Talks & Presentations

Workshop talks & presentations

• Invited speaker, Neuroethics & the Future of Reality, Princeton NJ, June 2023 Website
• Invited panelist, The Attention Workshop: Bridging different perspectives on attention, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), New Orleans LA, Dec. 2022 Website
• Invited speaker, Multivariate pattern analyses of EEG data, SwissMemDecoder, University of Geneva & University of Zurich, Switzerland (virtual), Feb. 2021
• Leveraging cognitive dynamics for real-time triggering: From causality to enhancement - different methods for different goals, Real-time Functional Imaging and Neurofeedback, Maastricht, Netherlands, Dec. 2019
• Closing the loop: Tracking cognitive states in real time - A Critical Examination of Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, Mar. 2019

Seminars & colloquia

• University of California San Francisco, Neuroscape Center, San Francisco CA, Apr. 2023
• Stanford University, Department of Psychology, Stanford CA, Nov. 2022
• Microsoft Research Lab, NYC NY, June 2022
• Northeastern University, Center for Cognitive and Brain health, Boston MA (virtual), Mar. 2022
• University of Maryland, Department of Psychology, College Park MD (virtual), Feb. 2022
• Virginia Tech, Department of Psychology, Blacksburg VA (virtual), Feb. 2022
• Tulane University, Department of Psychology, New Orleans LA , Feb. 2022
• Vanderbilt University, Biomedical Engineering & Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Nashville TN, Feb. 2022
• Queen’s University, Department of Psychology, Kingston ON (virtual), Jan. 2022
• Florida State University, Department of Psychology, Tallahassee Florida (virtual), Jan. 2022
• Purdue University, Department of Psychological Sciences, Cognitive Colloquium, West Lafayette IN (virtual), Sept. 2021
• Sabanci University, Department of Psychology, Istanbul Turkey (virtual), May 2021
• Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment & Human Factors, Department of Ergonomics, Dortmund Germany (virtual), May 2021
• University of California Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Cognitive Forum, Los Angeles CA (virtual), Feb. 2021}
• University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, Toronto ON (virtual), Feb. 2021
• Brown University, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Cognitive Seminar,Providence RI (virtual), Jan. 2021
• University of California San Diego, Sensation and Perception Series, San Diego CA (virtual), Jan. 2021
• University of California Santa Barbara, Cognition, Perception & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar, Santa Barbara CA (virtual), Dec. 2020
• Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Pittsburgh PA, Feb. 2020
• University of British Columbia, Cognition area workshop, Vancouver CA, Oct. 2019
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Cognitive brown bag, Champaign IL, Oct. 2019
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, May 2019
• University of Chicago Medicine, Department of Neurology: Epilepsy, Chicago IL, Nov. 2017
• Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, New Brunswick NJ, Feb. 2016
• University of California Davis, Memory Group Meeting, Davis CA, Dec. 2015
• National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, Apr. 2015

Conference talks

• Hakim N, deBettencourt MT, Padmanaban M, Xie T, Vogel EK, Awh E, Warnke. Single unit recordings in the human brain track sustained attention dynamics. Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2022
• deBettencourt MT, Vogel EK, Awh E. Multifaceted fluctuations of attention determine long-term memory, Psychonomics Society, Austin, TX (virtual), Nov. 2020
• Keene PA , deBettencourt MT, Awh E, Vogel EK. Real-time pupil triggering disentangles sustained attention from working memory. Object Perception, Attention \& Memory conference, Austin, TX (virtual), Nov. 2020
• deBettencourt MT, Keene PA , Awh E, Vogel EK. Fluctuations of attention and working memory. Psychonomics Society, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 2019
• deBettencourt MT, Keene PA , Awh E, Vogel EK. Concurrent fluctuations of attention and working memory. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, Oct. 2019
• deBettencourt MT, Keene PA , Awh E, Vogel EK. Real-time triggering reveals sustained attention and working memory lapse together. Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2019
• deBettencourt MT, Awh E, Vogel EK. Long-term consequences of working memory load. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2018
• deBettencourt MT, Williams SD , Awh E, Vogel EK. Manipulating attention influences memory encoding. Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, May 2018
• deBettencourt MT, Norman KA, Turk-Browne NB. Lapses of sustained attention cause later forgetting in visual long-term memory. Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2016
• deBettencourt MT, Turk-Browne NB, Norman KA. Using real-time fMRI neurofeedback to manipulate mental context. Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, May 2015
• deBettencourt MT, Cohen JD, Lee RF, Norman KA, Turk-Browne NB. Training sustained attention using real-time fMRI in healthy individuals. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies conference Philadelphia PA, Nov. 2014
• deBettencourt MT, Cohen JD, Lee RF, Norman KA, Turk-Browne NB. Closed-loop training of sustained attention with real-time fMRI neurofeedback. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2013

Conference presentations

• Pruin J, Bainbridge WA, Rosenberg MD, deBettencourt MT. Memory augmentation with adaptive cognitive interfaces. Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. May 2023
• Turoman N, Agbesi Fiave P, Zahnd C, deBettencourt M, Vergauwe E. Can we decode school‐aged children’s working memory contents? Our proof‐of‐concept study suggests so. Flux Society, Paris, France. Sept. 2022
• Trach JE, Burde J, deBettencourt MT, Radulescu A, McDougle S. Reward prediction error modulates sustained attention. Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision making (RLDM), Providence, RI. June 2022
• deBettencourt MT, Hakim N, Padmanaban M, Xie T, Vogel EK, Awh E, Warnke P. Direct recordings of sustained attentional state from the human brain. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL. Oct 2021
• Wakeland‐Hart CD, deBettencourt MT, Cao S, Bainbridge WA, Rosenberg MD. Building a comprehensive model of visual memory from images and individuals. Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL (virtual). May 2021
• Wakeland‐Hart CD, deBettencourt MT, Bainbridge WA, Rosenberg MD. Predicting memory from individual attentional state and image memorability. Object Perception, Attention & Memory conference (virtual). Nov 2020
• deBettencourt MT, Vogel EK, Awh E. Distinct temporal dynamics of sustained and spatial attention. Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, FL (virtual). May 2020
• Mennen A, Turk‐Brown NB, Seok D, deBettencourt MT, Norman K, Sheline Y. Using closed‐loop neurofeedback to help depressed patients escape negative states. Society of Biological Psychiatry, New York, NY (canceled). Apr. 2020
• Hakim N, deBettencourt MT, Awh E, Vogel EK, Warnke P. Examining sustained attention with subcortical recordings. Single Units and Human iEEG Conference, Birmingham UK (canceled). Apr. 2020
• Keene PA, deBettencourt MT, Awh E, Vogel EK. Pupillary signatures of attention and working memory fluctuations. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL. Oct. 2019
• deBettencourt MT, Keene PA, Awh E, Vogel EK. Monitoring fluctuations of attention in real time to influence memory. Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA. May 2019
• deBettencourt MT, Keene PA, Awh E, Vogel EK. Real‐time triggering reveals that sustained attention and working memory lapse together. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Mar. 2019