Find out about upcoming Institute for Mind and Brain events and talks.
Events: 2023-2024
These twice-monthly sessions explore a range of brain related topics with discussions
led by leading researchers.
IMB members may also be interested in attending Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR) lectures: https://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/
April 5, 2024
(in)Visibility: The Aesthetic Dimensions of Perception A half-day symposium that brings
together the arts, humanities and sciences. Share ideas, create original artwork and
generate new directions for thinking and making.
Friday, April 5, 2024 Noon – 3:30 pm Hollings Library Program Room @ Thomas Cooper Library Free and open to the public
12:00 - 1:00 pm Keynote talk from Susana Martinez-Conde Now You See it, Now You Don’t: Invisibility, Perception, and Illusion Dr. Martinez-Conde, Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology at SUNY Downstate Medical
School, bridges perceptual, oculomotor, and cognitive sciences. She is best known
for her studies on illusions, eye movements and perception, neurological disorders,
and attentional misdirection in stage magic.
1:15 - 3:30 pm Conversation through Art-Making Drop in to create exploratory artworks about illusion, perception and (in)visibility, and
their relation to the humanities. How is an illusion created and sustained? What does
it mean to be invisible? How does camouflage operate in daily life? How do we aesthetically
visualize or articulate cross-sensory perceptions? Materials and refreshments provided.
April 12 2024: Workshop on IRT
In partnership with the Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR), the IMB will be hosting a workshop on Item Response Theory (IRT). More details
will be coming soon about the agenda and how to register.
April 19, 2024
IMB seminar - pending speaker
Colloquium Series Talks - Archive
These twice-monthly sessions explore a range of brain related topics with discussions
led by leading researchers.
2023-2024
Due to a conflict with our speaker, we have re-scheduled Dr. MacDonald to next month.
Dr. Maryellen MacDonald, University of Wisconsin Department of Psychology
IMB seminar - pending speaker
Save the date for this year's IMB Conference on the Reading Brain. This conference
will be chaired byDr. Suzanne Adlof.
IMB seminar - pending speaker
IMB seminar - pending speaker
IMB seminar - pending speaker
In partnership with the Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR), the IMB will be hosting a workshop on Item Response Theory (IRT). More details
will be coming soon about the agenda and how to register.
IMB seminar - pending speaker
Dr. Mark Seidenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Psychology Talk title:Using reading research to improve literacy outcomes
Dr. Cailee Nelson:Dr. Nelson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow Brain Research Across Development (B-RAD)
Lab University of South Carolina. Talk title:Coping with Ostracism: A Neuroscientific Investigation of Mindset and Autistic Characteristics
Sara Wilson, Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics Program, Graduate Research Assistant for Aging Brain
CohortTalk title: Partner-specific Alignment Across Multiple Linguistic Levels in Interactive
Dialogue
Dr. Xiaoxue (Jessie) Fudiscussed her research program and future directions.
Meet and greet: To kick off the 2023-2024 colloquium season, the Institute for Mind and Brain is
inviting you for a meet-and-greet on Friday August 25th, at noon, in the Walsh conference
room in Barnwell (Dept. of Psychology). Lunch will be served, and Dr. Rutvik Desai,
the interim director of the IMB, will give a brief overview of the mission of the
IMB, and of events and opportunities offered through the IMB in the coming season!
Title: Are people worth the effort? The brain basis for social decision-making
Student Guest Speaker #2: Deepa Tilwani, USC
Title: TBD
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227 Guest Speaker: Dr. Bradley Postle, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Controlling the Contents of Working Memory
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227 Guest Speaker: Dr. Jerry Tang, UT Austin
Title: Decoding continuous language from fMRI recordings
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227 Guest Speaker: Dr. Simon Fischer-Baum, Director, NSF Perception, Action, and Cognition Program
Title: Funding at the National Science Foundation
Abstract: The National Science Foundation supports fundamental research and education in science
and engineering – including fundamental research about how the mind and brain works.
Opportunities at the NSF change all the time. This presentation and Q&A session will
provide information on current funding opportunities related to your community – but
also more general information about the NSF merit criteria and the review process
so that you can be prepared when new opportunities emerge. How to find the appropriate
program for your work and some tips for writing successful proposals will also be
covered.
12:00pm - 1:30pm Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227 Guest Speaker: Meisam Arjmandi Talk Title: Towards a personalized approach to improve speech and language outcomes
in cochlear implant listeners
12:00pm - 1:30pm Barnwell College - Walsh Conference Room 227 Guest Speaker: Yuan Wang Talk Title: Modeling the Shape of Brain Signals and Networks with Topological Data
Analysis
The IMB hosted a workshop on transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS), geared
towards trainees. Dr. Karim Johari from Louisiana State University.
Dr. Christian O'Reilly from USC, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial
Intelligence Institute (#AllSC), and the Autism and Neurodevelopment Disorders Center
(#USCAN). 3:30pm-4:45pm Talk Title: EEG functional connectivity and its application to the study of Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Dr. Jennifer Vendemia from USC, Department of Psychology and Institute for Mind and
Brain 3:30pm - 4:45pm Talk Title: Proprioception and the Impact of LBP: A Tale of Two Cortical Systems
Dr. Robert Mason from Carnegie Mellon University 3:30pm Talk Title: The new cognitive educational neuroscience: a neurosemantic approach
to the science of learning
