Meetings held via Zoom on Mondays, 12:05PM - 1:15PM
SPRING 2022
04/18
Students Talks: Fernanda Morales Calva, Yu Lu, Ivanova Veras de Jesus
04/11
Student Talks: Ryan Brown, Kayla Clark
04/04
Student Talks: Pauline Goodson, Katia Kazhuro
03/28
Student Talks: Rachel Zahn, Lorena Ferguson, Sarah Irons
03/21
Student Talks: Eva Dicker, Lydia Wu
03/14
Spring Break – No Meeting Scheduled
03/07
Student Talks: Michelle Chen, Mingjun Zhai
02/28
Speaker: Dr. Suparna Rajaram – Stony Brook University
02/21
Speaker: Dr. Kyle Murdock – Penn State University
02/14
Speaker: Dr. Erin Westgate – University of Florida
02/07
Speaker: Dr. Noga Cohen – University of Haifa
01/31
Speaker: Dr. Ariel James – Macalester College
01/24
Speaker: Dr. Wilma Bainbridge – University of Chicago
01/17
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – No Meeting Scheduled
01/10
Speaker: Dr. Ajay Satpute – Northeastern University
FALL 2021
11/29
Speaker: Dr. Leslie Hammer – Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences
11/22
Speaker: Dr. Rosie Shrout – Purdue University
11/15
Speaker: Dr. Angie LeRoy – Rice University
11/08
Speaker: Dr. Kristen Kennedy – University of Texas at Dallas
11/01
Speaker: Dr. Michele Diaz – Pennsylvania State University
10/25
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Voss – University of Iowa
10/18
Speaker: Dr. Bonnie Nozari – Carnegie Mellon University
10/11
No speaker scheduled – Midterm Recess
10/04
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Lockhart – Wake Forest School of Medicine
09/27
Speaker: Dr. Mark Kunik – Baylor College of Medicine
09/20
Speaker: Dr. Vishnu Murty – Temple University
**Q&A with graduate students afterwards on issues related to diversity and inclusion
09/13
Speakers: Rice University doctoral candidates Autumn Horne and Katia Kazhuro
09/06
No speaker scheduled – Labor Day
08/30
No speaker scheduled – Organizational Meeting
SPRING 2021
04/26
First-Year Project Presentations: Part 2 – Psychological Sciences Doctoral Students
04/19
First-Year Project Presentations: Part 1 – Psychological Sciences Doctoral Students
04/12
Speaker: Dr. Lauren Whitehurst – University of Kentucky
04/05
Speaker: Dr. Anka Vujanovic – University of Houston
03/29
Senior Students Update: Part 2 – Psychological Sciences Doctoral Students
03/22
Speaker: Dr. Baldwin Way – Ohio State University
03/15
Senior Students Update: Part 1 – Psychological Sciences Doctoral Students
03/08
Speaker: Dr. Chelsea Helion – Temple University
03/01
Rice Sprinkle Day – no speaker scheduled
02/22
Speaker: Elizabeth Marsh, M.D. – Johns Hopkins BMC
02/15
Speaker: Dr. Laura Sanchez – Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE)
02/08
Reuben Fischer-Baum – Washington Post
02/01
Organizational Meeting – Rice C/H/AT Groups
FALL 2020
11/30
Speaker: Dr. Hossein Karimi – Pennsylvania State University
11/23
Speaker: Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock – University of Texas at Austin
11/16
Speaker: Dr. Qingqing Qu – Rice University; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
11/09
Speaker: Dr. Gagan Wig – University of Texas at Dallas
11/02
Speaker: Dr. Brian Anderson – Texas A&M University
10/26
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Kark – University of California - Irvine
10/19
No speaker scheduled
10/12
Speaker: Dr. Simon Fischer-Baum – Rice University
10/05
Speaker: Dr. Randi Martin – Rice University
09/28
No speaker scheduled
09/21
Speaker: Colin Noe – Ph.D. candidate at Rice University
09/14
Speakers: Drs. Elena Grigorenko, Shiva Khalaf, Nan Li, Lisa Chinn, Olga Burenkova – University of Houston
09/07
No speaker scheduled
SPRING 2020
04/20
Speaker: Tatiana Schnur, Baylor College of Medicine
04/13
Speakers: Colin Noe, Mingjun Zhai, Yingxue Tian – Graduate Students, Rice University
04/06
