Cognitive Neuroscience Events
on the Evanston Campus

Current Year - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 and earlier
See the following event lists as well: Psychology - NUIN - CogSci - NBP - CBMG



Fall 2011 and beyond

October 27
Phenomenology, Perception and Cognition workshop
Mark Paterson (Pittsburgh)
Haptic perception

November 8
Phenomenology, Perception and Cognition workshop
Fiona MacPherson (Glasgow) and Richard Gray (Cardiff)
Individuating the senses

December 2
Phenomenology, Perception and Cognition workshop
Clare Batty (Kentucky)
Olfactory perception

December 12
Phenomenology, Perception and Cognition workshop
David Hilbert (UIC)
Color constancy

Thursday, March 29, 2012, Noon
CogNS/CNADC talk, Hughes Auditorium (with possible Evanston site)
Roberto Cabeza, Duke University
title TBA

Wednesday, April 12, 2012, Noon
CogNS/CBMG talk, Tech L251 and Wieboldt 412
Kia Nobre, Oxford University
How Memory Shapes Perception

Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 4 PM
Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar / CogSci Seminar, Swift 107
Clifford Saron, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain
Intensive meditation practice: Longitudinal effects on perception, attention, emotion, and physiology

Winter/Spring 2011

Thursday, February 17, 2011, 4:00 PM
Cogsci colloquium, Swift Hall 107
Jeff Karpicke, Purdue University
Separate mnemonic effects of retrieval practice and elaborative encoding

Friday, February 25, 2011, 1:30 PM
NUIN colloquium, Swift Hall 107, videoconferenced from Chicago
Howard Eichenbaum, Boston University
Towards a Neurobiology of Recollection

Thursday, March 3, 2011, 4:00 PM
Psychology colloquium, Swift Hall 107
Ian Dobbins, Washington University
The benefits of biased memories

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 4:00 PM
Psychology colloquium, Swift Hall 107
Irv Biederman, University of Southern California

Thursday, April 21, 2011, 4:00 PM
12th Annual Carl P. Duncan Lecture in Memory Consolidation
Swift Hall 107
Yadin Dudai, Weizmann Institute

Thursday, May 5, 2011, 4:00 PM
Ward 5-230 (Chicago campus only)
Jim McGaugh, UC Irvine

Friday, May 13, 2011, 2:00 PM
Annual Data Blitz, Swift Hall 107
Order of Speakers:
- Todd Parrish (CAMRI): Center for Advanced MRI update
- Derin Cobia (Wang lab): The neurobiology of neuropsychologically defined Schizophrenia subtypes
- Julia Rao (Weintraub lab): Personality factors associated with preservation of episodic memory in SuperAging
- Hans Breiter (Breiter lab): Reward/aversion: its lawfulness, regulation, and clinical implications
- Rachel Bencic (Nusslock lab): ERPs as an index of reward sensitivity in individuals with bipolar disorder
- Eisha Wali (Thompson lab): Network modulation during complex syntactic processing
- Lisa Hechtman (Chiao lab): Dynamic cultural influences on neural response to emotional stimuli
- Jieun Kim (Wong lab): Sound category selectivity in the auditory cortex measured with high-resolution fMRI and multivariate analysis
- Rob Hurley (Mesulam lab): Crossmodal association in Primary Progressive Aphasia
- Jerome Prado (Booth lab): Neural efficiency underlies intra-individual variability in performance
- James Antony (Paller lab): Enhancing motor learning for a melodic sequence by re-playing the melody during sleep
- Danny Sanchez (Reber lab): Explicit knowledge influences consolidation but not immediate performance in implicit skill learning
- James Howard (Gottfried lab): Reward-related representations of natural food odor in the human brain
- Marcia Grabowecky (Suzuki/Grabowecky labs): Interactions of auditory amplitude-modulation rate and visual frequency in visual processing
The rest TBA:
- Yangqing Lucie Xu (Franconeri lab): Shifting selection may control apparent motion
- Xue Wang (Parrish lab): White matter microstructure changes induced by motor skill learning
- Matthew Schroeder (Wang lab): Functional connectivity of the hypothalamus in polycystic ovary syndrome, obese and lean controls