Time: Mondays 12:30 P.M.

Location: 200C Schermerhorn

Theme: A forum for discussing research on cognitive topics, including perception, reasoning, memory, language, movement, and AI.

Contact: Please send comments or questions to Gin Morgan

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Fall 2005

September 12

• No Meeting

September 19

• No Meeting

September 26

• Alan Baddeley
• Q&A
  

October 3

• Tobias Egner
• Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information

October 10

• Stephen Monsell
• Associative learning and task-switching

October 17

• Chris Summerfield
• The sources of source memory: cognitive control during episodic memory formation

October 24

• Tor Wager
• Expectations and individual differences in cognitive and affective control

October 31

• Clancy Blair
• Measurement of Executive Function in Young Children: Progress, Prospects, and Pandemonium

November 07

• No Meeting (Academic Holiday)
  

November 14

• No Meeting (Society for Neuroscience Conference)
  

November 21

• Ed Smith
• Can Medial-Temporal-Lobe Patients Learn A Category Implicity?

November 28

• Jennifer Manly
• Measurement and analytic challenges in assessment of literacy and cognition among Spanish and English-speaking elders

December 5

• Veronica Hinton
• Selective cognitive deficits associated with a distinct genetic disorder: Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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Spring 2006

January 23

• Amir Raz (Columbia Medical)
  
• Attention, Suggestion, and Conflict Resolution in the Human Brain

January 30

• Barbara Tversky
• Connecting Event Understanding and Action Learning
  

February 6

• No meeting
  

February 13

• Jason Mitchell
• Neural mechanisms of social cognition
  

February 20

• No Meeting

February 27

• Julian Hochberg
• Putting the big picture together: For brain and mind, and for science and technology (but not philosophy)

March 06

• Dolores Malaspina
• It's not just their genes and/or your childhood: How (and why) sperm, oocytes, and the intrauterine environment control lifelong gene expression
  

March 13

• No Meeting (Spring Break)
  

March 20

• Paul Sajda
• Single-trial neuroimaging for identifying neural correlates of trial-to-trial behavioral variability
  

March 27

• Aaron Kozbelt
• Creativity over the lifespan in classical composers: Reconciling expertise and Darwinian perspectives
  

April 03

• Bill Hirst (New School)
• Topic: TBA
  

April 10

• No meeting (Cognitive Neuroscience Conference)
  

April 17

• Masters Thesis Talks
  

April 24

• Masters Thesis Talks