coggroup November 2017

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[Coggroup] CRAM Session: Friday, December 1
by Mehrgol Tiv 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

Dear all, Dr. Sarah Racine (McGill Psychology) will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, December 1, 11:30-12:25 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College). Please note that the talk will commence earlier than usual due to the staff meeting at 12:30 PM. Her talk is titled, "Emotion Regulation and Eating Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Perspective " For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! The full speaker list can be found here<https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series>. ———————————————————— Emotion Regulation and Eating Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Perspective Sarah E. Racine, McGill Psychology Eating disorders are serious psychiatric illnesses that are associated with excess morbidity and mortality as well as high costs to society. A better understanding of risk and maintenance factors that are both shared across psychiatric disorders and that are unique to eating disorders and their component symptoms can help advance prevention and treatment. My program of research aims to: 1) elucidate the biobehavioural mechanisms that underlie transdiagnostic risk factors and their relation to eating disorders, and 2) identify symptom-specific disease processes that influence the expression of psychopathology in the context of transdiagnostic risk factors. In this talk, I will review a series of studies using multiple methodologies (i.e., prospective longitudinal designs, behaviour genetic methods, psychophysiology paradigms) to consider emotion regulation as a key transdiagnostic process involved in the etiology and maintenance of eating disorders. I also will present findings indicating that eating disorder-specific risk factors (e.g., sociocultural appearance pressures) interact with emotion regulation to lead to eating disorder symptoms, but not symptoms of other psychiatric disorders. Finally, I will discuss future research directions that relate to expanding this transdiagnostic framework to include other forms of psychopathology and that will inform the development of mechanistically-based treatments. ___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com>

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[Coggroup] CRAM Session: Friday, November 17
by Mehrgol Tiv 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Dear all, Dr. Nida Latif, a postdoctoral fellow working with Professor Jelena Ristic, will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, November 17, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College). Her talk is titled, "Something in the way we move: Movement coordination during conversational interaction" For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! The full speaker list can be found here<https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series>. ———————————————————— Something in the way we move: Movement coordination during conversational interaction Nida Latif, McGill Psychology When we engage in conversations with others, we tend to coordinate our behaviour with our partner across many domains: we start using similar words, align our speaking rate and pitch and coordinate our overall conversational movements such as our facial expressions, postures and gestures. It has been suggested that such coordination of our behaviour comprises a specialized mechanism that is needed to manage the rich complexity inherent to conversational interactions. In this talk, I will specifically focus on the coordination of conversational movement between social partners. I will present previous work where I used a novel movement quantification technique to demonstrate that social factors, such as the affiliation between talkers, influence the amount of movement coordination that is present during a conversation. Further, I will show that the perception of such coordinated behaviour might facilitate the important decisions we constantly make as we navigate our social world. Finally, I will present some ongoing work that is investigating how movement coordination may be used as an indicator of conversational quality, potentially allowing us to track and maintain the success of our everyday communication. ___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com>

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[Coggroup] CRAM Session: Friday, November 10
by Mehrgol Tiv 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

Dear all, Dr. Rosemary Bagot (McGill Psychology) will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, November 10, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College). Her talk is titled, "Neural circuits of resilience and susceptibility” For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! The full speaker list can be found here<https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series>. —————————————————— Alterations in nucleus accumbens (NAc) activity have been linked to the pathophysiology of depression. Previous findings implicate alterations in nucleus accumbens circuits in susceptibility and resilience after chronic social defeat stress in mice. However whether such changes are cause or consequence of observed behavioural alterations is not known. Using in vivo fibre photometry, we identify pre-existing phenotypic differences that associate with response to subsequent social defeat stress. These findings point to a possible underlying mechanism of stress-induced susceptibility and suggest the potential to predict at-risk individuals prior to encountering stress. ___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com>

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[Coggroup] CRAM Session: Friday, November 3
by Mehrgol Tiv 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Dear all, Dr. Mathieu Roy (McGill Psychology) will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, November 3, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College). His talk is titled, "Pain’s impact on attention, learning, and decision-making" For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! The full speaker list can be found here<https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series>. —————————————————— Pain’s impact on attention, learning, and decision-making Mathieu Roy, McGill Psychology Pain signals the presence of an urgent threat of injury; it calls for our complete attention and commands immediate action. Moreover, pain also marks an error in the long chain of decisions that ultimately led to it, and therefore compels us to reassess our future actions. Pain’s effects thus resonate far beyond the immediate painful experience: anticipation of future pain based on past painful experiences influences our current decisions, mood, and pain sensitivity. In this presentation, I will present the results of recent experiments we have conducted on pain’s behavioral function (attention, learning, and decision-making). ___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com>

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[Coggroup] Special talk on Bilingual Reading, Professor Anat Prior, Friday, 3:30-5, 2001 McGill College Ave, room 735
by dtitone 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Dear colleagues, Please see the following link for a special talk on Bilingual Reading by Professor Anat Prior (University of Haifa), **this coming Friday** at 3:30-5pm, at 2001 McGill College Ave., Room 735.. The title and abstract for Professor Prior's talk are at the following link. http://crblm.ca/invited-speaker-anat-prior-university-of-haifa/ If you are interested in meeting with Professor Prior, please contact me. There will likely be a graduate student lunch with her at 1 pm on Friday, and dinner Friday evening. Space will be limited in both, but let me know if you are interested by the end of the day. Best, Debra Titone —— Debra Titone, Ph.D. Professor Graduate Program Director Department of Psychology McGill University 514-398-1778 dtitone(a)psych.mcgill.ca

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