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BCS Spring Colloquium Series
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 The Singleton Auditorium
****Note the colloquium on Friday the 16th of February will be at 2pm****
| Spring 2007 | Speaker/Affiliation | Talk Title | ||
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| February 9 | Garrett Stanley, PhD Associate Professor, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University |
Reading the Neural Code in the Natural Visual World (PDF) | ||
| February 16 | Haim Sompolinsky, PhD Hebrew University and Harvard University ****Note unusual start time of 2 pm |
The Tempotron: a neural model of spike time decoding (PDF) | ||
| February 23 | John Reynolds, PhD Systems Neurobiology Laboratory Salk Institute |
Attention-dependent response modulation varies across cell classes in visual area V4 (PDF) | ||
| March 2 |
Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD Chief, Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BIDMC, Bullard Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School |
Genes that control shape and size of the human cerebral cortex (PDF) | ||
| March 9 | Krish Sathian, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Neurology Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine Emory University; Medical Director, Atlanta VA Center of Excellence in Rehabilitation of Aging Veterans with Vision Loss |
Tactile Perception: Beyond Somatosensory Cortex (PDF) | ||
| March 16 | Jean Rossier MD, PhD Professor and Chairman, Department of Biology, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI) |
Characterization and Roles of Neocortical Interneurons (PDF) | ||
| March 23 | Marcelo Wood, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory University of California , Irvine |
Investigating the role of chromatin remodeling in synaptic plasticity and memory processes. (PDF) |
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| April 6 | György Gergely, Ph.D.,. D. Sc. Professor of Psychology Head of Department of Developmental Research Institute for Psychological Research Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
Learning ‘about' versus learning ‘from' other minds: Natural ‘pedagogy' as a core system for transmitting cognitively opaque cultural knowledge in humans (PDF) | ||
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| April 13 THE BIDWELL LECTURE |
Edward Scolnick, MD Director of the Psychiatry Initiative The Broad Institute |
The Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research: Beginnings and Directions (PDF) | ||
| April 27 | Nick Chater, PhD Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Department of Psychology University College London |
General principles of cognition? (PDF) | ||
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| May 4 THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE |
Larry Abbott, PhD Professor Center for Neurobiology and Behavior Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
The Role of Spontaneous Activity in Sensory Processing (PDF) | ||
| May 11 | Rachael L. Neve, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School |
Faulty Signaling in Alzheimer's disease (PDF) | ||
