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)