Fall 2009 Colloquia - Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:30 Elliott N119
November 19
Maria Sera (UMN)
Institute for Child Development "A Connectionist Approach to Understanding the Dynamics Between Language and Cognition: Learning Classifiers and Categories" abstract & readings
December 3
Scott Lewis
Brain Sciences Center (UMN)
December 10
Jeff Engelmann (UMN)
Psychology
Previous colloquia
September 10
Wayne McGregor (Random Dance)
Matt Chafee (UMN)
Neuroscience "Choreographing the Brain" (Nolte 125)
Co-sponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
Aldo Rustichini
Economics "Truckers in Green Bay, traders in the City: what I have learned on Intelligence, economic preferences and personality." Reading 1 | Reading 2
October 8
Kathleen Dianne Vohs (UMN)
Institute for Research in Marketing "A Limited-Resource Model of Self-Control" Abstract | Reading 1 | Reading 2 | Reading 3
October 15
Mary Kennedy (UMN)
Speech Language Hearing Sciences "Integrating Metacognitive Research Findings into the Cognitive Rehabilitation of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury" abstract & reading
October 22
Bernard Mettler (UMN)
Aerospace, Engineering, & Mechanics Agile Vehicle Control and Spatial Behavior: Relating Control Principles to Cognitive Dimensions abstract
October 29
Wade Savage (UMN)
Center for Cognitive Science
Philosophy "Wittgenstein on ambiguous figures" abstract & readings
Paul Schrater
Psychology & Computer Science
November 5
Keisha Varma (UMN)
Educational Psychology "Assessing Students´ Understanding of Concepts, Mechanism, and Experimentation" abstract
November 12
Angus MacDonald III (UMN)
Psychology "Mechanisms Underlying the Happiness Set-Point: Personality and Gain- Loss Sensitivity" abstract