Psychology
Department
Harvard
University
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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
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| 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
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| 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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