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Previous Cornell Psychology Events

-- 2009 --

    Colloquium: Friday, November 20, 2009
  • Infectious Disease, Adaptive Cognition, and the Creation of Culture
  • Mark Schaller
    Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, November 13, 2009
  • Missing Links and the Politics of Paleoneurology
  • Dean Falk
    Department of Anthropology, Florida State University
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
    **Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 6, 2009
  • Use of Gaze for Real-Time Mood Regulation: The Role of Age and Attentional Functioning
  • Derek M. Isaacowitz
    Department of Psychology, Brandeis University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, November 6, 2009
  • Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: The Benefits of Self-Regulation
  • Tom R. Tyler
    Department of Psychology, New York University
    **Co-sponsored with the Law, Psychology, and Human Development Program, the Department of Human Development, the Cornell Law School, and the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research
    ***Note special time and location***
  • G-87 MVR Hall: 2:15 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 30, 2009
  • The Psychology of Transcending the Present
  • Yaacov Trope
    Department of Psychology, New York University
    **Co-sponsored with the Department of Human Development
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 23, 2009
  • Emergence of Complex Communication from Simple Interactions: Lessons from Songbirds and Human Infants
  • Michael H. Goldstein
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, October 2, 2009
  • The Cognitive Zoo: Genomes, Brains, Computers, And Societies
  • David Krakauer
    Santa Fe Institute
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Monday, September 28, 2009
  • Family Stories and Adolescent Identity and Well-Being
  • Robyn Fivush
    Department of Psychology, Emory University
    **Co-sponsored with the Department of Human Development and
    The Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center
    ***Note special day and location***
  • 153 MVR Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, September 25, 2009
  • New Horizons in the Study of Language Acquisition
  • Deb Roy
    MIT Media Lab
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 18, 2009
  • The Neurobiology of Communication in Natural Settings
  • Jeremy I. Skipper
    Sakler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology,
    Weill Medical College of Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 11, 2009
  • Natural Systems Analysis of Fixation Search
  • Wilson S. Geisler
    Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 4, 2009
  • Sleep and the Development of Body, Brain, and Behavior
  • Mark S. Blumberg
    Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Sunday, May 24, 2009
  • Cornell Psychology Commencement Ceremony
  • G01 Uris Hall
    This commencement follows after the University Commencement. Each graduate is limited to 3 guests. Note to Graduating Psychology Majors (only): Please respond by May 6, 2009 to guarantee your reserved seating to Lisa Proper. Diplomas will be awarded promptly at 12:30pm. See Psych Commencement for details.
  • G01 Uris Hall: 12:00 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, May 1, 2009
  • New Dimensions in Nutritional Ecology: From Insects to Humans
  • David Raubenheimer
    Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, April 24, 2009
  • How Race Alters Perception of People, Places, and Things
  • Jennifer L. Eberhardt
    Department of Psychology, Stanford University
    **Co-sponsored with the Law, Psychology, Human Development Ph.D. Program
    ***Note special location***
  • 114 MVR Hall: 2:15 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 17, 2009
  • The Psychology of Transcending the Present
  • ***CANCELLED***Yaacov Trope
    Department of Psychology, New York University
  • Cancelled: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 10, 2009
  • TBA
  • ***CANCELLED***James V. Haxby
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
  • Cancelled: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Tuesday, March 31, 2009
  • Collaboration and Communication in Children and Chimpanzees
  • Michael Tomasello
    Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
    Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
    The Eleanor J. Gibson and James J. Gibson
    Lecture in Experimental Psychology

    ***Note special time and location***
  • Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall: 4:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 27, 2009
  • Bird Song Learning is a Social Process
  • Michael D. Beecher
    Department of Psychology, University of Washington
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, March 27, 2009
  • Mistaken Eyewitness Identification and False Confidence: The Creation of Distorted Retrospective Judgment
  • Gary L. Wells
    Department of Psychology, Iowa State University
    **Co-sponsored with the Law, Psychology, Human Development Ph.D. Program
    ***Note special location***
  • 114 MVR Hall: 2:15 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 6, 2009
  • Neuropsychology of Spatial Thought and Language
  • Anjan Chatterjee
    Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 27, 2009
  • The (Surprising?) Effects of Experience on the Development of Multisensory Perception in Humans and Other Primates
  • David J. Lewkowicz
    Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 20, 2009
  • Early Categorization: What is the Mechanism and What Develops?
  • Vladimir M. Sloutsky
    Department of Psychology, Ohio State University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Science Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, February 6, 2009
  • Dependency Grammar in a Computational Model of Human Sentence Parsing
  • John T. Hale
    Department of Linguistics, Cornell University
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

