ABL Seminar

Talks take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm, in Room 313 at the UCL Psychology Department (26 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AP).

Below you can see a list of speakers we have coming up in our seminar series this term. Some speakers for this term will be joining us online. Please note that, unfortunately, we cannot accept an online audience.

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Date	Speaker	Title

Thursday 12th January	Jennifer Logg (UC Berkeley)	Theory of Machine: When do people rely on algorithms?

Thursday 19th January	Michael Sanders (Behavioural Insights Team)	Social contagion and social licensing in charitable giving and beyond

Thursday 26th January	Cleotilde Gonzalez* (Carnegie Mellon University)	Adaptation to Change

Thursday 2nd February	Erin Rich* (UC Berkeley)	Dynamic encoding of choice in the orbitofrontal cortex

Thursday 9th February	Emilio Ferrara* (University of South Carolina)	Human behavior in techno-social systems

Thursday 16th February		No Affective Brain Seminar

Thursday 23rd February	Alex Peysakhovich* (Facebook Artificial Intelligence)	Fixing the Replication Crisis with Machine Learning

Thursday 2nd March	Pablo Barberá* (University of South California)	How Social Media Reduces Mass Political Polarization

Thursday 9th March	Alexandra Constantinescu (Oxford University)	Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a grid-like code

Thursday 16th March	Kiyohito Iigaya (University College London)	Favouring Savouring: How Prediction Error Boosts Appetitive Anticipation

Thursday 23rd March	Sonia Bishop (UC Berkeley)	TBC

Thursday 27th April	Hal Hershfield* (University of California, Los Angeles)	When does the present end and the future begin?

Thursday 4th May	Jane Wang (Deep Mind)	TBC

Thursday 11th May	Kenway Louie* (New York University)	Reward statistics, adaptive value coding, and efficient choice behavior

Thursday 18th May	TBC	TBC

Thursday 25th May	Corey White* (Syracuse University)	TBC

Thursday 1st June	Birte Forstmann* (University of Amsterdam)	TBC

*Speaker is joining us online

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Previous Talks

Michaelmas Term 2016

Date	Speaker	Title

Thursday 6th October	Louisa Egan (University of Portland)	Moral Licensing Effects as Acquired Behavior

Thursday 13th October	Christian Ruff (University of Zurich)	Social decision making: Distinct causal brain mechanisms

Thursday 20th October	Anna Schapiro (Harvard)	Complementary learning systems within the hippocampus: A neural network modeling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning

Thursday 27th October	Amit Sharma (Microsoft Research)	The limits of social influence in online social networks

Thursday 3rd November	Keith Chen (UCLA, Uber)	Flexible Work: How Drivers Respond to Dynamic Pricing and Work Flexibility on the Uber Platform

Thursday 17th November	Justin Rao (Microsoft Research)	Understanding Charitable Giving Choices

Thursday 24th November	No Seminar

Thursday 1st December	Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)	The Spread of Misinformation in Social Media

Thursday 8th December	Daniel Bennett (University of Melbourne)	The intrinsic value of information in decision making

Thursday 15th December	Jessica Bodford (Facebook & Arizona State)	Cyberpsychology: Human interaction in the digital age