3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
Conference Room - Room 470
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2012
Spring Semester

January 20
IRCS/SILC Talk Series
David Sobel
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Brown University
Causal reasoning and selective trust as rational inference


January 27
Nicole Rust
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
The neural mechanisms involved in finding objects and switching
between targets


February 3
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Tatyana Sharpee
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute
How information is preserved in neural transmission


February 10
David Poeppel
Department of Psychology
NYU
The structure of speech and the structure of time


February 17
Daniel Lee
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Robot perception, motor control, and planning:
Learning low dimensional representations


February 24
Karen Wynn
Infant Cognition Center
Yale University
Social Judgments in Young Infants: The Good,
the Bad, and the Ugly


March 2
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Alexandre Pouget
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
University of Rochester
Neural basis of probabilistic inferences


March 9
no lecture scheduled - Spring Break


March 16
Brian Scassellati
Department of Computer Science
Yale University
Using Human-Robot Interactions to Study
Human-Human Social Behavior


March 23 - 2pm
14th Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture
Joshua Tenenbaum
Department of Brain and Computer Sciences
MIT
Modeling common-sense reasoning with probabilistic programs


March 30
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Alexei Koulakov
Theoretical Neurobiology Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Is it time for a theory of olfaction?



April 6
no lecture scheduled


April 13
Patricia Cukor-Avila
Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication
University of North Texas
Social structures and the spread of linguistic features



April 20 - CANCELLED
IRCS/SILC Talk Series
Kevin Dunbar
Department of Human Development
University of Maryland

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2011
Fall Semester

September 9
IRCS/SILC Talk Series
Thomas Wolbers
Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems
University of Edinburgh
Dynamic and multimodal representations of space in the human brain


September 16
no talk scheduled


September 23
Konrad Körding
Bayesian Behavior Lab
Northwestern University
Uncertainty and its generalization in motor control


September 30
Roger Levy
Department of Linguistics
University of California, San Diego
Probabilistic Knowledge and Uncertain Input in Rational
Human Sentence Comprehension


October 7
Jennifer Cole
Department of Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstraction and phonetic detail in prosody perception


October 14
Nicholas Humphrey
Emeritus Professor
London School of Economics
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness


October 21
IRCS Faculty Meeting


October 28
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Ken Miller
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
Columbia University
The stabilized supralinear network: A simple cortical circuit
motif explaining contextual and attentional response
modulation, "normalization," and more


November 4
Sarah-Jane Leslie
Department of Philosophy
Princeton University
Generics and Generalization


November 11
IRCS/SILC Talk Series
Kate Jeffery
Institute of Behavioral Neuroscience
University College London
Navigating in a 3D world - is the brain's map
of space actually flat?


November 18
Barbara Landau
Department of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins University
Language and Space: Momentary Interactions


December 2
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Carlos Brody
Princeton Neurosicence Institute
Princeton University
Optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat


December 9
Bill Freeman
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Photographing events over time

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