-- 2008 --

    Colloquium: Friday, December 5, 2008
  • Top-Down Predictions in Visual Cognition
  • Moshe Bar
    Department of Radiology-Massachusetts General Hospital
    Harvard Medical School
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 21, 2008
  • The Selfish Goal
  • John A. Bargh
    Department of Psychology, Yale University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Monday, November 10, 2008
  • Language Evolution in the Lab: From Models to Experiments in Evolutionary Linguistics
  • Simon Kirby
    Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit
    School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
    University of Edinburgh
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
  • 202 Uris Hall: 4:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 7, 2008
  • Birds of a Feather: Evolving Sociality and the Social Brain
  • James L. Goodson
    Department of Biology, Indiana University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • Learning and Limits on Plasticity for Language
  • Jason Zevin
    Sakler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology,
    Weill Medical College of Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 24, 2008
  • Behavioral and Neurophysiological Mechanisms for Temporal Pattern Recognition and Rule Learning in Acoustic Communication
  • Timothy Q. Gentner
    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 3, 2008
  • Placebo Effects in Pain: A Window into the Cognitive Regulation of Affect
  • Tor D. Wager
    Department of Psychology, Columbia University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • An Optimistic Defense of Free-Will Skepticism
  • Derk Pereboom
    Department of Philosophy, Cornell University
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 19, 2008
  • How to Study Normal and Autistic Cognitive Variation by Playing Lots of Video Games
  • Matthew K. Belmonte
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 12, 2008
  • Departures from Rational Choice: With and Without Regret
  • Robert H. Frank
    Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 5, 2008
  • Computational Cognitive Linguistics, Episode IV: A New Hope
  • Shimon Edelman
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 25, 2008
  • Title TBA
  • ***CANCELLED***Randy O'Reilly
    University of Colorado
  • Cancelled: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 18, 2008
  • Stereotyping in Social Perception and Judgment: The Case of Complex and Ambiguous Target Identities
  • Galen V. Bodenhausen
    Northwestern University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 11, 2008
  • Spatial Language and Infants' Spatial Categorization
  • Marianella Casasola
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 4, 2008
  • Positive Emotions Broaden Minds and Build Resources
  • Barbara L. Fredrickson
    University of North Carolina
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 28, 2008
  • Person Perception as Socially Situated Cognition: Contextualizing Person Perception Processes
  • Eliot R. Smith
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 7, 2008
  • Hormone Dynamic Indices as a Link Between Behaviour, the Environment, and the Endocrine System
  • ***CANCELLED***Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards
    Department of Biology, Queen's University
  • Cancelled due to illness: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, February 29, 2008
  • On What We Do With What You Do
  • Tamar Szabo Gendler
    Department of Philosophy, Yale University
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 22, 2008
  • Time and the Brain
  • David M. Eagleman
    Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
    **Co-sponsored with the Cornell Program in Neuroscience
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 8, 2008
  • Explanations for Everything: The Value of Cognitive Analyses of Judgments and Decisions
  • Reid Hastie
    Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
    **Co-sponsored with the Department of Human Development and the Cornell Law School
    ***Note special location***
  • 153 MVR Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 1, 2008
  • Inhabiting Neural Reality: On the Function and Brain Mechanisms of Consciousness
  • Bjorn Merker
    Institute for Biomusicology, Mid Sweden University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, January 25, 2008
  • Continuous Temporal Dynamics in Real-Time Cognition
  • Michael J. Spivey
    Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science Program, Cornell University
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