Speakers: Sarah Irons, Autumn Horne, Rachel Zahn – Graduate Students, Rice University
03/23
Speaker: Brian Anderson, Texas A&M University
03/16
No Speaker – Spring Break
03/09
Speaker: Arturo Hernandez, University of Houston
03/02
Speaker: Ben Tamber-Rosenau, University of Houston
02/24
Speaker: TBD
02/17
Speaker: Randi Martin, Rice University
02/10
Speaker: Peggy Blake, University of Houston
02/03
Speaker: Qingqing Qu, Rice University; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
01/27
Speaker: Angie LeRoy, Ph.D., Rice University
FALL 2019
12/02
Speaker: Jung-Hua Ding, Baylor College of Medicine
11/25
Speaker: Jeff Yau, Baylor College of Medicine
11/18
Speaker: Stephanie Leal, Rice University (joint meeting with Health Tea)
11/11
Speaker: Kelly Vaughn, UT Health
11/04
Speaker: Tim Schroeder, Rice University
10/28
No speaker scheduled; lab members traveling to Academy of Aphasia conference
10/21
Speaker: Simon Fischer-Baum, Rice University
09/09
Speaker: Luis Hernandez-Rojas
SPRING 2019
04/22
Speaker: Dr. Alex Morgan, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Rice University
04/15
Speaker: Rachel Zahn, Psychological Sciences graduate student
04/08
Speaker: Autumn Horne, Psychological Sciences graduate student
04/01
Speaker: Yingxue Tian, Psychological Sciences graduate student
03/25
Speaker: Mingjun Zhai, Psychological Sciences graduate student
03/18
Speaker: Sarah Irons, Psychological Sciences graduate student
03/11
No speaker scheduled; Spring Break
03/04
Speaker: Dr. John Lindstedt, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Human-Computer Interaction & Human Factors RIG, Rice University
02/18
Speaker: Dr. Christof Karmonik, Houston Methodist
02/11
Speaker: Dr. Lisa O’Bryan – Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology RIG, Rice University
02/04
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Manker, Lecturer in Linguistics at Rice University
01/28
Speaker: Dr. Nitin Tandon, McGovern Medical School
FALL 2018
11/26
Speaker: Dr. Ferenc Bunta – University of Houston, Communication Sciences & Disorders
11/19
No speaker scheduled
11/12
Speakers: Curtiss Chapman & Colin Noe, Psychological Sciences Graduate Students
11/05
Speaker: Dr. Randi Martin – Professor in Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience RIG, Rice University
10/29
Speaker: Dr. Brett Foster – Baylor College of Medicine, Neurosurgery
10/22
No speaker scheduled
10/15
Joint meeting with I-O Psychology RIG
10/01
Speaker: Dr. Debshila Basu Mallick – OpenStax, Rice University
09/24
Speaker: Dr. Phil Grimaldi – OpenStax, Rice University
09/17
Speaker: Dr. Patricia DeLucia – Professor in Human-Computer Interaction & Human Factors RIG, Rice University
09/10
Speaker: Qiuhai Yue, Psychological Sciences Graduate Student
08/27
Speaker: Dr. Matt McGinley – Baylor College of Medicine, Neuroscience
SPRING 2018
04/16
Speaker: Rachel Zahn and Autumn Horne – First-Year Project
04/09
Speaker: Mingjun Zhai – Second-Year Project
04/02
Speaker: Sarah Irons – Second-Year Project
03/26
Speaker: Qiuhai Yue
03/19
Speaker: Colin Noe – N1 Master’s Project Report
03/05
Speaker: Dr. Simon Fischer-Baum – Practice Braille Symposium Talk
02/26
Speaker: Dr. James Dannemiller – The gene COMT and its fellow travelers in prefrontal cortex
02/19
Speaker: Dr. Jack Byrne – Pharmacological Approaches and Computer-Assisted Optimization of Training Schedules to Enhance Memory Mechanisms in a Model Organism
02/12
Speaker: Dr. Chris Watson – Brain Connectivity in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury
02/05
No scheduled speaker
01/29
No scheduled speaker
01/22
Speaker: Dr. James Dannemiller - Discussion of Chapman, C. D., Benedict, C., & Schioth, H. B. (2018). Experimenter gender and replicability in science. Science Advances, 4(1), 1-7. e1701427.
