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)
Dec 15

SPRING 2010

Jan 12        AREA faculty meeting
Jan 19        Andrew Engell (Yale)
Jan 26
Feb 2         COG SCI: Geoff Aguirre (U of Pennsylvania, Neurology)
                  "The Geometry of Neural Similarity Spaces Tested Using fMRI"
Feb 9         Joseph Kable (U of Pennsylvania)
Feb 16       Alice Albrecht (Yale)
Feb 23
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      Elise Christopher
Apr 6         COG SCI: Michael Frank (Brown, Cognitive and Linguistic Science)
Apr 13       Sarah Shultz
Apr 20       Brandon Liverence
Apr 27       Presentations by first year students: Kyungmi Kim, Zarrar Shehzad, Aysu Suben
May 4        COG SCI: Nathan Novemsky (Yale School of Management)