Distinguished Speaker Series Archives
2011-2012
William Labov, University of Pennsylvania. What is to be learned? [abstract]
Melvyn Goodale, The University of Western Ontario. The Neural Correlates of Echolocation in the Blind. [abstract]
James Allen, University of Rochester. Deep Language Understanding.
Adrian Owen, The University of Western Ontario. When Thoughts Become Actions: Imaging Disorders of Consciousness.
2010-2011
Linda Smith, Indiana University at Bloomington. Grounding toddler learning in sensory motor dynamics. [abstract]
Robert Zatorre, McGill University. Analysis of musical pitch: Functional pathways and structural correlates. [abstract]
Elizabeth Phelps, New York University. Changing fear. [abstract]
Edward Kravitz, Harvard University. Genetic manipulations in the fruit fly fight club: sex and war in a single gene and other stories. [abstract]
2009-2010
Dan Margoliash, University of Chicago. Sleep, learning, and birdsong. [abstract]
Frank Guenther, Boston University. The neural control of speech. [abstract]
Robert Goldstone, Indiana University at Bloomington. A well-grounded education: The role of perception in science and mathematics. [abstract]
Mary Ann Evans, University of Guelph. Developing an eye for print in emergent and beginning readers during shared book reading. [abstract]
Art Glenberg, Arizona State University. Knowing beans: Human mirror mechanisms revealed through motor adaptation. [abstract]
2008-2009
Gary L. Wells, Iowa State University. Mistaken Eyewitness Identification and False Confidence: The Creation of Distorted Retrospective Judgments. [abstract]
David Huron, Ohio State University. Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music That Makes Them Weep? [abstract]
Jerome Busemeyer, Indiana University. Quantum Information Processing Theory Applied to Cognitive Science. [abstract]
Jill deVilliers, Smith College. What's the use of language? [abstract]
Marvin Chun, Yale University. Imaging the Future. [abstract]
Rosalind Picard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Emotional Intelligence Technology and Autism. [abstract]
2007-2008
Robert Shannon, House Ear Institute. Electrical stimulation of the human cochlea, brainstem and midbrain: Implications for auditory perception and neuroscience. [abstract]
Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology. The Neurobiology of Consciousness. [abstract]
Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard University. Natural number and natural geometry. [abstract]
Julie Fiez, University of Pittsburgh. The brain and language: Contributions for neural systems that support learning. [abstract]
Peter Todd, Indiana University at Bloomington. Seeking and finding: Strategies for searching in space and in mind. [abstract]
2006-2007
David Sloan Wilson, SUNY Binghamton. Cognitive cooperation: When the going gets tough, think as a group. [abstract]
John Jonides, University of Michigan. Resolving interference in perception, memory, and action: A case study of imaged cognition. [abstract]
Kay Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When mind meets mouth. [abstract]
2005-2006
Peter Culicover, The Ohio State University. Why simpler syntax? [abstract]
David Poeppel, New York University. From Vibration In The Ear To Abstraction In The Head: A Brain's-Eye-View of Language. [abstract]
Marcia K. Johnson, Yale University. Using fMRI to Identify Neural Correlates of Component Processes of Cognition. [abstract]
Susan Lederman, Queen's University at Kingston. Feeling Objects, Feeling Faces. [abstract]
2004-2005
Sharon Oviatt, Oregon Health & Science University. Recent Progress in the Design of Advanced Multimodal Interfaces. [abstract]
Paul Bloom, Yale University. Bodies and Souls. [abstract]
Alex Kacelnik, Oxford University. Rationality and its Meanings. [abstract]
Randy Buckner, Washington University. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Memory . [abstract]
Andy Clark, The University of Edinburgh. Re-Inventing Ourselves: The Plasticity of Embodiment, Sensing and Mind. [abstract]
2003-2004
Daniel Schacter, Harvard University. The seven sins of memory: A cognitive neuroscience perspective. [abstract]
Mriganka Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rewiring Cortex: Plasticity and Specificity of Brain Representations. [abstract]
Sara Shettleworth, University of Toronto. Spatial Learning: Associations, Maps, or Modules? [abstract]
Gary Marcus, New York University. The Birth of the Mind: Genes, Neurons, and the Origins of Mental Life. [abstract]
Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania. Semantic Reference vs. Discourse Reference. [abstract]
William Marslen-Wilson, University of Cambridge, Language in the Mind and the Brain: Insights from the Past Tense. [abstract]
2002-2003
Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Structure and Memorization in Words: When to Look at the Brain. [abstract]
Keith Rayner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Eye movements and Cognitive Processes in Reading. [abstract]
Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago. Hearing Gestures: How our Hands Help us Think. [abstract]
B. J. Casey, Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Windows into the Developing Human Brain. [abstract]
Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute For Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. [abstract]
2001-2002
Sarah T. Boysen, The Ohio State University. Natural representational potential and cognitive flexibility in the chimpanzee.
Renee Baillargeon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The Acquisition of Physical Knowledge in Infancy.
Jeffrey Elman, University of California, San Diego. Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development.
Edward E. Smith, University of Michigan. Kinds of Executive Processing.
Morris Moscovitch, University of Toronto. Memory and the Brain: Studies from the Laboratory and Clinic.
2000-2001
Andrew G. Barto, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Learning to Exploit Dynamics in Motor Control. [abstract]
Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin. Smart Heuristics: Bounded rationality and the adaptive toolbox. [abstract]
Marc Raichle, Washington University. A Default State of the Brain. [abstract]
Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania. Does Language Affect the Way We Think? [abstract]
Michael F. Land, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. The Roles of Eye Movements in Everyday Life. [abstract]
