
APRIL 23–26 • 2022
CNS 2022 | Young Investigator Award Lectures
Congratulations to Oriel FeldmanHall and Vishnu Murty for being awarded the 2022 Young Investigator Award. We look forward to hearing their award lectures at CNS 2022!
About the YIA Award
The purpose of the Young Investigator Award is to recognize outstanding contributions by scientists early in their career. Two awardees are named by the Awards Committee, and are honored at the CNS Annual meeting.
Navigating our Uncertain Social Worlds
Oriel FeldmanHall
Brown University
Monday, April 25, 2022, 1:30 - 2:00PM (PT), Grand Ballroom A
04/25/2022 1:30 PM
04/25/2022 2:00 PM
America/Los_Angeles
CNS 2022 | YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD LECTURE 2: NAVIGATING OUR UNCERTAIN SOCIAL WORLDS
Grand Ballroom A
The Young Investigator Award Lectures will be held in person at the CNS 2022 Annual Meeting in San Francisco at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Hotel, located at 5 Embarcadero Ctr, San Francisco, CA 94111.
Interacting with others is one of the most inherently uncertain acts we embark on. There are a multitude of unknowns, including how to express ourselves, who to confide in, or whether to engage in risky behavior with our peers. All this uncertainty makes successfully navigating the social world a tremendous challenge. Combining behavioral and neuroscientific methods, we explore the social and emotional factors that shape and ultimately guide how humans learn to make adaptive decisions amongst this great uncertainty. In particular, we borrow models from the animal learning literature, and methods from computational neuroscience and machine learning, to examine how humans experience, process, and resolve this uncertainty to make more adaptive decisions.
Goal States Tailor the Content and Structure of Episodic Memory
Vishnu "Deepu" Murty
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Temple University
Monday, April 25, 2022, 2:00 - 2:30PM (PT), Grand Ballroom A
04/25/2022 2:00 PM
04/25/2022 2:30 PM
America/Los_Angeles
CNS 2022 | YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD LECTURE 2: GOAL STATES TAILOR THE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF EPISODIC MEMORY
Grand Ballroom A
The Young Investigator Award Lectures will be held in person at the CNS 2022 Annual Meeting in San Francisco at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Hotel, located at 5 Embarcadero Ctr, San Francisco, CA 94111.
Memories are not veridical representations of the environment; rather individuals’ goals and desires shape how and what they store in long-term memory. This type of memory selectivity is sub-served by engagement of different neuromodulatory systems—such as the VTA and LC, responding to salient cues in the environment—which initiate a sequela of events leading to different memory outcomes. My research program focuses on characterizing how different motivational states bias encoding towards discrete learning systems and further propagate memory transformation via systems-consolidation. In this talk, I will highlight recent work characterizing how different goal states—namely exploration and threat—influence long-term memory. Specifically, I will highlight behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational modelling approaches to detail how exploration leads to highly associative, causal representations of the environment, whereas threat leads to sensory-based representations capturing the most salient features of the environment in the absence of contextual details. I will further show how memory encoding under these different goal states may contribute to maladaptive behaviors related to risk for developing psychosis and PTSD, respectively. I will end this talk with effusive commentary about the support of the wonderful community of cognitive neuroscientist that have supported these efforts.
Previous Winners
2021Anne Collins, UC Berkeley |
2020Catherine Hartley, New York University |
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2019Muireann Irish, The University of Sydney, Australia |
2018Morgan Barense, University of Toronto |
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2017Leah Somerville, Ph.D., Harvard University |
2016Adriana Galvan, UCLA |
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2015Donna Rose Addis, Ph.D., University of Auckland, NZ |
2014Daphna Shohamy, Ph.D. , Columbia University |
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2013Uta Noppeney, Ph.D., University of Birmingham, UK |
2012Adam Aron, Ph.D., University of California San Diego Roshan Cools, Ph.D., Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour |
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2011Michael J. Frank, Ph.D., Brown University |
2010Kara Federmeier, University of Illinois |
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2009Lila Davachi, New York University |
2008Charan Ranganath, University of California Davis |
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2007Silvia A. Bunge, University of California |
2006Frank Tong, Vanderbilt University |
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2005Sabine Kastner, Princeton University |
2004Anthony Wagner, Stanford University |
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2003Roberto Cabeza, Duke University |
2002Isabel Gauthier, Vanderbilt University |