Cognition, Brain, & Behavior Research Seminar
(Psychology 3340. Research Seminar in Cognition, Brain, and Behavior)

 

 

Spring 2008

Feb 7

Gagan Wig (Schacter Lab & Buckner Lab, Harvard Psychology)

From brain to behavior: Dissociating the multiple components that mediate conceptual and perceptual correlates of priming

Feb 14

Elissa Aminoff (Schacter Lab, Harvard Psychology)
Neural underpinnings of contextual associations

Feb 21

Brian Scholl (Department of Psychology, Yale University)

Statistical perception and learning

Feb 28

(No meeting)

Mar 6

Malathi Thothathiri (Snedeker Lab, Harvard Psychology)

Using priming to investigate syntactic processing in adults and young children

Mar 13

Mark Knobel (Caramazza Lab, Harvard Psychology)

Sublexical effect in word production

Mar 20

(No meeting)

Apr 3

Jessica Andrews-Hanna (Buckner Lab, Harvard Psychology)

The brain's default system: Anatomy, function, and consequence of disruption

Apr 10

Andreas Olsson (Department of Psychology, Columbia University)

Learning from and about others: The cognitive neuroscience of social fear learning

Apr 17

Arash Afraz (Vision Lab, Harvard Psychology)

Spatial limits of object perception

Apr 24

Tim O’Donnell (Snedeker Lab, Harvard Psychology)

Structure and re-use in language learning

May 1

Kevin Shapiro (Caramazza Lab, Harvard Psychology)

Parts of speech: Insights into the functional anatomy of lexical processing

 

 

Fall 2007

Sept 27

Paul Whalen (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College)
The case for faces: Functional neuroimaging studies using facial expressions of emotion

Oct 4

Marc Hauser (Harvard Psychology)
Humaniqueness: Why we are not animals!

Oct 11

Joe Moran (Gabrieli Lab, MIT)

Social cognitive neuroscience investigations of Asperger's Syndrome

Oct 18

Katherine Kinzler (Spelke Lab, Harvard Psychology)
The native language of social cognition

Oct 25

Molly Potter (Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT)
Conceptual short term memory for pictures or words

Nov 1

Gergely Csibra (School of Psychology, Birbeck College, University of London)
Natural Pedagogy: Infants are prepared to learn from others

Nov 8

Ansgar Endress (Hauser Lab, Harvard Psychology)
Cognitive constraints in grammar learning

Nov 15

Kalanit Grill-Spector (Department of Psychology, Stanford University)
Plasticity in high level visual cortex: Insights from development and fMRI-adaptation

Nov 29

Talk cancelled: No meeting.

Dec 6

Adriane Seiffert (Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University)
Attention, eye movements and cognitive architecture in object tracking

Dec 13

Tim Vickery (Vision Lab, Harvard Psychology)
The spatial and temporal spread of perceptual grouping



Thursdays, 12:00-1:30pm
William James Hall 765

Interested parties from the Harvard
community are welcome to attend.

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or to subscribe to email reminders.

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