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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

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