Monthly Archives: April 2013

Department of Psychology Colloquium Series “A Social Affective Neuroscience Perspective on Health Goals” Elliot Berkman, PhD University of Oregon Friday, April 26th, 2013 3:00 PM Martin Colloquium Center 4127 Sennott Square Abstract: Studies on health goals such as smoking cessation … Continue reading →

Rapid flexibility of the motor cortex in novel situations Marc H. Schieber, MD, PhD Professor Departments of Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Visual Sciences and Biomedical Engineering University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, NY … Continue reading →

The Cowan Young Investigator Lectures at CNBC Jessica Cantlon, Ph.D. Brain & Cognitive Sciences University of Rochester Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:00 pm Social Room, Mellon Institute Math, Monkeys, and the Developing Brain Thirty thousand years ago, humans kept track … Continue reading →

Believing and Time: A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making Michael Shadlen, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and HHMI Investigator Kavli Institute of Brain Science Department of Neuroscience Columbia University Thursday, April 4, 2013 4:00 p.m. 328 Mellon Institute

University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology Language for communication: Language comprehension and the communicative basis of word order Ted Gibson, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday, April 5th, 2013 3:00 PM Martin Colloquium Center 4127 Sennott Square Perhaps the most … Continue reading →