Department Events

Alyssa Moore will lead a journal club style presentation of the attached paper, entitled "The transition to cocaine addiction: the importance of pharmacokinetics for preclinical models" Kawa et al. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2019 Feb 28. doi: 10.1007/s00213-019-5164-0 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-019-5164-0

Who: Emily Blakley When: Wednesday March 27, 2019 at noon Where: Richardson Lounge (S4, 224) The Global Precedence Effect (GPE) describes a visual phenomenon in which adults are biased to perceive the global or holistic aspect of an image first before processing local information. Developmental research shows evidence of a local bias during early childhood that becomes global with age, through research disagrees on when this occurs. Findings suggest that experimental factors such as task and stimuli manipulations may lead to these differing conclusions. The current study investigates the GPE in 4-year-olds, and investigates whether an instructional manipulation can influence the emergence of the effect. Four-year-olds were shown pairs of global shapes made up of local shapes. Pairs could be identical, or differ on either the global or local level. During Phase I, children were verbally asked if image pairs were “exactly the same in every way” or “different in any way”. In Phase II, in addition to the verbal prompts, children were shown a visual instructional sequence that explained what “exactly the same” or “different in any way” meant with regards to the local and global differences.

Elyse Stewart, M.S.

Title: "The 6 Ws of Prosocial Behavior" Abstract: During this talk, I will discuss What is prosocial behavior, Who is likely to do it and Whom are they likely to do it to, When are they likely to do it, Why are they likely to do it, and How to we conceptualize it in the lab and the field.

Jonathan Rothermel, Esq., Senior Assistant Broome County Public Defender

2019 Mario and Antoinette Romano Lecture "Recycled Honors: The Reuse and Redisplay of Honorific Portrait Statues in Pompeii" Presented by: Brenda Longfellow, associate professor, University of Iowa School of Art and Art History 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Binghamton University Art Museum (Reception to follow) Discussions of the reuse of Roman honorific statues have primarily focused on examples of so-called damnatio memoriae, where the image of a condemned emperor or elite is reworked into that of someone else, with the goal of erasing the memory of the former. Sometimes the act of censure is easily recognizable and publicly exhibited. In the imperial cult temple at Misenum, for instance, the full and youthful face of a bronze equestrian statue of the emperor Domitian was cut away and replaced with the pinched and aging face of his successor, Nerva. But in other cases, labeling the statue as an example of so-called damnatio memoriae obscures the possible motivations behind its reuse. Longfellow's talk focuses on three examples of reused portrait statues in Pompeii that at first glance might all be classified as examples of so-called damnatio memoriae. By examining the repurposed statues within their local Pompeian contexts, this presentation considers the effects of obviously modified statues incorporated into spaces where they may have been seen by the same people who knew them in their original states, and who probably recognized either the original honorand or the subsequent one, at least by reputation. RSVP: Contact Tracey Greene at tgreene@binghamton.edu by March 25. Sponsored by Mario and Antoinette Romano Endowment, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office, Art History Department and Binghamton University Art Museum.

Hermes Yeh, Ph.D., Dartmouth Medical School William H. Brown Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology Mechanisms of neuroplasticity in the developing brain

Craig Polizzi, M.S.

Allison McKinnon, M.S.

Thomas Lyon, Ph.D., JD, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Chair in Law and Psychology, University of Southern California

Aidan Wright, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology Processes and outcomes of adaptive and maladaptive personality

Seigie Butler, M.S.

Area faculty to be named.

Hannah Morton, M.S.

Associate Professor, Psychology UCLA Brain Research Institute