Department of Psychology Faculty Lecture
I briefly review the five broad domains (O-C-E-A-N) that define the Big Five model of personality traits and explain why they have emerged as the dominant model. In contrast to earlier views that personality is "set like plaster," our findings show substantial evidence of change,...
The Tryon lecture
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The genetics of song learning and language
Knowledge * Sleep * Awe
Join us for a celebration of the history and future of Berkeley Psychology featuring lightning talks from distinguished faculty members and hands-on demonstrations showcasing some of the leading research in psychological science today. World-renowned Berkeley Psychology faculty members Celeste...
Department of Psychology's Annual Equity and Inclusion Lecture
Solving Big Problems
As part of our ongoing series of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Psychology Department at UC Berkeley, we are delighted to showcase three of our faculty and their research Professors Robert Knight, Sheri Johnson, and Jason Okonofua. The cutting-edge research of each of these...
Wandering in brain and mind: how neural dynamics give rise to spontaneous cognition
Humans spend up to half of daily waking life engaged in mind-wandering, or inner experiences that are untethered to the immediate sensory environment. How do these experiences arise from the brains rich, dynamic patterns of spontaneous activity? In this talk, I will describe our recent...
Pervasive Neglect of Females in Biomedical Research: Is a New Day Dawning?
Mapping the Brain
Join the Psychology Department as we celebrate our 100th Anniversary.
All of human experience - our perceptions, thoughts, feelings, desires, plans and actions - reflect the coordinated activity of a complex network of hundreds of distinct areas and modules within the brain. Disorders of...
Science at Cal - Language Development Across Communities and Cultures
In this talk, Dr. Mahesh Srinivasan will present recent work from his lab that challenges two broad claims within the field of developmental science: First, that there are optimal methods for speaking to ones child; and second, that parents from lower socioeconomic-status backgrounds...
Language Disorders Across The Life Span
The Primary Progressive Aphasias (PPA) are a collection of clinical syndromes caused by early-onset neurodegenerative disorders that affect specific speech and language networks in the brain. In this talk, I will describe the cognitive, neuroimaging and neuropathological features of this...