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MIT Colloquium Series on Brain and Cognition
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 The Singleton Auditorium

Fall 2009

Speaker/Affiliation

Talk Title

September 18

Keith R. Kluender, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Speech perception as efficient coding. (PDF)

September 25

Hongjun Song, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology/ Institute for Cell Engineering Johns Hopkins University

Intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms regulating adult neural stem cells and neurogenesis. (PDF)

October 2

Howard Eichenbaum, University Professor; Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for Memory and the Brain, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston University

Controversies in the cognitive neuroscience of the medial temporal lobe and episodic memory. (PDF)

October 23

David Smith, FMedSci, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, Founding Director of Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), Hon. Assoc. Director MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford University

Initiation and progression of Alzheimer’s disease: does homocysteine play a role?

October 30

Tania Ionin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Production and comprehension of nominals in second language acquisition.

November 6

Alexandre Pouget, PhD, Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester

Probabilistic inference in neural circuits: from insects to humans.

November 13

Barbara Landau, PhD, Dick and Lydia Todd Professor of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University

Genes, brains, and spatial representation: Evidence from Williams syndrome.

November 20

Elizabeth Spelke, PhD, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Origins of abstract knowledge: Natural geometry.

December 4
THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE

György Buzsáki, MD, PhD, Board of Governors Professor, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University

Cell assembly sequences in the service of cognition.

This event is co-sponsored by The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT.