Spring 2004 Cognition Seminar

General Meeting, Journal Club, and Executive Meeting Schedule

All meetings to be held at
12 noon in room 8/207

JANUARY
27 Second Year Research Presentation: Erin Wamsley


FEBRUARY
3 Student Business Meeting: procedures for distribution of research money. Chair: Rebecca Robare

Report of student business meeting

Form for student fund requests


10 Journal Club Chaired for the semester by David Leitman.

Distinct spatial frequency sensitivities for processing faces and emotional expression

Download paper below.
vullimeyer nat neursci 2003

17 Journal Club: Pejman Sehatpour M.D. will present on the combined use of fMRI and EEG in object recognition

24 Boris Dubrowski
Topic: Conditioning of the Circadian System


MARCH

2 Journal Club:
LEARNING FROM MULTIMODAL OBSERVATIONS

9 Prof. Silverstein: Evidence for, and implications of, the existence of two distinct disorders currently diagnosed as depression.

16 Las Ross. 2nd Year Research Presentation: The effect of sound quality on the perception of a bistable motion illusion

NOTE: Change of room and time: The Psychology Chair's Conference Rm, next to NAC 7/201, March 16 @ 1 PM.

23 Cancelled

30 Ann Marie Yali will make an informal presentation of her reserarch on Mar. 30 at 12 (not 1) PM -- in the Chair's conf room.

APRIL
6 & 13 Spring Recess

20 Journal Club:Chair: Rebecca Robare
Connectionist semantics and the collateral information challenge.

Download paper below:
Garzon, Mind and Language, 2003

27 Cancelled because of presentations by and interviews with prospective faculty. But don't go away, we'll try to schedule some presentations of interest in this time period.

MAY
4 Bias and Prejudgment: From synapses to learned concepts: Joint Cognition & Clinical Programs Part 2: Antrobus, Jurist, Rosario, & Wachtel

11 Second Year Research Presentation by Erin Wamsley, "Circadian Influences on Sleep Mentation" and Business Meeting, incl election of officers.