Winter/Spring 2009 Schedule

January 7, 2009 - Adam Safron (Bailey Lab)
Neural Correlates of Sexual Orientation

January 21, 2009 - Psychiatry Grand Rounds, 11:30 AM to 1 PM
Deanna Barch, Washington University, St. Louis
Pritzker Auditorium, Feinberg Pavilion, Chicago campus
Schizophrenia: Losing Control Over Thoughts, Memories and Emotions

January 28, 2009 - Psychiatry Grand Rounds, 11:30 AM to 1 PM
Steven Small, University of Chicago
Pritzker Auditorium, Feinberg Pavilion, Chicago campus
The Chicago Cubs

February 4, 2009 - Rob Hurley (Mesulam Lab)
Electrophysiology of Object Naming In Primary Progressive Aphasia

February 11, 2009 - Joan Chiao - to lead discussion on these papers:
Vul paper   Lieberman paper   Jabbi paper
Voodoo correlations: Separating the wheat from the chaff

February 18, 2009- Donna Bridge (Chiao Lab)
Conceptual social power and neurocognitive mechanisms of math performance

February 25, 2009 - Marwan Baliki (Apkarian Lab)
PhD Dissertation Defense

March 4, 2009 - Charlene Lee (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Top-down executive & automatic processes during lexical ambiguity resolution for noun/verb homographs

March 18, 2009 - Fan Cao (Booth Lab)
title

April 1, 2009 - Todd Parrish
Discussion about the 32 channel head coil and future plans for imaging

April 15, 2009 - Li Liu (Booth Lab)
Children with reading disability show modality-specific deficits in semantic processing: A model comparison approach using effective connectivity

May 1, 2009 - Annual DATA BLITZ for the T32 training program and the CBMG
Evanston Campus, FSB 3-417
List of Presentations

May 6, 2009 - Dr. Hide Komeda (guest of Chiao Lab)
Neural substrates of representing a protagonist's mental and physical states in narrative comprehension

May 20, 2009 -

June 3, 2009 -

June 17, 2009 -

Past Presentations

January 30, 2008 - Joel Voss (Paller Lab)
Conceptual priming and explicit recognition with squiggles

February 13, 2008 - Tobias Egner (Egner Lab)
Are repetition suppression effects a consequence of predictive coding?

February 20, 2008 - Aprajita Mohanty (Mesulam Lab)

February 27, 2008 - Paul Geha (Apkarian Lab)
Do CRPS patients age faster than healthy subjects?

March 7, 2008 - Friday Afternoon, lunch at noon, talks start at 1 PM
Annual DATA BLITZ (for the T32 training program and the CBMG)
Ward 5-230, Med school, Chicago Campus

April 2, 2008 - Nadia Cone and Fan Cao (Booth Lab)

April 30, 2008 - Marwan Baliki (Apkarian Lab)

May 7, 2008 - Eric Gobel (Reber Lab)

May 21, 2008 - Bharath Chandrasekaran (Incoming Post-Doc with Patrick Wong)

May 28, 2008 - Robert Hurley (Mesulam Lab and Paller Lab)

December 10, 2008 - Lei Wang (Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

December 17, 2008 - Holiday Break

August 18, 2004: Apkarian Lab
      Title New strategies for pain drug development: Human brain imaging studies leading to a new class of analgesics?
      Presenter:Vania Apkarian

August 25, 2004: Gitelman Lab
      Title Analysis and Aquisition of Strucutural MRI images
      Presenter:Darren Gitelman

September 8, 2004: Parrish Lab
      Title MRI facilities and new protocol update
      Presenter:Todd Parrish

September 22, 2004: Paller Lab (Invited Speaker)
      Title Studies of Perceptual Learning
      Presenter:Stephen Engel

October 13, 2004: Reber Lab
      Title Studying Perceptual Expertise with fMRI
      Presenter:Joan Fisher

November 17, 2004: Booth Lab
      Title Effective Connectivity in Spelling and Rhyming Tasks
      Presenter:Tali Bitan

February 2, 2005: Apkarian Lab
      Title
      Presenter:Paul Geha

February 16, 2005: Gitelman Lab
      Title Dynamic Causal Modelling
      Presenter:Siri Sonty

March 2, 2005: Paller Lab
      Title Fluent does not equal familiar: Distinct neural markers for conceptual priming and episodic familiarity
      Presenter:Joel Voss

March 9, 2005: Paller Lab
      Title Unseen Emotion Taints What We See -- An Investigation on Unconscious Emotional Processing
      Presenter: Wen Li

April 13, 2005: Mesulam Lab
      Title
      Presenter: Mojtaba Zarei (Visiting Professor from Oxford)

April 20, 2005: Jung-Beeman Lab
      Title Mood effects on insight problem solving
      Presenter: Karuna Subramaniam

May 4, 2005: Booth Lab
      TitleOrthographic and Phonological Representations in Children: An fMRI Study
      Presenter:Tali Bitan

May 18, 2005: Reber Lab
      Title Wrestling with the problem of threshold setting in fMRI data analysis: Development of a Monte Carlo method based on "matched noise"
      Presenter: Kate Murray

June 8, 2005: Parrish Lab
      Title Arterial Spin Labeling
      Presenter: Jennie

October 5, 2005: Booth Lab
      Title Development of lexical specificity in occipito-temporal cortex
      Presenter: Douglas D. Burman

October 19: Reber Lab
      Title Visuomotor coordination with predictable and unpredictable targets
      Presenter: Lucia Simo

November 2, 2005: Wong Lab
      Title Behavioral and Neural Characteristics of Successful and Less Successful Language Learning in Adults
      Presenter: Patrick Wong

