Perception

Wed, May 22, 2013 - 10:12am

May

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
		1 12:00pm - 01:00pm Christian Langkammer - Insights into tissue composition and microstructure by postmortem MRI 02:00pm - 03:00pm Gabrielle Liverant - Relations among Smoking, Anhedonia, and Reward Learning in Unipolar Sepression 02:30pm - 03:30pm Dima Amso - The Utility of Visual Attention: Evidence from Typical and Atypical Development	2 05:00pm The role of fMRI in Cognitive Science: A discussion with Rebecca Saxe and Brian Scholl 06:00pm - 07:00pm Steven Hassan - Sacrificing Freedom of Mind: How We Fall Prey to Cults and Controllers	3 01:00pm - 02:00pm David Osher - Function Follows Form: How Connectivity Patterns Govern Neural Responses 04:00pm - 05:00pm Linda Van Aelst - The role of G proteins in neuronal development and plasticity	4	5
6 10:00am - 11:00am Retsina Meyer - Neurobiologically-motivated treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in an animal model	7 12:00pm - 01:00pm Leon Bergen - The lexicon in learning and pragmatic inference 04:30pm - 06:00pm Rosemary Varley - Language and Thought: evidence from severe aphasia	8 08:30am - 05:30pm 2013 McGovern Institute Symposium: NEURAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT 12:00pm - 01:00pm Chongzhao Ran - Optical Imaging of Amyloidosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Brown Adipose Tissue	9	10	11	12
13 12:00pm - 01:00pm Joshua Buckholtz - The Causal Biology of Antisocial Behavior 12:00pm - 01:00pm Brian Kangas - Touchscreen Technology and the Preclinical Pharmacology of Complex Behavior 05:00pm - 06:30pm MIT Workshop: Transforming Science Coverage in the General Media	14 12:00pm - 01:00pm Laura Schulz's Infant and Childhood Cognition class 04:00pm - 05:00pm Joshua Sanes - Wiring up the retina 04:00pm - 05:00pm Suzanne Corkin - The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.	15 12:00pm - 01:00pm Martha Shenton - The Role of Neuroimaging in mTBI, Schizophrenia, and CTE: DTI, MRS, and Emerging PET Tau Imaging in CTE 06:00pm - 07:00pm Lawrence Fitzgerald - Opportunities and Challenges in Drug Discovery for Autism Spectrum Disorders	16 01:00pm - 02:30pm Eric Reiman - Advancing The Preclinical Study and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease 04:00pm - 05:00pm Paul Greengard - Understanding the Molecular Basis of Major Depressive Disorder: A Work in Progress	17 10:30am - 12:00pm Oded Ghitza - Speech perception, cortical theta oscillations and auditory channel capacity 12:00pm - 01:00pm Paul Muentener - Predicting developmental outcomes from infants' early exploratory behaviors	18	19
20 01:00pm - 02:00pm Chia-Huei Tseng - Perceptual grouping in visual search	21 02:00pm - 03:00pm Krista Ehinger - Visual Features for Scene Recognition and Reorientation	22 12:00pm - 01:00pm Evelina Fedorenko - A novel framework for a neural architecture of language	23	24 10:30am - 12:00pm Hideki Kawahara	25	26
27	28 04:30pm - 05:30pm Sharon Thompson-Schill - Costs and benefits of cognitive control for language processing	29 02:00pm - 03:00pm Amanda Tarullo - Developmental Consequences of Early Deprivation: Neural Function, Diurnal Cortisol Activity, and Social Behavior in Post-institutionalized Children	30	31

Time:

Mon, May 20, 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Place:

64 Sidney St., Cambridge, MA 02139, Suite #170

Chia-Huei Tseng (The University of Hong Kong)
http://www.psychology.hku.hk/pall/

Abstract:

The practical and theoretical importance of how attention guides visual search has attracted psychologists for decades, yet we are still far from having a complete picture. One of the unanswered questions is how attention is directed by the relation between parts of a scene (perceptual grouping).

Time:

Wed, Mar 27, 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Place:

64 Sidney St., Cambridge, MA 02139, Suite #170

Jeremy Wilmer (Wellesley College)
http://academics.wellesley.edu/Psychology/Wilmer/Jeremy_Wilmer/Home.html

Abstract:

Time:

Mon, Sep 10, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

243 Charles St Boston, MA 02114, Sloane Room, Third floor

Michael Barnett-Cowan (Western University)

Abstract:

Time:

Mon, Jun 4, 2012 - 12:00pm - 2:30pm

Place:

716 Columbus Ave, Boston, Alum Ctr Pavilion

A Northeastern University Affective Science Institute symposium, featuring talks by four young investigators.
(Update - a planned poster session has been canceled.)

http://www.northeastern.edu/asi/emerging-prospectives-symposium/

Eliza Bliss-Moreau, California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis
Comparative Affective Science: What can we learn from nonhuman primates?

Time:

Tue, May 1, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, William James Hall 765

Joo-Hyun Song
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Brown University, U.S.A

Abstract:

Time:

Thu, Apr 26, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 46-3189

Dominique L. Pritchett
BS, Chemistry, Virginia State U, 2002

Thesis Supervisor
Christopher Moore

This thesis may be read online at http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/9/fa06/9.THESIS-BCS/materials.html
Please note: draft thesis requires an MIT certificate for access.

Time:

Wed, Feb 22, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Place:

33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, William James Hall 474

John Assad (Harvard Neuroscience)

Abstract:

Time:

Fri, Dec 9, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

20 Staniford Street 02114, 2W Common Room

Adam Reeves
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston

Time:

Wed, Oct 19, 2011 - 5:30pm - 6:15pm

Place:

13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA, Askwith Hall (inside Longfellow hall)

Framing the Future of MBE:
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Conference

Wednesday October 19th 2011
ASKWITH HALL 5:30 – 6:15pm
Reception to follow, Larsen 214, 6:15 –7:00 pm

Gigi Luk, Kathleen H. Corriveau, Peter Blake, Priya Kalra, Yvonne Domings and Carlo Cerruti on bilingualism and cognition, the evolutionary roots of altruism, bias and perception, social cues and learning, technology and learning disabilities, and memory systems.

Hosted by the Mind, Brain, & Education Student Association at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Time:

Thu, Oct 13, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Place:

33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, William James Hall 765

Andrew Leber (Vision Lab, Harvard Psychology & University of New Hampshire)

Abstract:

Boston-NeuroTalks Calendar 3.0

May

Keywords:

Chia-Huei Tseng - Perceptual grouping in visual search

Jeremy Wilmer - Individual differences as a window into the mind and a foundation for translational research: The example of face processing

Michael Barnett-Cowan: Multisensory determinants of orientation perception

Bliss-Moreau, Lindquist, Somerville, & Zaki - Emerging Perspectives in Affective Science

Joo- Hyun Song - How do perception, cognition, and action interact in a complex visual environment?

Dominique Pritchett - Systematic Examination of the Impact of Pre-Stimulus Alpha-Mu and Gamma Band Oscillations on Perception: Correlative and Causal Manipulation in Mice and Human

John Assad - Decisions, Categories and Parietal Cortex

Adam Reeves - Can one see more than two transparent depth planes at once?

Framing the Future of Mind, Brain, & Education: Cognitive Neuroscience Research Conference

Andrew Leber - States of Distraction: the Ebb and Flow of Attentional Control

Upcoming: