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
