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NACS Seminars

Each seminar is one hour long, followed by a short discussion period and light luncheon. Room 1208 Biology-Psychology Building, 12 Noon.

Date Name General Topic
September 19, 2008 PAT LEVITT, PH.D. Where are we with the autisms?
September 25, 2008 Dr. HEY-KYOUNG LEE
September 26, 2008 REZA SHADMEHR, PH.D. A computational view of motor control and the timescales of memory
October 03, 2008 COLE GILBERT, PH.D.
October 10, 2008 JOHN GABRIELI, Ph.D. Development of memory systems of the human brain
October 17, 2008 MARTIN SARTER, Ph.D. Cholinergic regulation of attention
October 24, 2008 STEVE LOMBER, Ph.D.
October 31, 2008 ROBERT V. SHANNON, Ph.D. Electric stimulation of the human cochlea, cochlear nucleus and inferior colliculus: Implications for speech recognition
November 07, 2008 MATTHEW LIEBERMAN, Ph.D. Why putting feelings into words helps
November 21, 2008 JOHAN BOLHUIS, Ph.D.
December 05, 2008 DAN JOHNSTON, PH.D.
January 30, 2009 SILVIA BUNGE, Ph.D.
February 06, 2009 JOHN MAUNSELL, Ph.D. How attention alters sensory signals in the visual cerebral cortex of monkeys
February 13, 2009 MIKE MERZENICH, Ph.D.
February 20, 2009 LUCIANO FADIGA, Ph.D.
February 27, 2009 PETER NARINS, Ph.D. Ultrasonic sensitivity in an Old World frog: A neuroethological approach.
March 06, 2009 STEVEN WISE, Ph.D. Polar exploration: A surprising and surprisingly simple neurophysiological result from the monkey frontal pole
March 27, 2009
April 03, 2009 TATIANA PASTERNAK, Ph.D. What does prefrontal cortex "know" about visual motion used in discrimination tasks?
April 10, 2009 KEN NAKAYAMA, Ph.D.
April 17, 2009 LARRY YOUNG, Ph.D. Molecular neurobiology of social bonding
April 24, 2009 DANIEL SCHACTER, Ph.D. Constructive episodic simulation: Remembering the past to imagine the future
May 01, 2009 GYORGI BUZSAKI, Ph.D.
May 08, 2009 APOSTOLOS GEORGOPOULOS, Ph.D.

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