Spring 2010 Cognitive Science Colloquia

January 28
David Stephens, Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior
"The evolutionary economics of information use: From simple signals to learning".

February

February 4
Victoria Interrante, Computer Science & Engineering
"Self-embodiment in immersive virtual environments: effects on presence and performance"

February 11
Vladimir Cherkassky, Electrical and Computer Engineering
"Predictive data modeling and the nature of scientific discovery"

February 18
Alan Levine, College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences
"Why we can't stop eating: A neuro–speculative approach."

February 25
Travis Thompson, Educational Psychology. Pediatrics:
" Autism: Early intervention and brain development"

 

 

March

 

March 5
Spring Research Day at the Weisman Art Museum. Registered students attend at least one presentation. External speakers: Morton Ann Gernsbacher (UW- Madison) and Jim Haxby (Dartmouth College)

Posters | Program

 

March 11
Michael Potegal, Pediatric Neurology
"The time course of anger and aggression: Is Short Term Potentiation a physiological mechanism of escalation?"

March 25
Al Yonas & Sherryse Corrow, Child Development,

"The development of the ability to represent object shape from static cues in infants."

"Beginning the study of developmental prosopanosia (inability to remember faces) in children."

May

May 6
Jürgen Konczak, Kinesiology