Seminar Series 2010
Simon Peter Kelly, Ph.D.
Columbia University, New York
Title: Attentional Selection: Fine Tailoring for Perceptual Decisions
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Time: 5pm
Juliana Britz, Ph.D.
Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Department of Fundamental NeuroscienceCentre Médical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland
Title: (Micro)-State Dependent Information Processing Assessed with Multistable Perception
Friday, April 23rd 2010
Time: 12pm
Noa Ofen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT
Title: "Maturity brings richer memories: The development of memory systems in the human brain"
Monday, May 17th 2010
Time: 11am
Clifford Saron, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist, The Center for Mind and Brain and M.I.N.D.
Institute at the University of California at Davis
Title: Training the Mind: Attention and emotion-regulation changes during the course of intensive meditation
Wednesday, May 19th 2010
Time: 12pm
Lucy Jane Miller
Executive Director, Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) Foundation
Director, Sensory Therapies And Research (STAR) Center
University of CO Denver, School of Medicine
Title: Sensory Processing Disorder: Myth or Reality
Monday June 28th, 2010
Time: 12pm
Prof. Hugh Garavan
School of Psychology & Institute of Neuroscience
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Title: The Neurobiology of Cognitive Control and its role in Addiction
Wednesday, July 15th, 2010
Time: 12pm
Prof. Frederick J. Morrison
Professor of Psychology,
Professor in the Combined Program in Education and Psychology and Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan
Title: Self-regulation in the transition to school
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Time: 12pm
Prof. Elyse Sussman
Departments of Neuroscience and Otorhinolaryngology (Head & Neck Surgery)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title: Auditory Attention: Effects of Temporal and Spatial Expectations
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Time: 10am
Brett S. Abrahams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Genetics and Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title:Glimpses into the Autism Spectrum Disorder
LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center, (Room 151)
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Time: 4pm
BJ Casey, Ph.D.
Director of the Sackler Institute, Center for Brain, Gene and Behavioral (CBGB) research across development and the Neuroscience Graduate Program Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Title: The Adaptive Function of Adolescent Brain Development
LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center, (Room 151)
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Time: 4pm,
Susan A. Slaugenhaupt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology (Genetics) Center for Human Genetic Research Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Title: Moving from Genes to Treatments: The Example of Familial Dysautonomia
LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center, (Room 151)
Monday, November 29, 2010
Time: 4pm