cognition at the shore

ucsd la jolla shores

Once per quarter we meet to share a meal and hear informal talks about research from all research areas in the department.

Please join us for our Fa25 Cognition at the Shore evening seminar on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025, from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM at the the Public Engagement Building (PEB 721).

RSVP Form: Google Form

Speakers:

Ollie D'Amico: The Most Underrated Technology
Irene Hou: The Social harms of genAI
Dr. Sarah Chang: Thalamic and Striatal Functional Connectivity Using Precision Functional Mapping in Children
Simon Fei: Monkey Perceptogram: reconstructing visual percept and presumptive neural preference from macaque multi-array

Spring 2025

Monica Shen: Language Science Needs Network Science
Christian Cazares: A trainee-informed model for undergraduate neuroscience research programs serving marginalized students
Dillan Cellier: Scientific Approaches to Death

Winter 2025

Yueying Dong: Flexible gaze reinstatement during working memory for natural scenes
Sam Taylor: Solving for X in X-Risk: Aligning Intuitions Regarding the Existential Risk Posed by AI
Ryan Hammonds: Neuro Vision-Language Models
Annapurna Vadaparty: Achievement Goals in CS1 LLM

Fall 2024

Sarah Creel: Evidence for Secret Kid Language
Simon Fei: Reconstructing Vision from EEG
Stephan Kaufhold & Jack Terwilliger: Machiavellian Machinations of Macaque Movement
Matt Beaudouin-Lafon: A history of the arrow as a graphical convention

Spring 2024

Rob Loughman: Parkinson's Disease and Brain Iron Accumulation
Allessandro "Ollie" D/Amico: Games
Kyle Shannon
Pam Riviere: Mono- and Multilingual LLM Representations of Ambiguous Spanish Words in Context
Ana Chkhaidze: Visualizing the Invisible: Visual Imagery Shaes Pseudo-Hallucinatory Experiences

Winter 2024

Peiling Jiang: How can we construct intelligent personal information interfaces with active information units?
Sydney Smith: Investigating the Neural Mechanisms of Auditory Predictive Timing
Jack Terwilliger: Mind if I walk here? How passersby navigate proxemic boundaries and invisible walls in public spaces
Vikram Singh: How monkeys really see the world - Freely moving eye tracking in common marmosets
Dillan Celier: What do people believe about their beliefs?

Fall 2023

Drew Walker: Turing Jest: Do LLMs Have a Sense of Humor?
Cameron Jones: Does GPT-4 pass the Turing Test?
Akshay Nagarajan: Time, Place, and Transcendence in Music and Song
Vijay Veerabadran: Pondering ANNs generalize to unseen difficulty levels of visual reasoning
Hui Xin Ng: Tōjisha-kenkyū

Winter 2023

Garrison (Gary) Cottrell: The Model 2.0: An Anatomically-inspired Model of the Primate Visual System
Sana Ali: Now I Know My ABCD: A Global Resource Hub for Researchers using the ABCD Study

Spring 2020

Eran Mukamel: How many cell types are in the brain?
Shuai Tang: Distributed Representations & Symbolic Computing
Arthur Semenuks: Linguistic diversity: variation, constrains and importance
Federico Rossano: Social cognition in young children: an urban vs. rural comparison

Winter 2019

Virginia de Sa: Explorations of EEG data in recognition memory experiments
Tricia Ngoon & Ailie Fraser: Replay: Contextually Presenting Learning Videos Across Applications
Carson Miller Rigoli: Cultural Evolution for Language and Music: Benefits and Hurdles
Ben Bergen: The Emergence of a New System of Linguistic Metaphors for Time

Fall 2018

Scott Cole: A quantitative analysis of San Diego's burritos"
Alexander Johnson: Place versus places: The subiculum spatial codes for structural similarities between paths
Weiqi Zhao: Understanding the influence of brain phenotypes on reading variability
Robert Loughnan: Predicting post-stroke language recovery from clinical CT scans
Tom Donoghue: Parameterizing Neural Power Spectra