-- 2007 --

    Colloquium: Friday, November 30, 2007
  • Levels of Representation in Phonology and the Lexicon: Evidence from English Homophones
  • Abigail C. Cohn
    Department of Linguistics, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 16, 2007
  • On, En or Auf?: Spatial Language and Infants' Spatial Categorization
  • ***CANCELLED*** Marianella Casasola
    Rescheduled to April 11, 2008
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 9, 2007
  • Roots of Infant Behavior: Probing the Fetal and Newborn Brain
  • William P. Fifer
    Division of Developmental Psychobiology, Columbia University
    **Co-sponsored with the Department of Human Development
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, November 2, 2007
  • Optimal Language Production: Uniform Information Density
  • T. Florian Jaeger
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, University of Rochester
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
    **Co-sponsored with the Department of Linguistics
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 26, 2007
  • Visual Encoding and Decoding of Natural Scenes
  • Jack L. Gallant
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
  • Ethnic and Class Disparities in School Readiness: Closing the Gap
  • Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
    National Center for Children & Families, Columbia University
    The Department of Human Development
    Ricciuti Lecture
  • G73 MVR Hall: 4:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, October 19, 2007
  • Hearing Patterns in Speech: How Infants Learn to Listen for Meaning
  • Anne Fernald
    Department of Psychology, Stanford University
    The Eleanor J. Gibson and James J. Gibson
    Lecture in Experimental Psychology

    ***Note special time and location***
  • Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall: 4:00 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, October 12, 2007
  • What do Robots Dream of? Emergent Self-Models in Machine Minds
  • Hod Lipson
    Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 5, 2007
  • On Implicit Evaluation
  • Melissa J. Ferguson
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 28, 2007
  • A Constructionist Approach to Language
  • Adele Goldberg
    Program in Linguistics, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 21, 2007
  • Confirmation Bias and Prosecutorial Decisions
  • Phoebe Ellsworth
    University of Michigan Law School
    **Co-sponsored with the Department of Human Development
    ***Note special location***
  • Rushmore Conference Room, 114 MVR Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 14, 2007
  • What is an Emotion?
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett
    Department of Psychology, Boston College
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 7, 2007
  • Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Retroactive Influence on Affective Preferences and Free Recalls
  • Daryl J. Bem
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, August 31, 2007
  • Form and Function in Facial Expression
  • ***CANCELLED***Adam K. Anderson
    Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
  • New date TBA: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, May 4, 2007
  • The 'Chick-a-dee' Language
  • Jeffrey R. Lucas
    Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 27, 2007
  • Modulation of Testosterone Levels During Development and Adulthood: Implications for Future Aggression Levels
  • Catherine A. Marler
    Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 20, 2007
  • Information Theoretic Models of Auditory Coding
  • Michael S. Lewicki
    Computer Science Department and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition,
    Carnegie Mellon University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Science Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, April 13, 2007
  • Modules, Genes and Evolution: What Have We Learned from Developmental Disorders?
  • Annette D. Karmiloff-Smith
    Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London
    The Eleanor J. Gibson and James J. Gibson
    Lecture in Experimental Psychology

    ***Note special time and location***
  • 165 McGraw Hall: 4:00 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, April 6, 2007
  • Where Action Meets Words: The Paradox of Early Verb Learning
  • Roberta M. Golinkoff
    School of Education, University of Delaware
    Cognitive Science Colloquium
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 30, 2007
  • Memory Coding in the Mammalian Brain
  • Matthew Shapiro
    Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 9, 2007
  • On (not) Getting Caught in Peculiar Positions: Molecular Variation and the Evolution of Mammalian Monogamy
  • Steven M. Phelps
    Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 2, 2007
  • Why We Trust: Evidence from Behavioral Economic Games
  • David A. Dunning
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 23, 2007
  • The Brain as a Complex System: Connectivity, Dynamics, and Embodiment
  • Olaf Sporns
    Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Indiana University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Science Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 9, 2007
  • Voluntary Settlement and the Spirit of Independence: Evidence from Japan's 'Northern Frontier'
  • Shinobu Kitayama
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 2, 2007
  • Learning to Smell: Cortical Contributions to Odor Perception
  • Donald A. Wilson
    Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

