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 Spring 2008 Colloquia

 Thursdays
4:00-5:30
N119 Elliot Hall - campus map

May 8
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Scott Sponheim, Mental Health and Brain Sciences Center, VAMC
"Tracking Effects of the COMT Gene in the Symptoms, Cognition, and Neural Function of Schizophrenia"

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 Previous Colloquia

May 1
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Phil Zelazo, Child Development
"Does consciousness develop?"

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April 24
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David J. Rhees, Executive Director, The Bakken
“The Body Electric: From Electric Fish to the Brain Pacemaker”

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April 17
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Jeremy Wolfe, Harvard Medical School
"Visual Search: Is it a matter of life and death?"
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April 10
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John Peponis, Georgia Institute of Technology
"The intelligence of layouts"
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March 27
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Sheng He, Psychology
"Conscious and unconscious visual processing of faces, body movements, tools and words"


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March 13
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David Redish, Neuroscience
"Exploring the neurophysiology of the decision-making machine- implications for addiction"
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March 6
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Linda Smith, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
"Weird loops: From object recognition to symbolic play to learning nouns and back"
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February 28
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Jason Ford, UMD Philosophy
"Saving Time: How Attention Explains the Utility of Supposedly Superfluous Representations"
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February 21
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Melissa Koenig, Child Development
"Children’s trust in testimony: The roles of induction and social cognition"
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February 14
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Chad Marsolek, Psychology
"Identifying objects impairs knowledge of other objects"
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February 7
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Ross Flom, Brigham Young University
"Intersensory Redundancy: Its Role in Early Learning and Memory"
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 January 24
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Herb Pick
, Child Development
"Optical Flow in the Calibration and Regulation of Locomotion"

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 January 31
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Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
"Camera Networks for Security Applications"

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