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Spring 2005

 Speaker/Affiliation

 Talk Title
February 4

Dr. Laura Schulz
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences; MIT

“Bacon and Laplace Go to Preschool: Experimental Design, Causal Determinism and Four-Year-Olds”
February 11 Dr. Amanda Woodward
Associate Professor of Psychology; University of Chicago

“The Infant Origins of Intentional Understanding”

February 18

 Dr. Asaf Keller
Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology; University of Maryland School of Medicine

“Gateways to Tactile Perception: Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System”
February 25

Dr. Samuel Wang
Assistant Professor of Moleculra Biology & Neuroscience; Princeton University

“Optical Approaches to Synaptic Learning Rules”
March 4 Dr. Andrew Kehler
Associate Professor of Linguistics; University of California at San Diego

 “The Computational Psycholinguistics of Pronoun Interpretation”
March 11 Dr. Dagmar Sternad
Associate Professor of Kinesiology; Pennsylvania State University

 “Discrete and Rhythmic Movements as Two Units of Action”
March 18 Dr. Anne Treisman
Professor of Psychology; Princeton University

 “Broad or Narrow Focus of Attention: How Does It Determine What We See?”

April 1
THE BIDWELL LECTURE
in E25-111

Dr. Bruce Yankner
Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience, Director of the Program in Neurodegeneration; Harvard Medical School, Childrens Hospital

“DNA Damage and Gene Silencing in the Aging Brain”

April 8

 Dr. Mary Kennedy
Professor of Biology; California Institute of Technology

“Calcium-Signaling Mechanisms in the Postsynaptic Spine”
April 15

Thomas Woolsey, M.D.
Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Washington University School of Medicine

“Whiskers, Barrels, Brain”
April 22
THE TEUBER LECTURE
in E25-111 		Dr. Fernando Nottebohm
Professor, Lab of Animal Behavior; Rockefeller University, Field Research Center

“Vocal Learning and the Natural History of Adult Neurogenesis and Neuronal Replacement”
April 29 Jerold Chun, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology; Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatric Disorder Institute, Scripps Research Institute

“Neural Roles for Lysophospholipid Signaling”
May 6 Dr. Gordon Logan
Professor of Psychology; Vanderbilt University

 “Executive Control of Thought and Action: In Search of the Wild Homunculus”


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