Time: Mondays 12:10 PM
Location: 200C Schermerhorn
Theme: A forum for discussing research on cognitive topics, including perception, reasoning, memory, language, movement, and AI.
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Mailing List: Cognitive Lunch
Fall 2011
09/12/2011 Aniruddha Das, Columbia University, "Task anticipation and sensory processing in primary visual cortex"
09/19/2011 Todd Hudson, NYU, "Multiple movement codes for movement planning"
09/26/2011 Yael Niv, Princeton University, "Learning latent structure"
10/03/2011 Larry Maloney, NYU, "Sources of uncertainty: human performance in a wide variety of visual and motor tasks equivalent to classical decision making"
10/10/2011 Laura Martin, Rutgers University, "Emotion regulation and decision-making"
10/17/2011 Anna van Duijvenvoorde, University of Amsterdam, "Risky choice strategies: individual differences and developmental comparisons"
10/24/2011 Jerry Bruder, Columbia University, "Left hemisphere dysfunction in a subtype of schizophrenia: Dichotic listening and working memory findings"
10/31/2011 Elliott Wimmer, Columbia University, "Decision making and memory: effects of reward and choice"
11/14/2011 Malia Mason, Columbia University, "Managing Trade-Offs in Attention to Current and Future Pursuits"
11/21/2011 Nick Turk-Browne, Princeton University, "Statistical learning: detecting, representing, and using regularities in perception"
11/28/2011 Josh New, Barnard College, "Arresting perception: Animate objects capture attention and 'slow' time"
12/05/2011 Julia Trommershaeuser, NYU, "Sensory Learning"
12/12/2011 Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University, "The inherent value of choice and the perception of control"
Spring 2012
01/23/2012 C. Daniel Salzman, Columbia University, "Cognitive Signals in the Amygdala"
01/30/2012 John Voiklis, Stevens Institute of Technology, "The Pragmatics of Category Learning"
02/06/2012 Daniel Casasanto, New School for Social Research, "Different Bodies, Different Minds: The body specificity of language and thought"
02/13/2012 Karen Kelly, Columbia University, "Metacognition of Emotion Recognition"
02/20/2012 Dobromir Rahnev, Columbia University, "The variance reduction model of attention"
02/27/2012 Michael Landy, NYU, "Texture perception and coding"
03/05/2012 Jennifer Mangels, Baruch College, "TBA"
03/19/2012 Joshua Knobe, Yale University, "Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist"
03/26/2012 Robert E. Remez, Barnard College & Columbia University, "Auditory and lexical structure in the recognition of words /or /I understand you better now that you sound so familiar"
04/02/2012 Jennifer Kubota, NYU, "TBA"
04/09/2012 Sheena S. Iyengar, Columbia University, "TBA"
04/16/2012 Daniela Schiller, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, "Changing fear: The neural mechanisms of emotional control and flexibility"
05/07/2012 Dan Bartels, Columbia University, "TBA"