-- 2006 --

    Colloquium: Friday, December 1, 2006
  • Collective Intelligence?
  • Alex (Sandy) Pentland
    Program in Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Science Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 10, 2006
  • Autism Endophenotypes from Neurophysiology to Behaviour
  • Matthew K. Belmonte
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 3, 2006
  • Body, Brain, and Eyes: The Dynamics of Free Looking in Young Infants
  • Steven S. Robertson
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, October 27, 2006
  • Discrete Thoughts: Why Cognition Must Use Discrete Representations
  • Eric Dietrich
    Philosophy Department, Binghamton University
    Cognitive Studies Seminar
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 20, 2006
  • Walking Robots and Animals: Some Mechanics Perspectives
  • Andy L. Ruina
    Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Friday, October 13, 2006
  • Space Constancy, Gist and Change Blindness
  • Bruce Bridgeman
    Psychology and Psychobiology, UC-Santa Cruz
    Cognitive Studies Seminar
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 6, 2006
  • The Development of Face Interpretation: Typical and Adverse Rearing Environments
  • Nim Tottenham
    Sackler Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 29, 2006
  • Encoding and Retrieving Syntax with Prosody
  • Michael Wagner
    Department of Linguistics, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 22, 2006
  • Looking at Others: Fear, Faces, and the Human Amygdala
  • Ralph Adolphs
    Department of Neurology, The University of Iowa College of Medicine,
    and Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
    **Co-sponsored with the Program in Neuroscience
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 8, 2006
  • Adaptive Combination of Spatial Information
  • Nora S. Newcombe
    Department of Psychology, Temple University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Science Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 1, 2006
  • The Positive Side of Aging: Changes in Emotion-Cognition Interactions Across the Lifespan
  • Joseph A. Mikels
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Saturday, May 6, 2006
  • May 6-7, 2006
  • Perception & Action Symposium
    Presented by the Cognitive Science Program
    For times and pre-registration information go to:
  • http://www.cogstud.cornell.edu/events.php
  • Morison Room/Atrium, Corson-Mudd Hall: 9:00 am

    Colloquium: Thursday, May 4, 2006
  • Motivated Memory: Neurobiological Mechanisms and Clinical Implications
  • R. Alison Adock
    University of California/San Francisco and Stanford University
    ***Note special day and time***
  • 202 Uris Hall: 4:35 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 28, 2006
  • Self-Control, Decision Making, and Depleted Resources: Free Will as the Expensive Way Of Choosing and Acting
  • Roy Baumeister
    Department of Psychology, Florida State University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, April 14, 2006
  • The Mind at 4
  • Marc Bornstein
    The National Institutes of Health
    The Eleanor J. Gibson and James J. Gibson
    Lecture in Experimental Psychology

    ***Note special time and location***
  • Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall: 4:00 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 7, 2006
  • The DCDC2 Gene: Dyslexia and Neuronal Development
  • Jeffrey R. Gruen
    Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 31, 2006
  • When Language Disrupts Affect: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
  • Matthew D. Lieberman
    Department of Psychology, UCLA
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Psychology Related Talk: Thursday, March 16, 2006
  • The Mentally Disabled Offender, Myths and Misconceptions
  • Hal Smith
    The Cornell Union for Disabilities Awareness and Cornell Minds Matter present Hal Smith MPS, CCHP (Certified Correctional Healthcare Professional), an adjunct professor at Syracuse University Law School, to address issues concerning people with mental disabilities in prisons.
    This program is open to the Cornell Community and is funded in part through SAFC and Alice Cook House.
  • Kaufman Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall: 5:00 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 10, 2006
  • Color and Psychological Response
  • Andrew J. Elliot
    Department of Clinical and Social Psychology, University of Rochester
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 24, 2006
  • Perceiving Persisting Objects
  • Brian Scholl
    Department of Psychology, Yale University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 10, 2006
  • The Always Neglected, All-Essential Ingredient of Language Acquisition and Processing
  • Catherine L. Harris
    Department of Psychology, Boston University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

