Current Work in Cognitive Science, 2009–10
Current Work in Cognitive Science
A Series of Lunchtime Presentations
All talks (unless otherwise noted) are in Kirtland Hall 207 (2 Hillhouse Avenue) on Tuesdays from 11:35am - 12:50pm. All are invited and encouraged to attend.
- October 6: Dan Kahan, Yale Law School, "The Laws of Cultural Cognition, and the Cultural Cognition of Law"
- October 13 -- special bonus session: Ian Quinn, Yale, Music, " "Music has syntax, but what are the parts of speech?" -- Current Work in Cognitive Psychology Lunch
- November 3: Hal Blumenfeld, Yale School of Medicine, "Epilepsy as a Window to Understanding the Consciousness System"
- December 1: Liz Spelke, Harvard, Psychology
- February 2: Geoff Aguirre, Penn, Neurology, "The Geometry of Neural Similarity Spaces Tested using fMRI"
- March 2: Paul Smolensky, JHU, Cognitive Science, "An integrated connectionist/symbolic theory of phonological competence/performance"
- April 6: Michael Frank, Brown, Cognitive and Linguistic Science
- May 4: Nathan Novemsky, Yale School of Management
Current Work in Cognitive Science, 2008–9
- October 7: Joshua Knobe, UNC Chapel Hill, “The Pervasive Impact of Moral Judgment”
- November 4: Ken Pugh, Yale, “Neuroimaging studies of reading development and reading disability: Establishing brain/behavior links”
- December 2: Joshua Tenenbaum, MIT
- February 3: Amy Arnsten, Yale, “Molecular Modulation of Prefrontal Cortical Working Memory Networks”
- March 3: Bertram Malle, Brown, “Is there a hierarchy of social inferences? The ease and speed of judging intentionality, mind, and morality”
- April 7: Aude Oliva, MIT, “Remembering Thousands of Images with High Fidelity”
