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CBB talk series
The Cognitive Brown Bag (CBB) is a graduate student organized talk series, primarily attended by the faculty, graduate students, and staff from the cognitive labs at Dartmouth College. A list of past CBB talks can be found here.
Organizers: Tommy Botch (Finn/Robertson labs), Yong Hoon Chung (Stoermer lab), Zizhuang Miao (Wager lab).
Academic year 2024-2025
Unless otherwise noted, talks will be held on Tuesdays from 1:15-2:00 p.m. in Moore 110.
| Winter 2025 | Speaker | Talk title | Abstract |
| March 4 | Halie Olson (MIT) | Language in the developing mind and brain | One of the most remarkable aspects of early childhood is language development: a process that epitomizes the interplay between nature and nurture in the human brain. Language skills blossom during the second year of life, but they continue to be shaped by children’s experiences as they grow and encounter new words and linguistic structures through formal education and their own pursuits. In this talk, I’ll discuss a few lines of my research that aim to characterize and explore various influences on language processing in children using both neural and behavioral measures, including: a remote, randomized controlled trial intervention to examine the impact of audiobooks paired with instructional support on children’s language skills, an fMRI study to investigate how children’s idiosyncratic personal interests impact language processing in the brain, and an fMRI study of language processing in awake toddlers. Together, these studies utilize complementary approaches to measuring language in the minds and brains of children, and explore how factors such as interest and exposure may impact language processing during development. |
| March 11 | |||
| Aryan Yazdanpanah (Soltani lab - Dartmouth College) | |||
| Yong Hoon Chung (Stoermer lab - Dartmouth College) | |||
| Spring 2025 | Speaker | Talk title | Abstract |
| April 1 | |||
| Xinming Xu (Manning lab - Dartmouth College) | |||
| April 15 | |||
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| June 3 | |||