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Vision Science Research Guest Speakers
Date
Upcoming Speakers
TBA
TBA
Date
Past Speakers
May 20, 2009
Mary Hayhoe, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin

What guides visual attention and working memory
in natural environments?
March 16, 2009
Michael Goldberg, MD
David Mahoney Professor of
Brain and Behavior in the Departments of
Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry and Ophthalmology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

On the agonosticism of spikes: saccades, attention
and priority in the parietal cortex.
October 15, 2008
Andrew Hollingworth, Ph.D
Department of Psychology
The University of Iowa

The Role of Visual Working Memory in
Establishing Object Correspondence
Across Saccades and Brief Occlusion
October 3, 2008
Tatiana Pasternak, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
University of Rochester

What does prefrontal cortex "know" about
visual motion used in discrimination tasks?
Jan.30, 2008
Julia Martinez Trujillo
Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience
Assistant Professor Department of Physiology
McGill University

Mechanisms of Attentional Modulation of
Single Cell Responses in Visual Cortex
Dec. 3, 2007
Anne K. Churchland
University of Washington
Physiology & Biophysics

Tough choices: Decision-making with more
than 2 alternatives
Nov. 28, 2007
Melanie Wilke
NIMH, UCNI

The role of the subcortical nuclei in
visual processing and awareness
Oct. 1, 2007
Nicole Rust
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The mechanisms underlying motion pattern invariance in area MT
.

Neuroscience "Brown Bag" Seminar Series Fall 2009
Room 316, Wilson Hall
Thursdays, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Date
Speaker
Sept. 3
Rob Friedman, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Sept. 10
Tong Lab
Dept. of Psychology
Sept. 17
Gopathy Purushothaman, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychology
Casagrande Lab
Sept. 24
Jascha Swisher, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Tong Lab
Oct. 1
David Godlove
Dept. of Psychology
Schall lab
Oct. 8
Marois Lab
Dept. of Psychology
Oct. 15
Christine Collins, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Oct. 22
No Seminar
SFN
Oct. 29
Roan Marion
Dept. of Psychology
Casagrande Lab
Nov. 5
Jeremiah Cohen
Dept. of Psychology
Schall Lab
Nov. 12
Whitney Cleghorn
Dept. of Psychology
Gurevich Lab
Nov. 19
Matt Nelson
Dept. of Psychology
Schall Lab
Nov. 26
No Seminar
Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 3
Omar Gharbawie, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Kaas Lab
Dec. 10
John Kaas Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Dec. 17
Hisashi Tanigawa, Ph. D
Dept. of Psychology
Roe Lab
Seminars



Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium Series Spring 2009
Mayborn 204
Fridays, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Date
Speaker
Friday January 16, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
Bethany Rittle-Johnson, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Dept of Psychology & Human Development

"Mathematical problem solving: Establishing a bridge
between cognitive science and education"
Friday, January 23, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
Amy Needham, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Dept of Psychology & Human Development

"Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy"
Friday, January 30, 2009
4:10 PM
Location TBA
Tom James
Indiana University
Department of Psychology

Winner of the Randolph Blake Early Career Award
Friday, February 6, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
Bruce McCandliss, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Dept of Psychology & Human Development

Title TBA
Friday, February 13, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
Bruce McCandliss, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Dept of Psychology & Human Development

Title TBA
Friday, February 20, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
Edward Hubbard, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Dept of Psychology & Human Development

"Neural mechanisms underlying mapping
between numbers and space"
Friday, February 27, 2009
Frank Tong, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Department of Psychology

"Neural decoding of visual and mental states"
Friday, March 6, 2009
Spring Break
Friday, March 13, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
Mike Mack

Title TBA
Friday, March 20, 2009
Mayborn 2004
4-5pm
Yetta Wong

Title TBA
Friday, March 27, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
Rebecca St Clair

Title TBA
Friday, April 3, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
TBA
Friday, April 10, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
TBA
Friday, April 17, 2009
Mayborn 204
4-5pm
Rijuta Pandav

Title TBA



Clinical "Brown Bag" Series Fall 2009
Wilson Hall, room 316
Tuesdays, 12:10 - 1:00 p.m.

Date Speaker
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
CICN Special Seminar
Date
Speaker
Graduate Neuroscience Seminar Series
Thursday, June 25, 2009
4:00 p.m.
115 Wilson Hall
David Alais, Ph.D.
School of Psychology
University of Sydney, Australia

Human time perception in audition and vision:
how many clocks, and how precise? An equivalent noise analysis.

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