I-LABS Roundtable Research Seminars

"The Basal Ganglia Interpret Abstract Representations of Cognitive Actions"
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Stocco, Research Scientist, (Cortical and Cognitive Dynamics Lab, University of Washington)

"Mothers Enhance Infants’ 2D-3D Transfer of Learning: The Role of Emotional Responsiveness and Maternal Structuring"
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Zack, Postdoctoral Fellow, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"The Role of Social Interaction in Infants' Second Language Acquisition"
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Roseberry, Postdoctoral Fellow, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Developmental Changes in Cortical Rhythms to Native and Non-Native Phonetic Contrasts"
Speaker: Dr. Alexis Bosseler, Postdoctoral Fellow, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Could Experience in Music Facilitate Learning Lexical Tone Categories?"
Speaker: Christina Zhao, Doctoral Student, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington)

"Why and How to Use M/EEG Recording in Auditory Neuroscience Research” and “Engaging the Oculomotor System Through Auditory Attention"
Speaker: Dr. Adrian K. C. Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington)

"Social Cues for Language Learning"
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Roseberry, Postdoctoral Fellow, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Parallel Visual Pathways: Their Functional Roles and Clinical Implications"
Speaker: Shozo Tobimatsu M.D., Ph.D (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kyushu University School of Medicine, Japan)

"Spatial and Causal Reasoning in Animals and Children"
Speaker: Dr. Anna Waismeyer, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Native and Non-native Speech-Evoked Responses in High-Risk Infant Siblings"
Speaker: Dr. Cherie Percaccio, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"What Bilinguals Hear as a Function of Language Context"
Speaker: Dr. Adrian Garcia-Sierra, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Under What Conditions Do Young Children Attribute Normativity to Novel Actions?"
Speaker: Marco Schmidt, Doctoral Student (Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

"Native and Non-Native Speech-Evoked Responses in High-Risk Infant Siblings"
Speaker: Dr. Cherie Percaccio, Postdoctoral Fellow, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Can infants learn language from interactive TV: First steps"
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Nash, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Memory Organization for Complex Human Action"
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Loucks, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Special Speech Registers: Talking to Infants, Pets, Hearing Impaired, Foreigners, and Computers"
Speaker: Dr. Denis Burnham, (University of Western Sydney)

"The Role of Functional Categories in First Language Acquisition: Uncovering Early Grammatical Knowledge in Infants"
Speaker: Dr. Yarden Kedar, (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

"From Transient Goals to Enduring Preferences: The Development of Understanding Goal-Directed Action in Infancy"
Speaker: Emily Blumenthal, Doctoral Student, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Can 15-Month-Olds Use Visual-Perceptual Cues to Predict Another Person’s Emotions? and Pretend Play and Executive Function" in Preschool Children"
Speaker: Tamara Spiewak Toub, Doctoral Student, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Lexical Tone Perception and Production: The Role of Language and Musical Background"
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Nash, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Gesture Gives a Hand to Speech: Evidence for an Integrated System in Production and Comprehension"
Speaker: Dr. Spencer Kelly (Department of Psychology, Colgate University)

"Future Thinking in Young Children"
Speaker: Dr. Christina Atance (School of Psychology, Univerity of Ottawa)

"The Extended Self: Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral Consequences of Group Identity"
Speaker: Dr. Cheryl Kaiser (Department of Psychology, University of Washington)

"Language as Kluge"
Speaker: Dr. Gary Marcus (Department of Psychology, New York University)

"Early and Long-Term Effects of Child-Care Quantity, Quality, and Type on Children's Development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development"
Speaker: Dr. Cathryn Booth-LaForce, Professor of Family and Child Nursing (University of Washington)

"Remaking Speech Revisited: STRAIGHT and TANDEM-STRAIGHT and their Implications"
Speaker: Dr. Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University, Japan)

"Social Routes to Language: Growth Curve Modeling of Vocabulary Growth Based on Previous Preverbal Gaze Following and Pointing"
Speaker: Dr. Rechele Brooks, Research Scientist (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"14-Month-Olds Know What Others Know Only in Joint Attention"
Speaker: Dr. Henrike Moll, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Science, University of Washington)

"Language Control and Executive Control in Bilinguals"
Speaker: Dr. Yapeng Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"The Influence of Parental Language Input across Socio-Economic Classes on the Neurological Development of Broca's Area in Five Year Old Children"
Speaker: Sonali Bhagat, Doctoral Student (Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington)

"Infants' Understanding of What Others See and Know"
Speaker: Dr. Henrike Moll, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Culture, Language, and Personality"
Speaker: Dr. Nairan Ramirez-Esparza, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Picky Imitators: Prior Experiences of Self and Other Influence Children's Imitation"
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Williamson, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Environmental Enrichment Increases Response Strength and Paired-Pulse Depression of Auditory Cortex Neurons"
Speaker: Dr. Cherie Percaccio, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Preference for Referential Eye Gaze in 9-months-old Infants"
Speaker: Dr. Atsushi Senju, Research Fellow (Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, London)

"Evaluating Oscillatory Dynamics in Development Disorders"
Speaker: Dr. Mike Murias, Postdoctoral Fellow (Autism Center, University of Washington)

"Perspective Taking in Infancy"
Speaker: Dr. Henrike Moll, Postdoctoral Fellow (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)

"Children's Evaluation of Everyday Thinking Strategies: An Outcome-to-Process Shift"
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Amsterlaw, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"The Scope of Preschoolers' Generalization of Others' Preferences"
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Williamson, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"McGurk Illusion Obtained from MRI Movie Stimuli"
Speaker: Dr. Waka Fujisaki, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"A Longitudinal Investigation of the Link between Infant Social Cognition and Preschool Behavior: A work in progress"
Speaker: Berit Olsen-Martin, Graduate Student (Department of Psychology, University of Washington)

