University Seminar on
Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience

Talks for 2005-6.

• September 29, 2005: Jacqueline Gottlieb (Columbia University) -- “An associative attentional controller in monkey posterior parietal cortex”
• October 27, 2005: Betsy Murray (NIH) -- “Role of macaque amygdala and orbital prefrontal cortex in affective processing: Integrating sensory signals to guide response selection.”
• November 10, 2005: Sabine Kastnet (Princeton University) -- "fMRI Studies of Visual Cortex in Behaving Monkeys" (CANCELLED)
• December 1, 2005: Joseph LeDoux (NYU) -- "The Emotional Brain"
• January 26, 2006: Michael Graziano (Princeton University) -- “Associative memory signals in the monkey medial temporal lobe”
• February 16, 2006:Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University) -- "Episodic memory: Cognitive and neural substrates"
• March 23, 2006: TBA
• April 20, 2006: Michael Arbib (University of Southern California) -- “The Objects of Vision”

The following talks were given 2004-5.

• September 23, 2004: Paul Bloom (Yale University) -- "Bodies and Souls"
• October 14, 2004: Ed Smith, Tor Wager Kevin Oshner, Janet Metcalfe, Herb Terrace, Yaakov Stern (Columbia University) -- “Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception, Memory and Emotion” 250th Anniversary Symposium
• November 11, 2004: Laurie Santos (Yale University) -- “The Evolution of Theory of Mind Abilities: How Rhesus Monkeys Reason About The Minds of Others
• December 9, 2004: Christy Marshuetz (Yale University) -- "Neuroimaging studies of Memory for Temporal Order"
• January 27, 2005: Wendy Suzuki (NYU) -- “Associative memory signals in the monkey medial temporal lobe”
• February 24, 2005:
• March 24, 2005: Marlene Behrman, (Carnegie Mellon University) -- “The Objects of Vision”
• April 21, 2005: Jerry Samet, (Brandeis University)

The following talks were given in 2003-4.

• September 18, 2003: Alex Martin, Ph.D. (NIMH) -- "Objects, Concepts, And The Brain"
• October 16, 2003: Paul Glimcher Ph.D. (NYU) -- "Decisions, Uncertainty and the Brain: The role of parietal cortexand the basal ganglia in primate decision"
• November 20, 2003: Daniel Povinelli Ph.D. (Louisiana State University)
• December 11, 2003: Earl K. Miller Ph.D. (MIT) -- "The prefrontal cortex: Categories,concepts, and cognitive control"
• January 29, 2004:
• February 26, 2004:
• March 25, 2004: Michael Turvey Ph.D. (University of Connecticut) -- title TBA
• April 24, 2004: Marlene Oscar Berman, (University of Boston Medical School) --"Cognitive Changes with Long-Term Chronic Alcoholism"

• September 19, 2002: Robert Hampton, Ph.D. (NIMH) "Memory in Macaque Monkeys: Representation, Rentention, and Self-Reflection."
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• October 17, 2002: Andreas Nieder, Ph.D. (MIT) "Of Neurons and Numbers: How the Monkey Cortex Encodes Numerical Information."
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• November 21, 2002: Fred Miles (NIH) "Coding of eye movements by neural activity."
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• December 12, 2002: Jonathan Pincus, M.D. (Washington VA Hospital) "The Neurological Contribution to Violence."
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• January 23, 2003: Laura-Ann Petitto, Ph.D. (Dartmouth College) "How and Why Young Children Acquire Language."
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• February 20, 2003: Alan Leslie, Ph.D. (Rutgers University) TBA
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• March 27, 2003: J.D. Trout, Ph.D. (Loyola Univeristy of Chicago and Parmly Hearing Institute) TBA
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•   April 24, 2003: Sheila Blumstein, Ph.D. (Brown University) TBA
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• September 13, 2001: Michael Goldberg, MD (Columbia University) "Parietal mechanisms for visuospatial attention."
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• October 11, 2001: Cancelled  
• November 8, 2001: Evan Balaban (CUNY: College of Staten Island) "The new study of Instinct: Brain transplants for the study of species behavioral differences"
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• December 6, 2001: Dr. Michael Kahana (Brandeis University) "Associative Processes in Episodic Memory"
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• January 24, 2002: Dr. Diane Reiss "Reflections on Mirror Self-Recognition in the Bottlenose Dolphin: A Case of Cognitive Convergence"
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• February 21, 2002: Dr. Jonathan Cohen (Princeton University) "Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control: Computational Modeling and Neuroimaging Studies."
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• March 21, 2002: Dr. Leslie Ungerleider (NIMH) "Neural mechanisms of visual attention in the human brain"
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• April 25, 2002: Dr. Elizabeth Gould (Princeton University) "Neurogenesis in the Adult Mammalian Brain."
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•   September 21, 2000: Clive D. L. Wynne, (University of Western Australia) "Is a Behavioral Account of Consciousness Possible?"
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• October 19, 2000: Michael Posner (Cornell University Medical School) "Attentional networks: Development and disorders"
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• December 14, 2000: Cancelled  
  
• February 8, 2001: Herman Buschke (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) "Is Counting Sufficient to Measure Memory?"  
  
• March 8, 2001: Mark A. Gluck (Rutgers University) "Dissociating Basal Ganglia and Hippocampal Contributions to Associative Learning: Implications for Memory Deficits in Neurodegenerative Diseases"
  
• April 5, 2001: Donald Stuss(Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto) "Self-Awareness and the Frontal Lobes"
  
• April 26, 2001: Michael Gallagher (Johns Hopkins University) "Effects of Aging on Cognition and Hippocampal/Cortical systems"
  
• May 10, 2001: Frans de Waal (Emory University) "The Ape And The Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections Of A Primatologist."  
  
  
  

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