-- 2005 --

    Colloquium: Friday, December 2, 2005
  • Starting Over: International Adoption as a Natural Experiment in Language Acquisition
  • Jesse Snedeker
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 18, 2005
  • Speech, Melodies and Invaders from Space: The Formation and Tuning of Auditory Categories
  • Lori L. Holt
    Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 4, 2005
  • Neuronal Processing of Natural Scenes in Visual Cortex
  • Charles Gray
    Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Montana State University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 28, 2005
  • The Origins and Evolution of Play: New Approaches To an Enduring Enigma
  • Gordon M. Burghardt
    Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 21, 2005
  • Brain Mechanisms Visual Word Reading: Development and Disability
  • Bruce McCandliss
    Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 7, 2005
  • Infant Vocal Development as a Guide in Speculations About the Evolution of Language
  • D. Kimbrough Oller
    School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Memphis
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 30, 2005
  • Interference in Memory and Reasoning: Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, and Development
  • Valerie Reyna
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 23, 2005
  • Phantom Recollection
  • Charles J. Brainerd
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, May 13, 2005
  • Sound Advice in Language Acquisition and Processing: The Importance of Phonology in the Acquisition and Processing of Syntax
  • Morten H. Christiansen
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, April 29, 2005
  • Shape, Pretend, Play, and the Learning of Object Names
  • Linda B. Smith
    Department of Psychology, Indiana University
    The Eleanor J. Gibson and James J. Gibson
    Lecture in Experimental Psychology

    ***Note special time and location***
  • 251 Malott Hall: 4:00 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 15, 2005
  • Convergent Evolution of Brains and Cognition
  • Louis Lefebvre
    Department of Biology, McGill University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 1, 2005
  • Affective Forecasting and the Pleasures of Uncertainty
  • Timothy D. Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 11, 2005
  • High Level Visual Adaptation of Faces: The Role of Shape and Surface Reflectance in View-Invariant Representations
  • Alice J. O'Toole
    School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 4, 2005
  • System Justifying Effects of Complementary Gender and Status Stereotypes
  • John T. Jost
    Department of Psychology, New York University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 18, 2005
  • Speech Errors and Aphasia: Testing Freud's Continuity Thesis
  • Gary S. Dell
    Department of Psychology, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

-- 2004 --

    Colloquium: Friday, December 3, 2004
  • Bodies and Souls
  • Paul Bloom
    Department of Psychology, Yale University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, November 19, 2004
  • Interpersonal Pathoplasticity in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Aaron L. Pincus
    Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University
    The Jack Catlin Memorial Lecture
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 12, 2004
  • Disrupting the Brain to Improve Behavior
  • Alvaro Pascual-Leone
    Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 5, 2004
  • From Brain Reading to Mind Reading: fMRI Studies of Subjective Perceptual Experience
  • Frank Tong
    Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 22, 2004
  • The Perception of Flavor Chemicals
  • Terry E. Acree
    Department of Food Science and Technology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 15, 2004
  • Precognitive Habituation: Evidence for Anomalous Processes of Affect and Cognition
  • Daryl J. Bem
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 1, 2004
  • Establishing and Maintaining an Artistic Canon: The Roles of Dealers, Collectors, Museums, Curators, Scholars, and the Public
  • James E. Cutting
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 17, 2004
  • How What You Sing Influences What You Hear: Motor-auditory Interactions in the Songbird
  • Richard D. Mooney
    Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Thursday, September 16, 2004
  • Shedding some Light on Brightness Perception
  • Al Seckel
    California Institute of Technology
    **Co-sponsored with the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior
    ***Note special time and location***
  • Morison Room, Corson-Mudd Hall: 12:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, May 7, 2004
  • A Data-Acquisition Model for Learning and Cognitive Development and Its Implications for Autism
  • Joseph. Y. Halpern
    Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 30, 2004
  • Ecological Control
  • Andy Clark
    Department of Philosophy, Indiana University
    **Co-sponsored with the Cognitive Studies Program
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, April 23, 2004
  • The Relational Self
  • Susan M. Andersen
    Department of Psychology, New York University
    The Jack Catlin Memorial Lecture
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 16, 2004
  • Working Memory in Production of Music and Speech
  • Caroline M. Palmer
    Department of Psychology, McGill University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 9, 2004
  • Learning and Generalization: Lessons from the Neural Networks
  • Jeffrey L. Elman
    Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 12, 2004
  • Brain Imaging Evidence of Adaptation to Blindness
  • Harold Burton
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University at St. Louis
    ***NOTE SPECIAL TIME***
  • 202 Uris Hall: 12:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 27, 2004
  • Maintaining a Competitive Edge: The Role of Learning in Food Competition
  • Karen Hollis
    Department of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 20, 2004
  • Associations Are Never Free: Tracking Cognitive Development and the Imagination through the Empirical Coding of Narrative
  • Harry G. Segal
    Departments of Human Development and Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 13, 2004
  • How Children Learn Language: Resolution of the Poverty of the Stimulus Problem
  • Mark S. Seidenberg
    Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

