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Fall 2009
Spring 2010
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.

Contact: Please send comments or questions to or


Fall 2009

9/14   Jack Grinband, Columbia Medical Center, "Time and the BOLD response:  Why the ACC cannot detect conflict"

9/21   Ed Smith, Columbia Psychology, "Different Kinds of Cognitive Control, and Implications for Schizophrenia"

9/28   Tony Ro, CUNY, "Neural mechanisms for conscious and unconscious vision"

10/5   Janet Metcalfe,  Columbia Psychology, "Metacognition of Agency"

10/12  Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, UCL, "The social brain in adolescence"

10/19  Gregory Murphy, NYU, "Reasoning about Categories"

10/26  Koleen McCrink, Barnard, "Mathematical Operations Throughout the Lifespan"

11/9    Michael Goldberg, Columbia Medical Center, "How the parietal cortex maintains a spatially accurate priority map despite a moving eye"

11/16  Tor Wager, Columbia Psychology, "The science of placebo: How meaning affects the brain and body"

11/23  Dima Amso, Cornell Medical College, "Mechanisms of Visual Information Acquisition: A Developmental Account" 

11/30  Franco Pestilli, Columbia Medical Center, "Neural signature of attentional selection early in human visual cortex"

12/7    Lila Davachi, NYU

12/14  Kirstin Appelt, Columbia Psychology 

Spring 2010

Schedule to be announced
 
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