Dear all,
Dr. Meredith Young (McGill Medicine) will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, March 2, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College<https://maps.google.com/?q=2001+McGill+College&entry=gmail&source=g>).
Her talk is titled, “Cognition in Applied Settings: Theories of Categorization and Medical Diagnosis”
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>.
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“Cognition in Applied Settings: Theories of Categorization and Medical Diagnosis”
Meredith Young, Center for Medical Education & McGill Department of Medicine
In my work, I apply theories of categorization and concept formation to understand how medical trainees learn to diagnose patients and choose management strategies. Providing a diagnosis could be considered analogous to categorization – the grouping of perceptually different stimuli (or different forms of disease presentation) into the same category for the purpose of use (diagnosis or treatment choice). I will present a few studies investigating the role of familiarity in the diagnostic decisions of novices, with the goal of facilitating a discussion regarding the applicability and use of theories of cognition, memory, decision-making, perception, and performance in applied settings such as medicine.
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Mehrgol Tiv
Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University
Language and Multilingualism Lab
*mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com>
Dear all,
Dr. Nathan Spreng (McGill Neurology & Neurosurgery) will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, February 23, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College<https://maps.google.com/?q=2001+McGill+College&entry=gmail&source=g>).
His talk is titled, “Network Dynamics and Neurocognitive Aging”
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>.
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“Network Dynamics and Neurocognitive Aging”
Nathan Spreng, McGill Neurology & Neurosurgery
Research from my laboratory and others is providing compelling evidence that the trajectory of cognitive aging is closely aligned with changes in the functional network architecture of the brain. In this talk, I will review recent and ongoing work from my laboratory to develop and validate a novel network neuroscience model of cognitive aging. Specifically, I will review recent studies examining the role of large-scale brain networks, and their interactions, in shaping the course of cognitive functioning in older adulthood.
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Mehrgol Tiv
Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University
Language and Multilingualism Lab
*mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com>
Dear all,
Dr. Carl Falk (McGill Psychology) will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, February 16, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College<https://maps.google.com/?q=2001+McGill+College&entry=gmail&source=g>).
His talk is titled, “A Method for Modeling Response Styles on Likert-Type Items”
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>.
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“A Method for Modeling Response Styles on Likert-Type Items”
Carl Falk, McGill Psychology
The use of Likert-type items is pervasive throughout the social and behavioral sciences (e.g., rate your agreement to a statement on a scale from 0 – Disagree to 4 – Agree). However, individuals sometimes perceive and use the scale in different ways. In this talk, I present an item response theory model capable of modeling multiple response styles across multiple constructs of interest. Some features of this model include the ability for researchers to: 1) Flexibly determine how response styles are defined, 2) Test whether modeling particular response styles improves model fit, 3) Obtain scores for participants on the constructs of interest and response styles, and 4) Test for group differences in the response styles or substantive constructs. Comparisons with sum score-based approaches, and recent extensions to multilevel data will be briefly presented. Time permitting, I will also discuss my recent/future work on estimation of flexible item response functions.
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Mehrgol Tiv
Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University
Language and Multilingualism Lab
*mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com>
Dear all,
Dr. Marc Pell (McGill School of Communication Sciences and Disorders) will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, February 9, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College<https://maps.google.com/?q=2001+McGill+College&entry=gmail&source=g>).
His talk is titled, “Communicating emotion and interpersonal stance through tone of voice”
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>.
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"Communicating emotion and interpersonal stance through tone of voice”
Marc Pell, McGill School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
The human voice is a salient channel for communicating emotions. In addition, vocal cues can be instrumental for understanding a speaker’s mental state and their “affective stance” towards the listener during social interactions. In this talk, I will review work that shows how listeners decode emotions from speech, drawing upon acoustic, perceptual, and event-related potential (ERP) data. I will then discuss the more “social” aspects of speech prosody and demonstrate how vocal cues guide inferences about whether to believe a speaker or whether a speaker is being (im)polite towards the listener.
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Mehrgol Tiv
Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University
Language and Multilingualism Lab
*mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com>
