Lectures
2013 - Present
Creativity In and Out of (Cognitive) Control: Insights from the Neuroscience of Creativity
Evangelia Chrysikou, April 21, 2026
Weakening Creative Link Between Words and Ideas in the AI Era and the Value of Thinking "Outside the Bots"
Adam Greene, Georgetown University April 7, 2026
Gaze as a Window into the Mind: Semantic Drivers of Gaze in Natural Environments
Caroline Robertson, Dartmouth College, October 7, 2025
Firelight, neural entrainment, and the origins of storytelling
Nate Dominy, Dartmouth College, October 28, 2025
Making better decisions by learning from others: How, why and when?
Fiery Cushman, Harvard University, November 4, 2025
How People Think About Possible Options
Jonathan Phillips, Dartmouth College, May 27, 2025
Early Language Learning in the Lab and in the World
Elika Bergelson, Harvard University, May 15, 2025
The Narrative Mind
Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University Bloomington, May 9, 2022
Can LLMs be models of cognition?
Roman Feiman, Brown University, May 6, 2025
Attribution, belief formation, and self-fulfilling prophecies
Tor Wager, Dartmouth College, April 22, 2025
Initial signs of learning: Decoding newly learned vocabulary from neural patterns
in novice sign language learners
Megan Hillis, Dartmouth College, April 15, 2025
A transformation of sensory information in the brain
Emily Cooper, University of California, Berkeley, April 1, 2025
Explaining Efficiency in Social Cognition and Causal Reasoning
Dae Houlihan, Dartmouth College, October 29, 2024
Explaining Efficiency in Social Cognition and Causal Reasoning
Steven Shin, Stanford University of Medicine, October 8, 2024
Are there laws of thought?
Steven Frankland, Dartmouth College, October 1, 2024
Scalar implicature: domain-generality or domain-specificity?
Caleb Kendrick, Dartmouth College, September 24, 2024
Suffering: A Neurofunctional Account
Colin Allen, University of Pittsburgh, February 1, 2022
How the west became the weirdest people in the world?
Joseph Henrich, Harvard University, October 5, 2021
Why do clustered and distributed representations of visual categories in human ventral temporal cortex (VTC) have a consistent cortical topography across people?
Kalanit Grill-Spector, Stanford University, February 3, 2020
Good Answers
Joint work with Kevin Dorst
Matthew Mandelkern, University of Oxford, January 14, 2020
Moral Cognition for the Greater Good: Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning and Epistemic Cooperation
Joshua Greene, Harvard University, October 15, 2019
Developmental and Evolutionary Foundations of the Human Mathematical Mind
Elizabeth Brannon, January 24, 2019
Explanation: The Good, The Bad And The Beautiful
Tania Lombrozo, April 4, 2019
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Origins, Issues, Impact
Barbara Partee, April 12, 2018
World knowledge and formal aspects of sentence processing: exploring the boundaries
Asad Sayeed, January 20, 2017
Saving Memes from Extinction
Daniel Dennett, February 16, 2017
Moral empiricism: a rational learning approach to moral judgement
Shaun B. Nichols, April 6, 2017
Do Non-Linguistics Creatures Have Fodorian (Logic-Like/Language Like) Language of Thought
Susan Carey, April 28, 2017
Constraints and Flexibility during Vocal Development
Asif Ghanzanfa, October 5, 2017
Episodic Memory, Time, and Agency
Carl Craver, December 8, 2017
Why is this so hard? : Ideologies of Endangerment, Passive Language Learning Approaches, and Ojibwe in the United States
Mary Hermes, January 26, 2015
The Role of Representation in the Mind/Brain
Alfonzo Caramazza, February 11, 2016
Investigating Abstraction: Lessons from Letters
Brenda Rapp, March 4, 2016
Experiments in Musical Intelligence
David Cope, April 27, 2016
Why is this so hard? : Ideologies of Endangerment, Passive Language Learning Approaches, and Ojibwe in the United States
Mary Hermes, January 26, 2015
The Role of Representation in the Mind/Brain
Alfonzo Caramazza, February 11, 2016
Investigating Abstraction: Lessons from Letters
Brenda Rapp, March 4, 2016
Experiments in Musical Intelligence
David Cope, April 27, 2016