"From Explicit Judgments about Morality to Implicit Bias: The Journey Traveled"
Speaker: Dr. Melanie Killen, (Developmental Intergroup Social Cognition, University of California, Berkeley)

"Educators' Metacognitive Engagement of Theory of Mind around Issues of Cultural Capital for Sustaining Achievement Motivation of Immigrant Students: How Can I Most Effectively Project How I Want My Students to See Me as their Educator?"
Speaker: Eric Hamilton, Doctoral Student (College of Education, University of Washington)

"Neurocognitive One-minute Assessment of Speech Comprehension: Applications of M-Sequence Modulation and Independent Component Analysis to Electroencephalography"
Speaker: Dr. Hiroshige Takeichi (RIKEN (Industrial Cooperation, Nishina Center; Advanced Brain Signal Processing, BSI) and Intelligent Modeling Laboratory, University of Tokyo, Japan)

"Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Children's Developing Understanding of Mind"
Speaker: Dr. David Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Statistical Learning Frameworks for Automatic and Human Speech Processing"
Speaker: Dr. Katrin Kirchoff (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington)

"When Preschoolers and Adults Fail to Ignore Privileged Information"
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Bernstein (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)

"The Bilingual Development of Korean-Chinese in China and the Perception of Syllable Structure on Korean and Chinese in Korean-Chinese and Chinese Students"
Speaker: Dr. Hyewon Park Choi (University of Ulsan, South Korea)

"Effect of Treatment on Functional MRI of Dyslexia: Orthographical, Phonological, and Morphological Processing and Brain Mapping of Language"
Speaker: Dr. Todd Richards (Department of Radiology, University of Washington)

"Acquisition of American English vowels: Effects of first language and number of training vowels"
Speaker: Dr. Kanae Nishi (Department of Speech and Hearin g Sciences, Indiana University and Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska)

"Recalibration of Audio-Visual Simultaneity and Audio-Visual Temporal Synchrony Perception"
Speaker: Dr. Waka Fujisaki, Visiting Researcher (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington and NTT, Japan)

"Socioeconomic Status Predicts Hemispheric Specialization of Broca's Area in Young Children"
Speaker: Dr. Raj Raizada, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Origins and Early Development of Human Body Knowledge"
Speaker: Dr. Virginia Slaughter (School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia)

"Acquisition at the Prosody-Morphology Interface"
Speaker: Dr. Katherine Demuth (Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University)

"Examining the Relations among Cortisol Responses, Family Risk, Parenting, and Child Adjustment"
Speaker: Dr. Anika Trancik, Doctoral Student (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"From Learning Words to Reading Words in Finnish: Findings of Longitudinal Studies"
Speaker: Dr. Maarit Silven, Visiting Researcher, Docent in Developmental and Educational Psychology, (University of Turku and Helsinki)

"Role of Language Experience in Infants’ Discrimination of Male and Female Voice"
Speaker: Dr. Megha Sundara, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Infants' Understanding of Others' Actions: The role of prior information"
Speaker: Catharyn Crane, Doctoral Student (Department of Psychology, University of Washington)

"Deferred Imitation in Human Infants"
Speaker: Emily Blumenthal, Graduate Student (Department of Psychology and Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Vocal Function, Learning, and Mimicry in Dolphins"
Speaker: Guenevere Jones (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)

"Building Profiles of Bilingual Speakers: The production and perception of VOT and high vowels in Canadian English and Canadian French"
Speaker: Andrea Macleod, Doctoral Student (Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington)

"Understanding Auditory-Visual Speech Perception Through Masking"
Speaker: Alexis Bosseler, Doctoral Student, (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"American Sign Language: Infant directed signing vs. adult directed signing"
Speaker: Lindsay Klarman (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Reading Acquisition and Reading Disorders: Does East meet West?"
Speaker: Dr. Prema Kandaka Subba Rao, Fulbright Scholar (All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, India)

"Proposal for an ERP Study of Children and Adults' Desire-Reasoning and Belief-Reasoning"
Speaker: Dr. David Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"Home Signs and New Sign Languages: What they teach us about input conditions for human languages"
Speaker: Dr. Carol Padden, Professor (University of California, San Diego)

"Systematic False Memories for Missing Aspects of Events"
Speaker: Matthew Gerrie, Doctoral Student (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

"They're Not Just Copy Cats: Preschooler's flexible use of imitation"
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Williamson, Postdoctoral Fellow (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"ERP Research on Lexical Processing by Adults"
Speaker: Dr. Albert Kim (Department of Psychology, University of Washington)

"A Proposal for Examining the Relations Among Family Risk, L-HPA Activity, Parenting, and Children's Adjustment"
Speaker: Dr. Anika Trancik (Department of Psychology, University of Washington)

"Children's Abilities and Limitations in Reasoning About What Others Know"
Speaker: Susan Birch (University of British Columbia)

"Spatial and Causal Reasoning in Animals and Children"
Speaker: Dr. Christine Moon (Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington)

"Perception to Production: The Cross-Modal Link"
Speaker: Alexis Bosseler (Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington)

"SRCD Practice Talks"

"A Proposal for Examining the Role of Parenting on the Relations Among Environmental Risk Factors and Cortisol Measures"
Speaker: Dr. Anika Trancik (Department of Psychology, University of Washington)

"Social Referencing in Infants"
Speaker: Caroline Yoachim

"The Development of Children's Causal Inference"
Speaker: David Sobel (Brown University)

"fMRI and Theory of Mind"
Speaker: Rebecca Saxe (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Guest Lecture
Speaker: Ghislaine Dehaene (Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics, EHESS and CNRS, Paris)

Guest Lecture
Speaker: Tomas Paus (Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada)