Friday Noon Colloqium Series
Large Conference Room - Room 470
3401 Walnut Street - Suite 400A
Click here for directions
2006
Fall Semester
September 15
Julia Fischer,
German Primate Center, University of Gottingen
Fast mapping and understanding
of social reference in a domestic dog
September 22
Lisa Son,
Department of Psychology, Barnard College
Taking the hint: Monkeys know when they know not
September 29
Tim Gentner,
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Mechanisms of auditory temporal
pattern recognition
October 6
John Gabrieli,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Development of Memory Systems in the Human Brain
October 13
Gary Marcus,
Department of Psychology, New York University
What is the Language Faculty Made Of?
Evidence from Human Infants and Molecular Biology
October 20
No talk scheduled
October 27
David Lightfoot,
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation
The Birth and Death of Languages
November 3
Luiz Pessoa,
Department of Psychology, Brown University
Emotional perception: The role of visual attention, awareness, and
perceptual decisions
November 10
Charles Yang, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Quantal Effects in Language Learning and Change
November 17
Nava Rubin,
Center for Neural Science, New York University
The neural basis of perceptual bi-stability: evidence
from ambiguous motion displays
December 1
Susan Gelman,
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Essentialism and generic language
December 8
Daniel Koditschek,
Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Programming work
2006
Spring Semester
January 20
Maureen Stone,
Vocal Tract Visualization Lab, University of Maryland
Sounding out the tongue: Using Ultrasound to
image tongue motion
January 27
Geoffrey Pullum, Departments of Linguistics and Humanities,
Univ. of California - Santa Cruz
Abstract: Monkey syntax
Paper: Monkey syntax
February 3
Marisa Carrasco, Departments of Psychology and
Neural Science, New York University
Effects of covert attention on early vision
February 10
Gennaro Chierchia,
Department of Psychology, University of Milan - Bicocca
Substance, Object, and Semantic Variation
February 17
IRCS Short Term Visitor
David Eagleman,
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas
Ten Unsolved Questions of Neuroscience
February 24
Michael Kearns, Department of
Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Behavioral Graph Coloring
March 3
Brian Scholl,
Department of Psychology, Yale University
Perceiving Persisting Objects
March 17 - Pinkel Endowed Lecture Series
Elissa Newport,
Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
How children shape languages: Language acquisition and the
emergence of signed and spoken languages
March 24
Regina Barzilay, Department of Computer Science, MIT
Learning to Model Text Structure
April 7
David Brainard, Department of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania
Understanding the Appearance of Small Spot Colors
April 14
David Copland, School of Health
and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland
Dopaminergic Modulation of Lexical-Semantics
April 21
Horatio Arlo-Costa, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
Indeterminacy and cognitive control in neural models of choice under risk
Click here to see past Colloquium Series (archived thru 2001).
