Friday Noon Colloquium Series
2004
Fall Semester
September 24Michael Weisberg, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Who is a modeler?
October 1
Bart Rypma, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
Neural mechanisms of individual differences in working memory: Effects of age and processing speed
October 8
Peter Carruthers, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland
Distinctively human thinking in a massively modular mind
October 15
Tandy Warnow, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas
Phylogenetic reconstruction in linguistics
October 22
Peter Gordon, Department of Biobehavioral Science, Teachers College, Columbia University
The incompleteness of language and cognition: The case of Pirahã number
October 29
Michael Kahana, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Oscillatory Correlates of Human Memory Function
November 5
Laurie Santos, Department of Psychology, Yale University
The evolution of theory of mind abilities: how Rhesus monkeys reason about the minds of others
November 12
Leonard Talmy, Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, SUNY
How Spoken and Signed Language Structure Space Differently: a Neural Model
November 19
Christopher Manning, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
Refocusing on Linguistic Representations
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December 3
Carol Colby, Department of Neuroscience and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Corollary discharge and spatial updating: When the Brain is split, is space still unified?
December 10
Joshua Gold, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Multiple roles of experience in decoding the neural representation of sensory stimuli
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2004
Spring Semester
January 23Amishi Jha, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
What is the Work in Working Memory? fMRI Investigations of the Prefrontal Cortex
January 30
Naftali Tishby, School of Computer Science and Engineering
and Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation,
Hebrew University, Israel
Scaling of Information in Human Language
February 6
Justine Cassell, Psychology Department, Northwestern University
Co-authoring, Corroborating, Criticizing: Collaborative Storytelling between Virtual and Real Children
February 13
Mark Liberman, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
Mining the Bibliome: Information Extraction from the Biomedical Literature
February 20 - Pinkel Lecture
Ray Jackendoff, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University
Lecture Title: Toward a Cognitive Science of Culture and Society
February 27
Turhan Canli, Department of Psychology, SUNY at Stonybrook
Brain Mapping of Personality
March 5
Barry Schwartz, Swarthmore College, Department of Psychology
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
March 19
Frank Tong, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
Seeing, Perceiving, Recognizing, and Imagining in the Human Brain
March 26
John McWhorter, Linguistics Department,
University of California at Berkeley
The Effect of Suboptimal Transmission Upon Natural Language Grammars
April 2
Alan Gelperin, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Olfaction ABCs: Artificial, Biological and Computational
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April 9
Sheila Blumstein, Departments of Biology and Neurology, Brown University
IRCS Short Term Visitor
Neural Systems Underlying Speech and Lexical Processing
April 16
Mike Martin, Philosophy Department, University of College London
I Only Have Eyes For You: The Metaphysics of Joint Attention
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April 23
Lenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University
Transforming the Culture of Computing: The Carnegie Mellon Experience
This talk will be held in the Wu & Chen Auditorium in Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut Street
Click here to see past Colloquium Series (archived thru 2001).