01/08
Speaker: Dr. Shantanu Jadhav – Neural Ensemble Mechanisms Underlying Memory-Guided Behavior
FALL 2017
11/20
Speaker: Curtiss Chapman
11/13
Speaker: Dr. Bryan Denny
11/06
No scheduled speaker
10/30
Speaker: Dr. Randi Martin
10/23
Speaker: Dr. James Pomerantz
10/16
No scheduled speaker
10/09
Speaker: Yingxue Tian
10/02
No scheduled speaker
09/25
Speaker: Dr. Arturo Hernandez
09/18
Speaker: Dr. Cameron Buckner – From Association to Reason-Transformational Abstraction in Deep Learning Neural Networks
09/11
Speaker: Dr. Alex Morgan – Autonoetic Animals
09/04
No scheduled speaker
08/28
Speaker: Dr. Jack Byrne - Pharmacological Approaches and Computer-Assisted Optimization of Training Schedules to Enhance Memory Mechanisms in a Model Organism
Spring 2017
04/17
Speaker: Sarah Irons & Migjun Zhai
04/03
Speaker: Dr. Kyle Murdock
03/27
Speaker: Dr. Xaq Pitkow
03/20
Speaker: Yingxue Tian
02/27
Speaker: Dr. Bryan Denny
02/13
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Fagundes
01/30
Speaker: Dr. Sergey Kornilov
01/23
Article Discussion
Fall 2016
11/28
Speaker: TBD
11/21
Speaker: James Dannemiller, Department of Psychology, Rice University
11/14
Speaker: Hao Yan, Department of Psychology, Rice University
11/7
Speaker: Anne Sereno, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, UT-Health Sciences
10/31
Speaker: Colin Noe & Hao Yan, Department of Psychology, Rice University
10/24
Cancelled
10/17
Cancelled
10/10
Cancelled
10/3
Speaker: Simon Fischer-Baum & Curtiss Chapman, Department of Psychology, Rice University
9/26
Speaker: Randi Martin, Department of Psychology, Rice University
9/19
Speaker: Benjamin Tamber-Rosenau, Department of Psychology, University of Houston
Spring 2016
4/6
Speaker: Curtiss Chapman, Department of Psychology, Rice University
3/30
Speaker: Harvey Levin & Mary Newsome, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, BCM
3/23
Speaker: Colin Noe & Debshilla Basu Mallick, Department of Psychology, Rice University
3/16
Speaker: Tao Wei, Department of Psychology, Rice University
3/9
Cancelled
2/24
Speaker: Qiuhai Yue, Department of Psychology, Rice University
2/17
Speaker: Phil Grimaldi, OpenStax, Rice University
2/10
Speaker: Hao Yan & Yingxue Tian, Department of Psychology, Rice University
2/3
Speaker: Dana DeMaster, Children’s Learning Institute, UT-Health Sciences
1/27
Speaker: Marina Vanucci, Department of Statistics, Rice University
1/20
Speaker: Simon Fischer-Baum, Department of Psychology, Rice University
1/13
Speaker: Maya L Henry, Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Texas, Austin
Fall 2015
11/18
Discussion: Chabris, C. F., et al. (2012). Most reported genetic associations with general intelligence are probably false positives.. Psychological Science, 23(11), 1314--1323.
11/11
Speaker: Alicia Chang, Department of Psychology, Rice University
11/4
Speaker: James Pomerantz, Department of Psychology, Rice University
10/28
Discussion: Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349, aac4716.
