Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
University of California at Berkeley
132 Barker Hall MC 3190
Berkeley, CA 94720
Administration support for the Institute is provided by the staff of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. See the administration page for help and information, or call (510) 642-2593.
Events
Seminar: Myrna Schwartz
5/16 11:00 to 12:30 PM at: 5101 Tolman Hall
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Philadelphia, PA
"Competition, Interference, and Cognitive Control in Picture Naming".
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Seminar: Mick Rugg: Delayed until Fall Semester
9/22 11:00 to 12:30 PM at: 5101 Tolman Hall
Center for the Neurobiology or Learning and Memory
UC Irvine
"Episodic memory encoding and retrieval: a cognitive neuroscience perspective"
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News
4/29/2008
Archived Files from past ICBS Seminars and Workshops
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4/28/2008
Paul Kay joins discussion in NY Times on how language influences thought
Science Times article discusses new views on an old debate.
4/13/2008
Art Shimamura awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellowship to support his efforts on a new book taking a neurocognitive approach to the psychology of art and aesthetics.
1/7/2008
A Personal Experience with Synesthesia
Sherri Roush discusses how sounds make her skin tingle-- literally.
1/2/2008
Conference on Religion and Cognitive Science, Jan 16-18
Hosted by The Graduate Theological Union and the Cognitive Science Program at UC Berkeley
11/26/2007
George Lakoff to receive inaugural Giulio Preti Prize
The Regional Council of Tuscany honors Lakoff's contributions in the study of Science and Democracy.
6/14/2007
Exploring Beauty
Steve Palmer discusses the science of aesthetics in a presentation at Google.
6/12/2007
Updated web materials for Jerry Feldman's book, 'From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language'.
Check out recent Updates, Teaching Tips, and a Readers' Roadmap- a remarkable graphical guide to each chapter produced by John Torous, a recent student in CogSci 110 at Berkeley.
7/2/2006
Looking back into the future.
Eve Sweetser's cross-cultural research on how we speak about time.
1/20/2006
How do People Make Predictions?
New ICBS Member Tom Griffiths puts Bayes rule to the test
12/28/2005
Linguistic Modulation of Color Perception Differs for the Left and Right Cerebral Hemispheres.
ICBS members Kay and Ivry use neuropsychological methods to revisit the Whorf hypothesis
3/23/2005
Alva Noe brings the brain and body together in his new book.
Conversation with Alva Noe on the just published, "Action in Perception"
1/12/2005
LEONARDO review of recent Synesthesia Conference co-hosted by ICBS
Review of the The Fourth Annual National Conference of the American Synesthesia Association, Inc.
1/10/2005
"What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It?"
ICBS member Alison Gopnik and other scientists consider unsolvable problems
6/14/2004
George Lakoff of Linguistics and ICBS on the Language of Politics
UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics.