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BCS Fall Colloquium Series
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 Auditorium
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| September 14 | |
Alison Barth, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnigie Melon University | |
Live and learn: cumulative experience and synaptic metaplasticity in sensory neocortex |
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| September 21 |
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Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science, Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Economic theory in cognitive science |
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| September 28 |
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Charles F. Stevens, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
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A universal principle governing the structure of axonal and dendritic arbors |
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| October 5 | |
Elissa Newport, George Eastman Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics, Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester | |
Statistical language learning: Computational and maturational constraints |
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| October 19 | |
Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, PhD Associate Professor, Dept of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Research Scientist, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T. |
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Using nanotechnology to repair the CNS: from the 4 Ps of regeneration to crystal clear surgery to in vivo noninvasive imaging of regenerating axons |
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| October 26 | |
Tom Albright, Professor and Director of the Vision Research Center and the Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology Vision Center Laboratory,
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
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Rescheduled for Spring 2008 |
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| November 16 | |
Kalanit Grill-Spector, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Stanford University | |
Plasticity in high level visual cortex: insights from development and fMRI-adaptation |
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| November 30 |
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Read Montague,Brown Foundation Professor of NeuroscienceBaylor College of Medicine | |
Experiential and fictive learning signals during sequential decision tasks in humans |
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| December 7 THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE |
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David Field, Professor, Department of Psychology and the Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University | |
Is it all just a bag of tricks? |
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| December 14 | Peter Bandettini, Chief, Section on Functional Imaging Methods and Director, Functional MRI Core Facility, NIMH | |||
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