Colloquium Schedule (2007-2008)
Time: Wednesdays 3:45pm Location: Jordan Hall (Bldg 420), Room 041
Access: Open to the public.
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| Date |
Speaker |
Talk Title |
| Oct 3 |
Eddie Harmon Jones,
Texas A & M University |
Separating Motivational Direction from Affective Valence:
Implications for the Study of Asymmetrical Frontal
Cortical
Activity, Anger, and Positive Affect
Graduate host: Hal Ersner-Hershfield
Faculty host: Benoit Monin |
| Nov 28 |
Alvaro Pascual-Leone,
Harvard University |
TBA
Graduate host: Davie Yoon
Faculty host: Kalanit Grill-Spector |
| Dec 5 |
Linda Smith,
Indiana University |
Action, Objects, Shape and Early Word Learning
Graduate host: Adriana Weisleder
Faculty host: Jay McClelland
|
| Jan 9 |
Yuhong Jiang,
University of Minnesota |
Cognitive Limitations in Visual Perception and Memory
Graduate host: Janice Chen
Faculty host: Kalanit Grill-Spector |
| Jan 16 |
John Cacioppo,
University of Chicago |
TBA
Graduate host: Hal Ersner-Hershfield
Faculty host: Laura Carstensen |
| Jan 23 |
Susan Fiske,
Princeton University |
TBA
Graduate host: Cynthia Levine
Faculty host: Jennifer Eberhardt |
| Feb 20 |
Randy Gallistel,
Rutgers University |
How Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience
Graduate host: Janice Chen
Faculty host: Brian Wandell |
| Mar 12 |
Michael Gazzaniga,
UC Santa Barbara |
The Implications of Modern Neuroscience Knowledge for a
Variety of Social Processes Including the Law and
Judicial Practice
Graduate host: Rosanna Olsen
Faculty host: Anthony Wagner |
| Apr 16 |
George Gergely,
HAS, Hungary |
Beyond Imitative Learning: The Case for Natural Pedagogy Evolutionary Machanisms of Cultural Knowledge Transmission in Humans
Graduate host: Adriana Weisleder
Faculty host: Lera Boroditsky |
| Apr 23 |
Barry Schwartz,
Swarthmore |
The Paradox of Choice
Graduate host: Krishna Savani
Faculty host: Hazel Markus |
| Apr 30 |
Ralph Adolphs,
Caltech |
Looking at Others: Fear, Faces, and the Human Amygdala
Graduate host: Jeff Cooper
Faculty host: Brian Knutson |
| May 7 |
Barbara Fredrickson,
University of North Carolina |
Positive Emotions Broaden Minds and Build Resources
Graduate host: Greg Larkin
Faculty host: Jeanne Tsai |
| May 14 |
Nancy Adler,
UCSF |
Health Disparities: A Psychological Perspective
Graduate host: Nicole Stephens
Faculty host: Hazel Markus |
Colloquium