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MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition

This colloquium series 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.

Thursdays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 Singleton Auditorium

Spring 2013	Speaker and Affiliation
Feb 7	The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Lecture: Paul Glimcher New York University
Feb 14	Julie Kauer Brown University
Feb 21	Mariano Sigman
Feb 28	James Bisley UCLA
March 7	Teuber Lecture: Elizabeth Spelke Harvard University
March 14	Philip Sharp Lecture: Karel Svoboda
March 21	Leslie Ungerlieder NIH
March 28	SPRING BREAK
April 11	Randy Buckner Harvard University
April 18	Massimo Scanziani UCSD
April 25	Bidwell Lecture: Gail Mandel Oregon Health and Science University
May 2	NO COLLOQUIUM
May 9	Gero Miesenbock Oxford University
May 16	Picower Lecture: Paul Greengard

Fall 2012
Sept 13	What happens to motion processing in early human development? Oliver Braddick Oxford University
Sept 20	Patricia Janak UCSF
Sept 27	Aaron DiAntonio Washington University
October 4	Believing and Time: A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making Teuber Lecture: Michael Shadlen University of Washington
October 11	Zach Mainen
October 18	NO COLLOQUIUM
October 25	Nathaniel Heintz Rockefeller University
November 1	CANCELED Optimal accumulation of evidence for decision-making in rats and humans Carlos Brody Princeton University
November 8	Scott Sternson
November 29	Nancy Bonini University of Pennsylvania
December 6	Matthew Rushworth
December 13	NO COLLOQUIUM

Spring 2012
February 2	Jonathan Wallis PhD University of California Berkeley Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
February 9
February 16	Susan Goldin-Meadow PhD University of Chicago
February 23	NO COLLOQUIUM
March 1	Phillip A. Sharp lecture: Okihide Hikosaka National Eye Institute, NIH
March 8	Teuber Lecture: Bill Bialek PhD Princeton University
March 15	Bidwell Lecture: Steven Hyman, MD Broad Institute Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
March 22	C. Daniel Saltzman
March 29	NO COLLOQUIUM
April 5	Dr. Pablo Castillo Yeshiva University
April 12	BJ Casey, PhD Director, Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology
April 26	Daeyeol Lee Yale University
May 3	Michael Goldberg Columbia University
May 10	NO COLLOQUIUM - PILM Lecture