3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
Conference Room - Room 470
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2009
Fall Semester

September 11
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Rafal Bogacz
Department of Computer Science
Bristol University
Optimal decision making in the cortico-basal-ganglia circuit


September 18
Darko Sarenac
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fractals as a Panacea of Spatial Reasoning?


September 25
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Aude Oliva
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department
MIT
A space-centered approach to scene recognition


October 2
Maryellen MacDonald
Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
University of Wisconsin - Madison
The PDC—Where Language Production, Comprehension, and Acquisition Meet


October 9
Randolf Menzel
Department of Neurobiology
Freie Universität Berlin
Watching a small but intelligent brain as it learns and remembers


October 16
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Misha Tsodkys
Department of Neurobiology
Weizmann Institute of Science
Synaptic theory of working memory


October 23
Danielle McNamara
Department of Psychology
University of Memphis
Working Toward a Writing Pal


October 30
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Stephen Grossberg
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Boston University
How Does a Brain Give Rise to a Mind? From Vision to Cognition


November 13
Nicholas Giudice
Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering
University of Maine
Multimodal processing of spatial information: The intersection of spatial cognition and Neurocognitive Engineering


November 20
Mark Johnson
Professor of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences and Computer Science
Brown University
Learning Rules with Adaptor Grammars


December 4
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Philip Kellman
Department of Psychology
UCLA

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2010
Spring Semester

January 15
Tom Griffiths
Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley


January 22
Diane Litman
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh


January 29
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Alinda Friedman
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta


February 5
Julia Hirschberg
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University


February 12
IRCS/SILC joint talk
David Kemmerer
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University


February 19
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Liam Paninski
Department of Statistics
Columbia University


February 26
Liina Pylkkänen
Department of Linguistics
NYU


March 5
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Pascal Fries
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Radboud University Nijmegen


March 19
Larry Shapiro
Department of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin - Madison


March 26
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Michael Hasselmo
Department of Psychology
Boston University


April 9
TBA


April 16
12th Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture
Patricia Kuhl
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
University of Washington


April 23
Mark Pitt
Department of Psychology
Ohio State University

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