-- 2003 --

    Colloquium: Friday, December 5, 2003
  • Spatial Cognition and Memory in Symbol-Using Chimpanzees
  • Charles F. Menzel
    Arts and Sciences Language Center, Georgia State University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 14, 2003
  • Somatosensory and Motor Dysfunction: Pursuing Endophenotypes for Schizophrenia Liability
  • Mark F. Lenzenweger
    Department of Psychology, Binghamton University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 24, 2003
  • The Genetics of Language Impairment: An Examination of the Data and Their (Mis)Interpretation
  • J. Bruce Tomblin
    Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Saturday, October 18, 2003
  • Further Developments:
  • A Symposium Dedicated to Eleanor J. Gibson
    Featured Speakers, Presentations and Posters
    9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
  • http://susan.psych.cornell.edu/EJgibson
  • : 9:00 am

    Colloquium: Friday, October 3, 2003
  • Feature Integration
  • Denis Pelli
    Department of Psychology, New York University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 19, 2003
  • When Rejection Stings: The Situational Regulation of Felt Security
  • Sandra Murray
    Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, April 18, 2003
  • The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: Behavior: Neurophysiology and the Adolescent Brain
  • Abigail Baird
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
    The Jack Catlin Memorial Lecture
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, April 4, 2003
  • Minds, Brains, and Person Perception
  • C. Neil Macrae
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, March 28, 2003
  • Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach
  • James L. McClelland
    Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 28, 2003
  • Perception-Action Foundations of Tool Use in Primates
  • Dorothy M. Fragaszy
    Department of Psychology, University of Georgia
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 14, 2003
  • View from the Cockpit of a Fly
  • Cole Gilbert
    Department of Entomology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, February 7, 2003
  • Windows into the Developing Human Brain
  • B. J. Casey
    Department of Psychology, Princeton University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, January 31, 2003
  • Genetic Approaches to Behavioral Studies
  • Emilie Rissman
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, January 24, 2003
  • Egocentric Perspective Taking
  • Boaz Keysar
    Department of Psychology, University of Chicago
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

-- 2002 --

    Colloquium: Friday, December 6, 2002
  • Regulation of Dendritic Patterning by Neural Activity
  • Rachel O. L. Wong
    Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 22, 2002
  • The Development of Space Perception: How Does the Visual World of the Infant Change Over the First 7 Months of Life?
  • Albert Yonas
    Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 15, 2002
  • Sexual Differentiation of Olfactory Function
  • Michael J. Baum
    Department of Biology, Boston University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 8, 2002
  • The Role of General Cognitive Processes in the Early Comprehension of Language
  • Marianella Casasola
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, November 1, 2002
  • Fanning the Flames: The Impact of Rumination on Depression
  • Susan K. Nolen-Hoeksema
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 25, 2002
  • The Relation of Intention to Action: Prefrontal Cortex and Early Cognitive Development, II
  • Adele Diamond
    University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 18, 2002
  • Bayesian Models of Human Learning and Reasoning
  • Joshua B. Tenenbaum
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Other Psychology Event: Friday, October 11, 2002
  • Perceiving Spatial Layout: The Role of Effort and Intent
  • Dennis R. Proffitt
    Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
    The James J. Gibson Lecture in Experimental Psychology

    ***Note special time and location***
  • Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall: 4:00 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, October 4, 2002
  • Dynamically Guided Learning
  • Rebecca Gomez
    Department of Psychology, University of Arizona
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 27, 2002
  • Plasticity and Nativism: Towards a Resolution of an Apparent Paradox
  • Gary Marcus
    Department of Biology, New York University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 20, 2002
  • Self-Theories: New Findings on Achievement, Self-Esteem, and Depression
  • Carol S. Dweck
    Department of Psychology, Columbia University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 13, 2002
  • Mechanisms of Concept Learning and Representation
  • Kenneth Kurtz
    Department of Psychology, Binghamton University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, September 6, 2002
  • The Origin of Concepts
  • Susan Carey
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm

    Colloquium: Friday, August 30, 2002
  • Sound Matters: Structure and Function in Nonlinguistic Vocal Acoustic
  • Michael J. Owren
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University
  • 202 Uris Hall: 3:30 pm