30, 2025 10:00 am Phd Defense - An Intervention to Empower People to Confront Sexism Grace Drake Somers Family Hall RM 216 & Zoom
April 23, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Testing a network science model of event knowledge Ken McRae Somers Family Hall RM 216
April 23, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Integrating Diversity into Neuropsychological Evaluation Clinical students Somers Family Hall RM 215
April 22, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Disability, Resilience, and Success in Internship Accredited Graduate Programs Molly Steinhoff, MA, Aaron Gorelik, MA, Payton Rule, BA Somers Family Hall RM 216
April 16, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Cutting through the noise: Modeling cognitive dynamics to obtain a ”complete” picture of cognition Andrew Aschenbrenner Somers Family Hall RM 216
April 16, 2025 12:00 pm 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
April 15, 2025 4:00 pm 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
April 11, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Black Immigrant Women’s Navigation of Ethnic-Cultural Socialization Messages Anj Barrett Somers Family Hall RM 215
April 09, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - The role of memory in correcting false beliefs. Chris Wahlheim (UNC Greensboro) Somers Family Hall RM 216
April 09, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Beyond disability: Older adults’ perceptions of successful aging Payton Rule Somers Family Hall RM 215
April 08, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Debriefing the internship application process Internship-bound students Somers Family Hall RM 216
April 08, 2025 9:00 am 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
April 07, 2025 4:00 pm 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
April 07, 2025 4:00 pm 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
April 04, 2025 3:00 pm Henry and Theresa Biggs Lecture in Linguistics - Complex restrictions from simple constraints Adam Albright Somers Family Hall RM 216
April 04, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Becoming and Being a Grandparent: Long-Term and Daily Impact of Grandparenthood on Grandparents' Well-Being Flavia Cherecheș, Tilburg University Zoom
April 03, 2025 2:30 pm Linguistics Colloquium - Structure and System of Greek Lyric Meter Angel Mercado Wilson 104
April 03, 2025 9:00 am Special Talk - “Modeling complex mind-brain relations in affective neuroscience” Ajay Satpute, Ph.D. Northeastern University Somers Family Hall RM 215
April 02, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - The effect of cues to event segmentation on the resolution of event memory representations. Maverick Smith Somers Family Hall RM 216
April 02, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Age Differences in Emotion Regulation and Risky Decision-Making: The Role of Attention and Arousal Jasmine Moon Somers Family Hall RM 215
April 01, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Faculty Flash Talks Chad Sylvester, PhD, Deanna Barch, PhD, Ryan Bogdan, PhD Somers Family Hall RM 216
March 31, 2025 12:00 pm 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
March 28, 2025 10:00 am Annual Lifespan Development Summit - DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTHY LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT Somers Family Hall RM 215
March 26, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Switching Between Cognitive Control States? No, Thank You Merve Ileri Tayar Somers Family Hall RM 216
March 26, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Grant funding in aging Mitch Sommers Somers Family Hall RM 215
March 25, 2025 4:00 pm 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
March 24, 2025 4:00 pm 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
March 21, 2025 3:00 pm Linguistics Colloquium - Effects of dialect exposure on allophonic processing Marie Bissell (University of Texas at Arlington) Somers Family Hall RM 216
March 21, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Everyday Virtue Expressions as a Function of Virtue Traits and Situational Affordances Ben Hardin Somers Family Hall RM 215