November 16, 2005: Gottfried Lab
      Title Odor quality and odorant structure
      Presenter: Jay Gottfried

January 18, 2006: Apkarian Lab
      Title Interactions between aging, pain duration, and brain activity - what does it imply about mechanisms of chronic pain?
      Presenter: Paul Geha

February 1, 2006: Gitelman Lab
      Title Neuroimaging, Incidental findings, and Human subjects
      Presenter: Darren Gitelman

February 8, 2006: Reber Lab
      Title Development of snowflake category knowledge
      Presenter: Antonio Gisbert

February 15, 2006: Wong Lab
      Title Effects of linguistic proficiency on talker identification
      Presenter: Patrick Wong and Tyler Perrachione

March 15, 2006: Paller Lab
      Title Different brain mechanisms support implicit versus explicit learning in a visual search task
      Presenter: Brennan Miller

March 22, 2006: Gottfried Lab
      Title Learning to smell the roses: olfactory perceptual learning in human piriform and orbitofrontal cortex
      Presenter: Wen Li

April 19, 2006: Thompson Lab
      Title Neural correlates of verb and verb argument structure processing in normal and aphasic individuals
      Presenter: Steve Fix
      Title The hemodynamic response function (HRF) in vascular lesions: implications for analysis of fMRI data in patients
      Presenter: Borna Bonakdarpour

May 3, 2006: Jung-Beeman Lab
      Title Mood effects on problem solving with insight
      Presenter: Karuna Subramaniam

May 10, 2006: Journal Club
      Title Declarative memory consolidation in humans - Takashima et al. - PNAS 2006
      Presenter: John Rudoy - Paller Lab

May 17, 2006: Mesulam Lab
      Title Effects of emotion on attention and executive function
      Presenter: Appu Mohanty

May 24, 2006: Gitelman Lab
      Title T BA
      Presenter: TB A

June 7, 2006: Journal Club
      Title Anterior temporal laterality in PPA shifts to the right - Peeters et al. - Annals of Neurology 2005
      Presenter: Dirk den Ouden - Thompson Lab

June 14, 2006: Parrish Lab
      Title Bilateral activation in individuals post-stroke
      Presenter: Gwyn Lewis

June 21, 2006: Journal Club
      Title Direct evidence for a parietal-frontal pathway subserving spatial awareness in humans
      Presenter: Metehan Cicek - Mesulam Lab

October 4, 2006: DJ Bolger, Booth Lab
The Development of Orthographic Knowledge: A Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation of Reading Skill

October 18, 2006: Tobias Egner, Mesulam Lab
Do spatial and feature-based visual attention reflect independent neural mechanisms?

November 1, 2006: Doug Burman, Booth Lab
Sex Differences in Neural Processing of Language

November 13, 2006: Randy McIntosh, University of Toronto
Special lecture at noon and PLS workshop at 4 PM
Context and catalysts in brain network function

November 15, 2006: Joan Chiao, Chiao Lab
Visualizing cultural influences on neural systems of emotion

November 29, 2006: Wong Lab
The reverse hierarchy theory of auditory and speech learning

December 6, 2006: Paller Lab
Visiting Speaker, Reza Habib, Southern Illinois University
The Neural Signature of Temporarily Inaccessible Memories
Note: Chicago campus location is Lurie Building, Hughes Auditorium

December 13, 2006: Camelia M. Kuhnen, Kellogg
The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking
Note: Chicago campus location is Lurie Building, Hughes Auditorium

January 10, 2007: Apkarian Lab: Marwan Baliki

January 24, 2007: Gitelman Lab: Siri Sonty
Primary Progressive Aphasia: fMRI investigations of the language network

February 7, 2007: Thompson Lab: Dirk den Ouden
Naming verbs from movies and pictures

February 21, 2007: Jung-Beeman Lab: Nira Mashal

March 7, 2007:
ANNUAL CBMG DATA BLITZ IN EVANSTON

March 14, 2007: Recover from the data blitz; no meeting

March 21, 2007: Spring Break

April 4, 2007: Gottfried Lab: Wen Li
Shock to the senses: Olfactory aversive learning and neural plasticity in piriform and orbitofrontal cortices

April 18, 2007: TBA Journal CLub

April 25, 2007 at 4PM: Mark D'Esposito, UC Berkeley
From cognitive to neural models of working memory
Pancoe Auditorium, videoconferenced to Gray Room, Lurie Building

May 9, 2007: Mesulam Lab: Rob Hurley

May 16, 2007: Apkarian Lab: Marwan Baliki

May 30, 2007: Theresa Pape, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

June 6, 2007: Mesulam Lab: Appu Mohanty
NOTE: Chicago location is Hughes Auditorium, Lurie Building

June 7, 2007, 11 AM: Reber Lab: Eric Gobel
Dissociating response planning components of perceptual-motor sequence learning

October 17, 2007 - Joan Chiao
Neural representations of social status hierarchy in human inferior parietal cortex

October 31, 2007 - Dirk den Ouden (Thompson Lab)

November 14, 2007 - Patrick Wong's Lab

November 21, 2007 - Special Visitor: Brian Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Brian's Homepage
Medial temporal lobe contributions to recognition memory
Special Rooms: Library Forum Room (Evanston) & Wieboldt Videoconference room (Chicago)

December 5, 2007 - Special Visitor: Nikos Logothetis, MPI Tuebingen - Nikos' Homepage
From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition: A Bridge Too Far?
Special Rooms: Swift Hall room 107 (Evanston) & Wieboldt Videoconference room (Chicago)
Special Time: 4:15 PM

December 12, 2007 - DJ Bolger (Booth Lab)
Tracking reading skill through plasticity and integration