Past Cognitive Science Department Colloquia
Fall Semester 2012:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Geoffrey K. Aguirre | Neurology/University of Pennsylvania | Thursday, September 13, 2012 | Dissecting neural similarity: scale, prototypes, and interactions |
| Dr. Jesse Snedeker | Psychology/Harvard University | Thursday, September 27, 2012 | Fast, smart and out of control: the development of online language comprehension |
| Dr. Steve Palmer | Psychology & Cognitive Science/UC Berkeley | 4:00 PM, MONDAY, October 1, 2012 | Human Color Preferences: An Ecological Approach |
| Dr. Jon Sprouse | Cognitive Science/UC Irvine | Thursday, October 25 2012 | Experimental Syntax and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language |
| Dr. Marcin Morzycki | Linguistics/Michigan State University | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | Degrees as Kinds |
Spring Semester 2012:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Edward Flemming | MIT | February 2, 2012 | Conflict resolution in phonetics and phonology |
| Dr. Terry Regier | UC Berkeley | February 9, 2012 | Universals and variation in language and thought |
| Dr. Tom Mitchell | Carnegie-Mellon University | February 16 2012 | Neural Representations of Word Meanings |
| Dr. Julien Musolino | Rutgers University | April 19, 2012 | The logical syntax of number words: theory, acquisition, and processing |
| Dr. Jeff Runner | University of Rochester | April 26, 2012 | Beyond the height of ellipsis: parallelism conditions on VP ellipsis, Pseudogapping and Sluicing |
Fall Semester 2011:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Frank Tong | Vanderbilt University Psychology Department | September 22, 2011 | The Role of Early Visual Areas in High-level Visual Cognition |
| Dr. Greg Hickok | University of California, Irvine Cognitive Sciences; School of Social Sciences | September 29, 2011 | Towards a Computational Neuroanatomy of Speech Production and Its Relation to Speech Perception |
| Dr. Valentine Hacquard | University of Maryland Department of Linguistics | October 20, 2011 | Understanding desire and belief reports |
| Dr. Russell Epstein | University of Pennsylvania Center for Cognitive Neuroscience | October 27, 2011 | From scenes to cognitive maps: Spatial navigation systems in the human brain |
| Dr. Charles Kemp | Carnegie-Mellon University Department of Psychology | November 17, 2011 | A Unifying Account of Inductive Reasoning |