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BCS Fall Colloquium Series
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 The Singleton Auditorium
| Fall 2007 | Speaker/Affiliation | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 14 | Alison Barth, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnigie Melon University | Live and learn: cumulative experience and synaptic metaplasticity in sensory neocortex |
| September 21 | Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science, Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Economic theory in cognitive science |
| September 28 | Charles F. Stevens, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
A universal principle governing the structure of axonal and dendritic arbors |
| October 5 | Elissa Newport, George Eastman Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics, Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester | Statistical language learning: Computational and maturational constraints |
| October 19 | Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, PhD Associate Professor, Dept of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Research Scientist, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T. |
Using nanotechnology to repair the CNS: from the 4 Ps of regeneration to crystal clear surgery to in vivo noninvasive imaging of regenerating axons |
| October 26 | Tom Albright, Professor and Director of the Vision Research Center and the Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology Vision Center Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | Rescheduled for Spring 2008 |
| November 16 | Kalanit Grill-Spector, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Stanford University | Plasticity in high level visual cortex: insights from development and fMRI-adaptation |
| November 30 | Read Montague,Brown Foundation Professor of NeuroscienceBaylor College of Medicine | Experiential and fictive learning signals during sequential decision tasks in humans |
| December 7 THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE |
David Field, Professor, Department of Psychology and the Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University | Is it all just a bag of tricks? Efforts towards a unified theory of processing in sensory systems |
| December 14 | Peter Bandettini, Chief, Section on Functional Imaging Methods and Director, Functional MRI Core Facility, NIMH | A closer look at fMRI dynamics, fluctuations, and patterns |
