Carnegie Mellon University

The NI New Faculty Showcase took place on September 17, 2020 as a webinar hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience Institute. Our newest faculty members gave talks about their work. Recordings of the talks have been posted here with permission of the speakers.

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Welcoming Remarks by Barb Shinn-Cunningham, Director, Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute

Brad Mahon, Associate Professor of Psychology, CMU 

From understanding to prediction in translational cognitive neuroscience

Abby Noyce, Department of Psychology, CMU    

Brain Networks for Visual and auditory cognition

Kate Hong, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences & Neuroscience Institute, CMU

What does Barrel Cortex do?

Doug Weber, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Neuroscience Institute, CMU

Engineering Neural Prostheses to Recover or Replace Sensorimotor Functions

Bonnie Nozari, Associate Professor of Psychology, CMU

From Thoughts to Sounds and Letters: The Challenges of Expressing Ideas through Language

Jessica Cantlon, Ronald J. and Mary Ann Zdrojkowski Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, Associate Professor of Psychology, CMU

Evolution, Development, and Cultural Origins of Logic

Matt Smith, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience Institute, CMU


A Global Neural Signature Reflects an Internal Cognitive State

Recording unavailable.