Speakers 2007-2008
| September 21 |
Dr. E. Glenn Schellenberg |
"Does Music Make You Smarter" |
Abstract |
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September 28 |
No Colloquium |
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October 5 |
Dr. Paul Rozin |
"Exploring the landscape of modern academic psychology: Finding and filling the holes" | |
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October 19 |
Dr. Larry Barsalou |
"Grounding Knowledge in the Brain's Modal Systems" | |
| October 26 | No Colloquium |
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November 2 |
Dr. Prahlad Gupta |
"Three questions regarding phonological short-term memory What is it? Does it causally affect vocabulary growth? Do conflicting accounts need to conflict?" | |
| November 30 | Dr. James W. Lewis Department of Physiology & Pharmacology West Virginia University School of Medicine |
"Cortical processing of auditory objects and action knowledge" | Abstract |
| December 14 | No Colloquium | --- | --- |
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January 18 |
No Colloquium | --- |
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February 15 |
Dr. John Abela |
"Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression in Children and Adolescents" | |
| February 22 |
Dr. Lauren Riters |
Why do birds sing? Neuroendocrine regulation of socially-appropriate vocal communication" | |
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March 7 |
Dr. Rod Martin |
"What's so Funny?: Studying the Psychology of Humour" | |
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March 14 |
Dr. David Rosenbaum |
"Putting Thought Into Action" | |
| March 24/25 |
Dr. Doug Kenrick |
"Evolutionary social cognition: How the mind warps" | Abstract |
| March 28 | Dr. Anne Treisman Department of Psychology Princeton University |
"Broad or narrow focus of attention: how does it determine what we see?" | Abstract |
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April 4 |
Dr. Vicki Esses |
Cancelled |
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April 11 |
Dr. Greg Maio |
"What is the Place of "Values" among Attitudes, Motives and Traits?" | Abstract |
| April 18 |
Dr. Annette Karmiloff-Smith |
"Modules, genes and evolution: a view from developmental cognitive neuroscience" |
