All talks are on Tuesdays, 11.35-12.50, at K 207.FALL 2009 Sept 8 New grad students orientation Sept 15 Woo-kyoung Ahn (Yale) "Clinician's Concepts of the Mental Disorders" Abstract Sept 22 Caren Rotello (U Mass Amherst) "Assessing the Belief Bias Effect with ROCs: It’s a Response Bias Effect" Abstract Sept 29 AREA faculty meeting Oct 6 COG SCI: Dan Kahan (Yale Law School) Oct 13 Ian Quinn (Yale) "Music has syntax, but what are the parts of speech?" Oct 20 David Pitcher (MIT) "TMS studies of the face processing network" Abstract Oct 27 Brice Kuhl (Yale) "Encoding the present while retaining the past" Abstract Nov 3 COG SCI: Hal Blumenfeld (Yale School of Medicine) Nov 10 Nancy Kim (NEU) "Causal beliefs and clinical reasoning" Nov 17 Mara Mather (USC) "Mechanisms of older adults' positivity effects in attention and memory" Abstract Nov 24 THANKSGIVING Dec 1 COG SCI: Liz Spelke (Harvard, Psychology) Dec 8 Natalie Ebner (Yale) "Attention and Memory Biases In Processing of Socially Relevant Information" Dec 15 SPRING 2010 Jan 12 AREA faculty meeting Jan 19 Jan 26 Andrew Engell (Yale) "EEG and fMRI studies of human face perception" Feb 2 Feb 9 Joseph Kable (U of Pennsylvania) "Psychological and neural mechanisms for choosing between immediate and delayed rewards" Feb 16 Alice Albrecht (Yale) "Perceptual Averaging" Feb 23 Kiley Hamlin (Yale) "Developmental Origins of Social and Moral Evaluation" Abstract Mar 2 COG SCI: Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins, Cognitive Science) Mar 9 SPRING BREAK Mar 16 SPRING BREAK Mar 23 Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard) Mar 30 Adam Gazzaley (Assistant Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry and Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center UC San Francisco) "The Aging Brain: Exploring the Crossroads of Memory and Attention" Apr 6 COG SCI: Michael Frank (Brown, Cognitive and Linguistic Science) Apr 13 Sarah Shultz (Yale) Apr 20 Brandon Liverence (Yale) Apr 27 Presentations by first year students: Kyungmi Kim, Zarrar Shehzad, Aysu Suben May 4 COG SCI: Nathan Novemsky (Yale School of Management) |