Cognitive and Brain Sciences Seminar Series - Spring 2009
Students can take the Cognitive Science Seminar for credit. Title: 237A. Cognitive Science Graduate Seminar. (1 unit) Attendance at colloquia is the only requirement. Instructor: Ivry, Richard. 5101 Tolman Hall
Seminar listings for other semesters:
Fall 2003 Spring 2004 Fall 2004 Spring 2005
Fall 2005
Spring 2006
Fall 2006
Spring 2007
Fall 2007
Spring 2008
Fall 2008
Spring 2009
Fall 2009
Seminar: 1/23 - Daniel Levitin
11:00 to 12:30 PM at: 5101 Tolman Hall
Department of Psychology, McGill University
"Mental Representations of Music"
Seminar: 2/6 - "Darwin in Mind: Evolution in the Cognitive Sciences"
2:30 to 5:30 PM at: Heyns Room, Faculty Club
A half-day symposium on evolution in the cognitive sciences, with speakers from across campus, a photo tour of the Galapagos Islands, and birthday cake to celebrate Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of "On the Origin of Species".
Seminar: 2/13 - Adam Kendon
11:00 to 12:30 PM at: 5101 Tolman Hall
Independent Scholar and Visiting Scholar
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania'
"When is an action a 'gesture'? Recognizing 'semantic intent' in bodily movmement."
Seminar: 3/6 - Edward Vogel
11:00 to 12:30 PM at: 5101 Tolman Hall
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
"Individual differences in resisting attentional capture."
Seminar: 3/20 - Jack Nitschke
11:00 to 12:30 PM at: Tolman 5101
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin
"The expectant brain and anxiety disorders."
Seminar: 3/30 - Robert Port
4:00 to 5:30 PM at: 182 Dwinelle Hall
University of Indiana
Special Seminar, co-hosted with Dept. of Linguistics
"Rich linguistic memory shows language must be a social object, not psychological"
Seminar: 4/3 - Bob Rehder
11:00 to 12:30 PM at: Tolman 5101
Department of Psychology, New York University
"A Generative Model of Conceptual Representation."
Seminar: 4/17 - Mathew Walker
11:00 to 12:30 PM at: Tolman 5101
Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
"Sleeping as a process of thinking."
Seminar: 4/24 - Ken Kendler
11:00 to 12:30 PM at: Tolman 5101
Virginia Commonwealth University
"Psychiatric Genetics: A Current Perspective".
Seminar: 6/22 - Alan Baddeley
3:00 to 4:30 PM at: Tolman 5101
Department of Psychology, York University
"What's New in Working Memory?"
NOTE: MONDAY SPECIAL