Sep 17    (The talk is canceled due to the speaker's illness.)

            

Oct 15    Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Cognitive & Neural Systems, BU)

  1. Segregating, Selecting, and Remembering Complex Sounds

               

Oct 22    Adena Schachner (Hauser Lab, Harvard Psychology)

               The origins, mechanisms, and social consequences of motor entrainment to music

               

Oct 29     Fiery Cushman (Greene Lab, Harvard Psychology)

  1. Two functions of morality

               

Nov 5      Justin Halberda (Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins)

               An interface between vision, numerical cognition, and word meanings               

Nov 12    Charles Nelson (Harvard Medical School)

  1. The Effects on Early Psychosocial Deprivation on Brain and Cognition

Nov 19    Timothy O'Donnell (Snedeker Lab, Harvard Psychology)

  1. Computation and Reuse in Language: A Bayesian Model of Lexical Learning

               

Dec 3      Jesse Snedeker (Psychology, Harvard University)

  1. TBA

               

  1. Dan Hyde (Spelke Lab, Psychology, Harvard University)

  2. Fenna Krienen (Buckner Lab, Psychology, Harvard University)

  3. James Lee (Pinker Lab, Psychology, Harvard University)

  4. Aude Oliva (Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT)

  5. Ken Nakayama (Psychology, Harvard University)

  6. Steven Sloman (Psychology, Brown University)

  7. Josh Tenenbaum (Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT)

Preview  for Spring 2010

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Sep 24    Lisa Sanders (Psychology, UMASS, Amherst)

  1. Temporally Selective Attention and Speech Perception

Oct 1     James DiCarlo (Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT)

  1. Learning to Untangle Object Identity in the Ventral Visual Stream

Oct 8     Rebecca Saxe (Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT)

                Looking and Leaping: Abstract Representations of Actions and Thoughts

Sep 10    Moshe Bar (MGH, Harvard Medical School)

  1. Predictions in the Cognitive Brain