Fall 2009



Fall 2009
Sep 17 (The talk is canceled due to the speaker's illness.)
Oct 15 Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Cognitive & Neural Systems, BU)
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
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)
The Effects on Early Psychosocial Deprivation on Brain and Cognition
Nov 19 Timothy O'Donnell (Snedeker Lab, Harvard Psychology)
Computation and Reuse in Language: A Bayesian Model of Lexical Learning
Dan Hyde (Spelke Lab, Psychology, Harvard University)
Fenna Krienen (Buckner Lab, Psychology, Harvard University)
James Lee (Pinker Lab, Psychology, Harvard University)
Aude Oliva (Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT)
Ken Nakayama (Psychology, Harvard University)
Steven Sloman (Psychology, Brown University)
Josh Tenenbaum (Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT)
Preview for Spring 2010

Sep 24 Lisa Sanders (Psychology, UMASS, Amherst)
Temporally Selective Attention and Speech Perception
Oct 1 James DiCarlo (Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT)
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)
Predictions in the Cognitive Brain