10/21
CANCELLED
10/14
Speaker: Heather Dial and Julie Hughes, Department of Psychology, Rice University
10/7
Speaker: Dr. Johannes Rennig, Postdoc Baylor College of Medicine
Spring 2015
4/22
Speaker: Yingxue Tian and Colin Noe, Psychology Graduate Students, Rice University
4/15
Speaker: Debshila Basu Mallick, Psychology Graduate Student, Rice University
4/8
Speaker: Yu-Hsuan (Alicia) Chang, Psychology Graduate Student, Rice University
4/1
Speaker: TBD
2/25
Speaker: Robert Englebretson, Department of Linguistics, Rice University
3/18
Speaker: Qiuhai Yue, Psychology Graduate Student, Rice University
3/11
Speaker: Curtiss Chapman, Psychology Graduate Student, Rice University
2/25
Speaker: Heather Dial, Psychology Graduate Student, Rice University
2/18
Speaker: Ruth de Diego Balaguer, Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, University of Barcelona
2/11
Speaker: Hao Yan, Psychology Graduate Student, Rice University
1/28
Speaker: Tao Wei, Psychology Graduate Student, Rice University
1/21
Speaker: Anthony Brandt, Shepard School of Music, Rice University
Fall 2014
12/3
Speaker: Jeff Yau, Assistant Professor Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
11/12
Speaker: Julie Huges, Department of Psychology, Rice University
11/5
Speaker: John Magnotti, Neuroscience, UT-HSC
10/29
Speaker: Heekyeong Park, Department of Psychology, UT-Arlington
10/22
Speaker: Özge Gürcanli, Department of Psychology, Rice University
10/15
Speaker: Alda Rivas, Department of Psychology, Rice University
10/8
Speaker: Genevera Allen, Department of Statistics, Rice University
10/1
Speaker: Deepna Devkar, Neuroscience, UT-HSC; Kim Orsten, Department of Psychology, Rice University
9/24
Speaker: Randi Martin, Department of Psychology, Rice University
9/17
Speaker: Stuart Red, Neuroscience, UT-HSC
9/10
Speaker: Kelly Barnes, Assistant Professor Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
9/3
Speaker: Mark Gibson, Department of Linguistics, Rice University
8/27
Speaker: Bruno Breitmeyer, Department of Psychology, University of Houston
Spring 2014
4/30
Speaker: Nuray Yozbatiran, UT-HSC
4/23
Speaker: Curtiss Chapman, Department of Psychology, Rice University
4/16
Speaker: Alicia Chang, Department of Psychology, Rice University
4/2
Speaker: Tatiana T. Schnur, Department of Psychology, Rice University
3/26
Speaker: Alda Rivas, Department of Psychology, Rice University; Qiuhai Yue, Department of Psychology, Rice University
3/19
Speaker: Caleb Robinson, UT-HSC; Heather Stern, Social Sciences Grants, Rice University
3/12
Speaker: Nadeeka Dias, UT-HSC; Tao Wei, Department of Psychology, Rice University
2/26
Speaker: Jared Medina, University of Delaware
2/19
Speaker: Don Foss, University of Houston
2/12
Speaker: Stellos Smirnakis, Baylor College of Medicine
1/29
Speaker: Debshila Basu Mallick, Department of Psychology, Rice University; Margaret Tollefson or Katie Noble Carpenter, Rice Office of Foundations and Corporate Research, Rice University
1/22
Speaker: Jarrod Lewis-Peacock, University of Texas
1/15
Speaker: James L. Dannemiller, Department of Psychology, Rice University
Fall 2013
11/6
Speaker: Tilbe Goksun, Koç University, Istanbul
Topic: "Talking and gesturing spatial relations: Evidence from focal brain injury"
10/30
Speaker: James Pomerantz, Department of Psychology, Rice University
Topic: "The Theory of Basic Gestalts, Version 2.0"
10/23
Speaker: Hao Yan, Department of Psychology, Rice University
Topic: "Working Memory and Planning during Sentence Production"
Speaker: Jingyi Geng, Department of Psychology, Rice University
Topic: "The Organization of Concrete and Abstract Concepts: Categorical vs. Associative Relationships"
Speaker: Julie Hughes, Department of Psychology, Rice University
Topic: "Facilitation and Interference in Naming: A Consequence of the Same Learning Process?"
10/16
Speaker: Randi Martin, Department of Psychology, Rice University
Topic: "Implications of Sentence Processing and Sentence Processing Deficits for Embedded Process vs. Storage Buffer Approaches to Working Memory"
10/9