Psychology

Department


Harvard

University


Welcome to the CBB Colloquium Series

The CBB Colloquia, sponsored by the Cognition, Brain, and Behavior program in the Psychology department at Harvard University, is a weekly colloquium series featuring undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral students in the program, with occasional guests from outside the program.

All the talks, unless otherwise noted, are on Friday afternoons in room 765 of William James Hall and start promptly at 4 pm. Refreshments will be served in the common area on the seventh floor starting at 3:45. The talks last for one hour, with time for questions. If you have any questions or suggestions, email Alex Holcombe.

Schedule of Talks for 1998-9

Date Speaker Title
September 25 William Hayward Examining the role of outline shape in depth-rotated object recognition.
October 30 MJ Wraga Updating scenes from different views: Object- vs. self- rotation
November 6 Pepper Williams Object category constancy: Recognizing novel exemplars of object classes
November 13 Susan Hespos Physical reasoning in infancy
December 11 Marc Albert What the Generic Viewpoint Assumption (GVA) Tells Us About Occlusion, Perceptual Transparency, and Illusory Contours
January 29 Chad Dodson TBA
February 26 Fred Mast Spatial reference frames and the role of gravitational cues
April 2 Jack Loomis TBA (talk presented jointly by the Harvard Vision Sciences Lab)


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