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MIT Colloquium on Brain and Cognition
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 The Singleton Auditorium
| Fall 2009 | Speaker/Affiliation | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 18 | Keith R. Kluender, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Speech perception as efficient coding. (PDF) |
| September 25 | Hongjun Song, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology/ Institute for Cell Engineering Johns Hopkins University | Intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms regulating adult neural stem cells and neurogenesis. (PDF) |
| October 2 | Howard Eichenbaum, University Professor; Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for Memory and the Brain, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston University | Controversies in the cognitive neuroscience of the medial temporal lobe and episodic memory. (PDF) |
| October 23 | David Smith, FMedSci, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, Founding Director of Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), Hon. Assoc. Director MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford University | Initiation and progression of Alzheimer’s disease: does homocysteine play a role? (PDF) |
| October 30 | Tania Ionin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | Production and comprehension of nominals in second language acquisition. (PDF) |
| November 6 | Alexandre Pouget, PhD, Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester | Probabilistic inference in neural circuits: from insects to humans. (PDF) |
| November 13 | Barbara Landau, PhD, Dick and Lydia Todd Professor of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University | Genes, brains, and spatial representation: Evidence from Williams syndrome. (PDF) |
| November 20 | Elizabeth Spelke, PhD, Department of Psychology, Harvard University | Origins of abstract knowledge: Natural geometry. (PDF) |
| December 4 THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE |
György Buzsáki, MD, PhD, Board of Governors Professor, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University | Cell assembly sequences in the service of cognition. (PDF) |
This event is co-sponsored by The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT.
