Fall Institute 2015

Research Overviews from CCS Faculty: "Building Connections"

9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Thursday, November 19
402 Walter Library - University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Campus

Fall Institute 2015 featured talks by 24 CCS faculty members representing Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Child Development, Computer Science & Engineering, Economics, Kinesiology, Educational Psychology, and Ecology, Evolution and Behavior.

Victoria Interrante – Computer Science "Virtual Reality"
Daniel Kersten – Psychology
Allen Levine – Food Science and Nutrition "Why we can't stop eating"
Apostolos P. Georgopoulos – Neuroscience "Brain Mechanisms of Cognitive Processes"
Cheryl Olman – Psychology "Does fMRI measure useful things?"
Andrew Oxenham – Psychology & Otolaryngology "Auditory Perception"
Steve Engel – Psychology "Adult Visual Plasticity"
Maria Sera – Child Development "Language Learning and Cognition"
Sashank Varma – Educational Psychology "Good Old-Fashioned Cognitive Science"
Jonathan Gewirtz – Psychology & Neuroscience "Modeling Social Cognition in Mice"
Colin DeYoung – Psychology "Personality Neuroscience"
Aldo Rustichini – Economics "Intelligence and Strategic Behavior"
David Stephens – Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior "Experimental Evolution of Learning"
Panayiota Kendeou – Educational Psychology 'Learning to Read' and 'Reading to Learn'
David Redish – Neuroscience "The importance of understanding neural processes in cognition for putting the 'neuro' into neuroeconomics"
Megan Gunnar – Child Development "Human Developmental Psychobiology Laboratory"
Gordon Legge – Psychology Vision research "The Impact of Impaired Vision on Reading and Mobility"
Jürgen Konczak – Kinesiology "Proprioception"
Geoffrey Ghose – Neuroscience "The Physiology of Self-Help: neuronal mechanisms of attention and learning"
Matt Chafee – Neuroscience
Wilma Koutstaal – Psychology "Our Innovating Minds: How So?"
Angus MacDonald – Psychology "Functional Connectivity: Neurometrics and Plasticity"
Jeanette Gundel – Linguistics "Linguistics and Cognitive Science"