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Upcoming Events

  1. Dec 12 BNS Seminar - Prof Qiaojie Xiong4:00pm

    BNS Seminar - Prof Qiaojie Xiong

    Thursday, December 12th, 2019

    04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

    Storrs Campus
    BOUS 160

    BNS Seminar - Prof Qiaojie Xiong
    Dr. Qiaojie Xiong (Stony Brook University)

    TITLE: Integration of the auditory and spatial information in an auditory decision

    ABSTRACT: Sensory processing, such as audition, guides daily behaviors, including decision-making—the flexible transformation of information from the outside world into planned action. How our brains integrate sensory information and transform it to proper motor actions is of great interest in my laboratory. In general, sensory stimuli are processed through ascending sensory systems, and motor actions are planned and executed through descending motor systems. How the sensory and motor systems exchange information to produce accurate sensory-guided action is complex and remains largely elusive. The dorsal striatum has emerged as a key player in sensory-guided, reward-driven decisions. A posterior sub-region of the dorsal striatum, the auditory striatum, receives convergent projections from both auditory cortex and thalamus. One project in my laboratory is to examine how auditory striatum integrate auditory information from thalamic and cortical inputs in mouse performing an auditory frequency discrimination task. Many sensory-guided behaviors require navigating to goal locations. How the neural circuit associates sensory decisions to goal locations remains largely unknown. The dentate gyrus is critical for spatial discrimination, which makes it a potential brain substrate for linking sensory decisions to spatial navigation. Here we develop an auditory-cued navigation-required task to investigate how dentate granule cells of hippocampus link the auditory decision to spatial navigation.

    Contact Information: Ian Stevenson

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  2. Feb 12 Lecture: Introduction to Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) 10:00am

    Lecture: Introduction to Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS)

    Wednesday, February 12th, 2020

    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Storrs Campus
    BIRC Conference Room (PCSB 141)

    Assis Prof Roeland Hancock, Associate Director of BIRC, will introduce the basic principles of MRS, followed by a discussion of common acquisition methods for measuring metabolites of potential interest in the context of cognitive neuroscience, quality control strategies, preprocessing steps, and limitations. For more information including registration, please visit https://birc.uconn.edu/events/birc-lectures-and-workshops/

    Contact Information: BIRC Coordinator: Navita Choudhary, 540-250-2548, birc@uconn.edu

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  3. Feb 26 Psychology Colloquium: Dr. Dan Swingley3:30pm

    Psychology Colloquium: Dr. Dan Swingley

    Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Storrs Campus
    Bousfield A106

    Dr. Dan Swingley from the Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania will be presenting his work.

    Contact Information: Shu Jiang shu.2.jiang@uconn.edu

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  4. Mar 4 Clinical Research Seminar: Frank Buono, Yale School of Medicine12:30pm

    Clinical Research Seminar: Frank Buono, Yale School of Medicine

    Wednesday, March 4th, 2020

    12:30 PM - 01:25 PM

    Storrs Campus
    BOUS 160

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    Contact Information: Inge-Marie Eigsti, inge-marie.eigsti@uconn.edu

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  5. Mar 4 Psychology Colloquium: Dr. Vic Ferreira3:30pm

    Psychology Colloquium: Dr. Vic Ferreira

    Wednesday, March 4th, 2020

    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Storrs Campus
    Bousfield A106

    Dr. Vic Ferreira, from the Department of Psychology, UC San Diego will be presenting his work.

    Contact Information: Shu Jiang shu.2.jiang@uconn.edu

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The University of Connecticut is a top-20 public university in the U.S. The Department of Psychological Sciences is routinely ranked in top 10 in U.S. grant funding and its doctoral program is ranked in top 30 public research universities by The National Research Council.

Psychological sciences is one of the largest major at UConn with about 1,500 undergraduate students (1,100 at Storrs and 400 distributed across the regional campuses) at any given time. With so many students, the psychological sciences department is also one of the largest departments at UConn with over 50 faculty and a large team of administrative staff.

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Psychological Sciences Department
Bousfield Psychology Building
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: 860-486-3515
Fax: 860-486-2760
Email: psychology@uconn.edu

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Phone: 860-486-2642
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