BCS Fall Colloquium Series
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 Auditorium

Fall 2006		Speaker/Affiliation		Talk Title
September 15		David Heeger, PhD Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science New York University		"Traveling waves in visual cortex during binocular rivalry"
September 22		James Mazer, PhD Yale School of Medicine Department of Neurobiology		"A Ventral Stream Salience Map for Natural Vision"
September 29		Maurice Smith, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences & Center for Brain Science Harvard University		"Motor learning and error feedback control in voluntary movement"
October 6		Roger Levy, PhD Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of California, San Diego		"Expectation-based Syntactic Comprehension"
October 20		Joshua Tenenbaum, PhD Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Computation MIT		"Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning"
October 27		Peter C. Gordon, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology Director of the Graduate Program in Cognitive Psychology Univeristy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill		Memory Constraints on Language Comprehension
November 3		Daniel Johnston, PhD Professor of Neurobiology Center for Learning and Memory University of Texas at Austin		"'Plasticity of intrinsic excitability in hippocampal neurons"
November 17		David Bradley, PhD Associate Professor, Psychology and Neurobiology University of Chicago		"Velocity Computation in the Primate Visual System"
December 1		Maiken Nedergaard, MD, DMSc Professor Department of Neurological Surgery University of Rochester		"In Vivo Imaging of Astrocytes in Adult Brain"
December 8 THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE		Randy Gallistel, PhD Professor Department of Psychology Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University		"How cognitive science will transform neuroscience"

Fall 2005 Archives

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