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Fri May 02, 2008 Aniruddh D. Patel, Esther J. Burnham Fellow, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA; TITLE: Empirical comparative studies of language and music: rhythm and syntax
Fri April 25, 2008 Suzanna Becker, Ph.D., Dept. of Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, TITLE: What Spatial Memories Are Made of: Understanding the Neural Basis of Spatial Representations for Mental Imagery and Navigation
Fri April 18, 2008 Thomas Griffiths, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and the Cognitive Science Program, University of California-Berkeley; TITLE: Analyzing Cultural Evolution by Iterated Learning
Fri April 11, 2008 Holly Branigan, Ph.D., Language, Cognition and Communication, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, TITLE—Yellow Flowers and Cats That Are Blue: Syntactic Processing in Young Children's Language Production
Fri April 04, 2008 Victor Ferreira, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, TITLE: What Speakers Do and Don't Do to Successfully Communicate
Fri March 28, 2008 CANCELLED
Fri March 21, 2008 Spring Break, no seminar
Fri March 14, 2008 No seminar scheduled
Fri March 07, 2008 Elena Plante, Professor and Department Head, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences; TITLE: Learning in the Context of Language Impairment
Fri February 29, 2008 Elizabeth Marsh, Asst. Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, TITLE: Illusions of Knowledge
Fri February 22, 2008 Barbara Sarnecka, Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences, University of California-Irvine, TITLE: Number words and number concepts (or) How human beings create new representational resources
Fri February 15, 2008 LouAnn Gerken meets with Cognitive Science Graduate Students
Fri February 08, 2008 Jesse Prinz, John J. Rogers Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, TITLE: How Do Emotions Relate to Morality? A Review of Competing Models
Fri February 01, 2008 Thomas D. Albright, Professor and Director, Vision Center Laboratory, Salk Institute, TITLE: In Your Mind's Eye: Neural Bases of Associative Memory and Pictorial Recall
Fri January 25, 2008 Laurie R. Santos, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Yale University, TITLE--The Evolution of Social Cognition: Insights From Non-Human Primates
Fri January 18, 2008 Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair & Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
Fri November 30, 2007 Elizabeth Murray, PH.D., Chief of the Section on the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at NIMH, TITLE: What, if anything, is the medial temporal lobe, and is it a declarative memory module?
Thu November 29, 2007 James T. Higginbotham, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Philosophy, University of Southern California
Fri November 23, 2007 Thanksgiving Break, no seminar
Fri November 16, 2007 Karin Stromswold, Prof., Dept. of Psychology & Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, TITLE: Genetics and the Structure and Acquisition of Language
Thu November 15, 2007 Richard Samuels, Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University
Thu November 15, 2007 Karin Stromswold, MD, PhD -The Genetic Specificity of Linguistic Heritability: Clues and Complexities
Fri November 09, 2007 Merrill F. Garrett & Robert M. Harnish; TITLE-- Impliciture: Skating Along the Syntactic Verge
Thu November 08, 2007 Terry Horgan, Professor, and John Pollock, Regents Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona
Fri November 02, 2007 Almut Hupbach, Ph.D. Psychology; TITLE: Reconsolidation of Human Episodic Memories
Thu November 01, 2007 The Fourth Round Table “On Language and Minds: The New Science of Biopsycholinguistics”, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (Cognitive Science), Simin Karimi (Linguistics), Andrew Barss (Linguistics), Christopher Maloney (Philosophy)
Fri October 26, 2007 Kobus Barnard, Asst. Prof., Computer Science; TITLE: Learning Models of Structure
Thu October 25, 2007 Alan Sanfey, Assistant Professor, Neural Decision Science
Fri October 19, 2007 Frank Tong, Assoc. Prof., Psychology, Vanderbilt University, TITLE--Decoding Visual Perception: From Brain Reading to Mind Reading
Thu October 18, 2007 Anna Dornhaus, Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Fri October 12, 2007 Emily Murphy, Ph.D., Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, TITLE: The Neuroethics of Punishment
Thu October 11, 2007 Alfred W. Kaszniak, Head and Professor, Psychology
Fri October 05, 2007 Jerome Busemeyer, Professor, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, TITLE: Integrating Sophisticated Choice Models with Basic Learning Processes to More Fully Account for Complex Choice Behavior
Thu October 04, 2007 Mary A. Peterson, Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Areas: Cognition and Neural Systems, Visual Perception and Cognition
Fri September 28, 2007 Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Professor, Cognitive Science
Thu September 27, 2007 The Third Round Table 'On Language and Minds: The New Science of Biopsycholinguistics', Fernando Martinez (Biomedical Science), Donata Vercelli (Functional Genomics), Massimo Piattellli-Palmarini (CogSci), Linda L. Restifo (Neurobiology)
Fri September 21, 2007 Mark Walker, Department Head and Professor, Department of Economics, University of Arizona
Thu September 20, 2007 Terry Connolly, Professor, Management and Policy
Fri September 14, 2007 Kenneth Forster (Professor, Psychology) with Xiaomei Qiao, Naoko Witzel, Xin Wang, Chang-Ching Chen (SLAT graduate students)
Thu September 13, 2007 Sandiway Fong, Associate Professor, Linguistics and Computer Science
Fri September 07, 2007 Andrew Wedel, Asst. Prof., Linguistics & LouAnn Gerken, Director, Cognitive Science
Thu September 06, 2007 The Second Round Table 'On Language and Minds: The New Science of Biopsycholinguistics', Cecile McKee (Language Acquisition), LouAnn Gerken (Language Development), Andrew Carnie (Syntax) and Andrew Wedel (Phonology/Morphology)
Fri August 31, 2007 CANCELLED
Thu August 30, 2007 The First Round Table 'On Language and Minds: The New Science of Biopsycholinguistics', Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (Cognitive Science), Thomas G. Bever (Linguistics), Heidi Harley (Linguistics) and Norma Mendoza-Denton (Anthropology)
Thu August 23, 2007 Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Professor, Cognitive Science
Fri April 27, 2007 Lera Boroditsky, Stanford, TITLE: "What Are Thoughts Made of?"
Fri April 20, 2007 Terry Langendoen, NSF; TITLE: Cyberinfrastructure for Cognitive Science
Fri April 13, 2007 Michael Frank, UA Psychology, TITLE: Interactive dynamics of striato-cortical circuits in reinforcement learning and decision making
Fri April 06, 2007 Jean Marc Fellous, UA Psychology & Applied Math; TITLE--Spikes: It's about time!
Fri March 30, 2007 Ben Backus, Penn. TITLE: Inference and learning in the construction of visual appearance
Fri March 23, 2007 Paul Glimcher, NYU, TITLE: The Neurobiological Basis of Decision Making
Fri March 09, 2007 Heidi Harley, UA Linguistics; TITLE: Word Roots, Concepts and the 'Canonical Use Constraint'
Fri March 02, 2007 Brad Love, UT Austin; TITLE: The Emergence of Multiple Learning Systems
Fri February 23, 2007 LouAnn Gerken and Cog Sci graduate students
Fri February 16, 2007 Daphne Maurer, McMaster, TITLE: "Sensitive Periods Re-examined: Evidence from Children treated for Cataract"
Fri February 09, 2007 Elizabeth Loftus, UC Irvine, TITLE: True and False Memories: New Findings
Thu February 08, 2007 Elizabeth Loftus, UC Irvine, TITLE: What's the Matter with Memory
Fri February 02, 2007 Eve V. Clark, Stanford, TITLE: "One vs. More-than-one: Antecedents to Plural Marking in Acquisition"
Fri January 26, 2007 John Allman, Cal Tech, TITLE: "Neurobiology of Intuition"
Fri January 19, 2007 Jean Mandler, UCSD. Title: "The spatial foundations of the conceptual system"
Fri January 12, 2007 Peter Culicover, OSU, Title: "Syntactic nuts, the core-periphery distinction, and UG"
Fri December 01, 2006 Andrew Lotto, UA SPLH, Context Effects in Speech Perception
Fri November 17, 2006 Bruce Hayes, UCLA, A Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning
Fri November 03, 2006 CANCELLED
Fri October 27, 2006 Rafael Nunez, UCSD, From the Lab to the Andes and Back: The Empirical Study of Spatial Construals of Time
Fri October 20, 2006 Shaun Nichols, UA Philosophy, Moral Responsibility and Determinism: Investigating Folk Intuitions
Fri October 13, 2006 Karen Emmorey, SDSU, Speaking Versus Signing: How the Biology of Linguistic Expression Affects Language Processing
Fri October 06, 2006 Marc Hauser, Harvard, The evolution of the language faculty
Thu October 05, 2006 Marc Hauser, Harvard, How Nature Designed a Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
Fri September 29, 2006 Morten Christensen, Cornell, Sound Advice in Language Acquisition and Processing: The Importance of Phonology in the Acquisition and Processing of Syntax
Fri September 22, 2006 Kay Mathiesen, UA SIRLS, How Groups Think: Varieties of Collective Cognition
Fri September 22, 2006 PHIL Colloquium 3PM: Joshua Greene (Harvard, Psychology)
Fri September 15, 2006 Anna Dornhaus, UA EEB, Collective versus individual problem-solving: the example of social insects
Fri September 08, 2006 Beginning of year party
Fri April 14, 2006 Electrophysiological Approaches to Second Language Learning and Bilingualism
Fri March 31, 2006 Babies and Bayes Nets: Mechanisms of Theory-formation in Young Children
Fri March 24, 2006 Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning
Fri March 10, 2006 Spatial representation in the mind/brain: Do we need a global topographical map?
Fri March 03, 2006 What Do We Mean When We Say Modularity?
Fri February 24, 2006 Varieties of learning in hippocampal place cells
Sat February 18, 2006 LouAnn Gerken meets with Cognitive Science PhD minors
Fri February 10, 2006 Learning and Transfer in Infants' Perceptual and Motor Skills
Fri February 03, 2006 Object processing in the human occipito-temporal cortex
Fri January 27, 2006 Statistical learning across domains, species, and development: What are the constraints?
Fri January 20, 2006 Explanation in Neuroscience: Some Lessons from Hodgkin and Huxley
Fri January 13, 2006 Science Writing in Cognitive Science