[WTI-trainee] [ICN] Talk announcement: Dr. Ali Cohen, June 5 at 10:30am

[Erica Busch]

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Thanks!
Erica 

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Dear Colleagues,
We hope you’ll join us on Wednesday, 6/5, at 10:30am for an Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience <http://innovatorsincogneuro.github.io/> seminar given by Dr. Ali Cohen <https://www.aliocohen.com/>, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Emory University.
Motivated learning and memory processes across development
Abstract: The ability to learn from and remember motivationally salient information is essential for an individual to survive and thrive throughout life. Considerable research has focused on emotional reactivity, regulation, and their neural mechanisms during the transitional stage of adolescence. However, fewer studies have examined how emotion and motivation shape how we learn and what we remember from childhood to adulthood. My work aims to characterize how aversive and appetitive motivational inputs influence learning and lasting memories across adolescence. We find that the context in which learning takes place modulates age-related differences in learning from positive and negative outcomes. We also find memory enhancements by both aversive and appetitive motivation across all ages as well as adolescent-specific differences in reward-motivated memory. Neuroimaging results suggest potential developmental differences in the contributions of subcortical and prefrontal cortical brain mechanisms supporting reward-motivated memory. Finally, we provide some initial evidence that developmental differences in reward-related memory formation may have consequences for new learning. Ultimately, this research has the potential to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms through which motivation shapes the memories that drive future behavior from childhood to adulthood.
Zoom link:  https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/92366533850?pwd=T3NNOHJLcDhBekREaFNQV2VkeGpTQT09
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Best regards,
Erica Busch
Omri Raccah
Samuel McDougle
On behalf of the Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience Organizing Committee


About Us:
This seminar series was launched by the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience <https://www.dartmouth.edu/ccn/> here at Dartmouth College. This seminar series is devoted to highlighting innovative advances in cognitive neuroscience. The seminar series also is dedicated to leveraging science as a vehicle for social justice. Through this seminar series we hope to recognize outstanding research conducted by historically underrepresented groups (HURG) in Cognitive Neuroscience and related fields, including women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and individuals/people with disabilities. Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience is a collaboration between Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Harvard University, Columbia University, and Gallaudet University. It is funded by the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College. ASL interpretation is provided for all talks.






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Erica L. Busch
PhD Candidate, Neuroscience
Turk-Browne Lab
Yale University Department of Psychology



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