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

Compositional category building with language models
Alina Dracheva, Dartmouth College, November 5, 2024

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

Semantic network centrality captures the key concepts for successful
understanding of a lecture
Yeongji Lee, Dartmouth College, May 21, 2024

Building a Shared Conceptual Space
Arjen Stolk, Dartmouth College, May 14, 2024

Prosody meets common sense: how do we express and interpret scope ambiguity?
Valentina Apresyan, Dartmouth College, May 7, 2024

The structure of attention and working memory
Viola Stormer, Dartmouth College, April 30, 2024

How does the human brain represent abstract mental relations?
Silvia Bunge , University of California, Berkeley, April 23, 2024

Reasoning with visual imagery: Research at the intersection
of autism, AI, and visual thinking
Maithilee Kunda, School of Informatics, University of Ediburgh, April 16, 2024

How do our thoughts take shape?
Jeremy Manning, Dartmouth College, April 4, 2024

Getting to the ‘root’ of morphological processing: Arabic as a window to syntax
Samantha Wray, Dartmouth College, April 2, 2024

Modal Cognition Across Species
Catherine Holland, Dartmouth College, September 23, 2023

Domain-general modal cognition
Jonathan Phillips, Dartmouth College, September 19, 2023

A computational framework for modeling human emotion understanding
Dae Houlihan, Dartmouth College, September 26, 2023

Being Superwoman : Stress Disclosure & Support-Seeking Behaviors of Black Pregnant Women Online
Darley Sackitey, Georgia Technology Institute, October 3, 2023

Cross-Modal Learning for Video Understanding
Sou Young Jin,  Dartmouth College, October 10, 2023

Pain, its function, and why it matters
Tina Rosenqvist,  Dartmouth College, October 17, 2023

May the force be with you
Valentine Hacquard, University of Maryland, University of Maryland, October 24, 2023

Discomfort (and beliefs about) in Race Talk
Kiara Sanchez, Dartmouth College, October 31, 2023

No Coincidence, George: Strong Capacity-Limits are the Curse of Compositionality
Steven Frankland, Dartmouth College, November 7, 2023

Social perception, individual differences
Emily Finn, Dartmouth College, May 23, 2023

Clinical neuroscience
Ali Mazaheri, University of Birmingham, May 16, 2023

Autobiographical memory, individual differences, aging
Peng Peng, University of Texas, Austin, May 2, 2023

Temporal experience, perception of duration
John Kulvicki, Dartmouth College, April 25, 2023

Memory, time, personhood
Carl Craver, Washington University, St. Louis, April 18, 2023

Sign language, development
Jenny Singleton, Stony Brook University, April 11, 2023

Robotics, artificial intelligence, decision making
Alberto Quattrini Li, Dartmouth College, April 4, 2023

Suffering: A Neurofunctional Account
Colin Allen, University of Pittsburgh, February 1, 2022

Learning Memory
Jeremy Manning, Dartmouth College, November 8, 2022

Imagination, spontaneous cognition
Jessica Andrews-Hanna, University of Arizona, November 1, 2022

Natural language processing, intelligent systems
Sarah Masud Preum, Dartmouth College, October 25, 2022

Cognitive control, sensory interaction with higher order functions
Taraz Lee, University of Michigan, October 18, 2022

Learning, semantics
Megan Hillis, Dartmouth College, October 11, 2022

Language
Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, New York University, October 4, 2022

Emotion regulation
Michael Sun, Dartmouth College, September 27, 2022

Biases, face processing, emotions
Chujun Li, Dartmouth College, September 20, 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