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BCS Fall Colloquium Series
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 Auditorium
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| February 8 (Wednesday) Special BCS Seminar |
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Pawan Sinha, PhD Associate Professor of Computational Science Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT |
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"From Fragments to Objects: Mechanisms of Visual Integration" |
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| February 10 | |
Elly Nedivi, PhD Fred and Carol Middleton Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT |
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"Diverse roles for activity-dependent genes in brain development and plasticity" |
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| February 17 |
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Simon Thorpe, PhD Director of Research French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) |
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"Scene processing with a wave of spikes: Reverse engineering the visual system" |
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| February 24 |
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Elizabeth Grove, PhD Professor, Dept. Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology University of Chicago |
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"Signaling centers in embryonic cortex: their function and fate" |
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| March 3
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Lee Osterhout, PhD Associate Professor University of Washington |
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"Correcting our vision of language with event-related brain potentials" |
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| March 10 | |
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| March 17 | |
Bharathi Jagadeesh,
Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics University of Washington School of Medicine |
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"'Tuning' in inferotemporal (IT) cortex and recognition of realistic images" |
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| April 7 | |
John Mikhail, JD/PhD Associate Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center |
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"Moral cognition and theory of mind: A computational framework" |
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| April 11 (Tuesday) THE BIDWELL LECTURE |
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Peter Strick, PhD Professor, Department of Neurobiology, and Co-director CNBC University of Pittsburgh |
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"Building blocks for movement in the motor cortex" |
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| April 14 | |
Diego Contreras, MD, PhD Asst Professor of Neuroscience School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
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"Input integration in primary somatosensory cortex" |
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| April 21 | |
Xiaoqin Wang, PhD Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience and Otolaryngology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
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"Information processing in auditory cortex" |
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| April 28 |
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Xiao-Jing Wang, PhD Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Brandeis University |
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"Reverberatory cortical dynamics underlying decision making and selective attention" |
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| May 5 THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE |
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Ranulfo Romo, MD, DSc Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) |
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"Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions" |
Fall 2005 Archives
