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 Department & Affiliated Colloquia
September 2008
9/4/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
100 Genetics & Plant Biology Bldg. Sister Chromatid Cohesion: A Simple Concept with a Complex Reality
Douglas Koshland, Carnegie Institution, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (MCB)
9/8/2008
4:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Untangling the Effects of Divided and Selective Attention in Multi-Talker Listening Communication Disorders and Sciences
Valeriy Shafiro - Rush University Medical Center, Chicago - (Ear Club)
9/9/2008
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

101 LSA

Inducing the Cell Fates Required for Immunity
Steven Reiner - University of Pennsylvania (MCB)
9/10/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
101 LSA A Rho GTPase Signal Treadmill Backs a Contractile Array
William Bement - University of Wisconsin-Madison (MCB)
9/11/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

101 Barker Hall

High Efficiency Gene Targeting with Zinc-Finger Nucleases
Dana Carroll - University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry (MCB)
9/12/2008
11:00 AM -12:30 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Toward Human Level Machine Intelligence—Is It Possible? The Need for a Paradigm Shift
Lotfi Zadeh - Department of EECS, UC Berkeley (HWNI)
9/12/2008
12:30 PM -1:30 PM
101 LSA Smell: From Body Order to Insect Repellants
Leslie Vosshall - The Rockefeller University (MCB)
9/12/2008
4:00 PM
489 Minor Hall A Three-Dimensional Space-Time Model of MT Neurons that Predicts Responses to Natural Movies
Shinji Nishimoto, Post-Doctoral Researcher - UC Berkeley - Hosted by Oxyopia
9/13/2008
8:30 AM -4:30 PM
489 Minor Hall
(Vision Science)
Bay Area Vision Research Day: Vision Related Research In Psychophysics, Neuroscience, Biology and Computer Vision
9/15/2008
4:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Acoustic Communication in Constraining Environments: How Do Songbirds Deal with Dense Vegetation?
Nicolas Mathevon - Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France | Miller Professor, UC Berkeley
9/15/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Aberdahl Auditorium,
105 Stanley Hall(MCB)
The Carboxysome and Related Microcompartments: The Emerging Structure of Protein-Based Organelles in Bacteria
Todd Yeates, Chemistry and Biology - UCLA
9/15/2008
4:00 PM  - 5:30 PM
182 Dwinelle Hall (Linguistics) Language Acquisition and the Poverty of the Stimulus
Terry Regier - University of Chicago
9/16/2008
12:30 PM -1:30 PM
101 LSA Impact of Type I Interferon Induction Pathways on Anti-Bacterial, Inflammatory Responses and Host Metabolisms
Genhong Cheng, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics - UCLA
9/17/2008
12:00 PM 
508-20 Evans Hall Time and Visual Computation: How Precision is Generated in the Visual Pathway
Dan Butts - Weill Medical College, Cornell University
9/18/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
101 Barker Hall Co-opting RNA Polymerases for Evolution and Development
Jay Hollick - Plant and Microbial Biology, UCB
9/19/2008 12:30 PM -1:30 PM 5101 Tolman Hall Molecular Mechanisms of Innate Behavior; Why Males Fight When Females Relax
Lisa Stowers - Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute (ICBS)
9/19/2008
4:00 PM
489 Minor Hall Predictive Cues in Visual Search: Optimal Bayesian Observers, Neurons and Sardines
Miguel Eckstein - Psychology, UC Santa Barbara (OXYOPIA, Host: Michael Silver)
9/22/2008 12:00 PM -2:00 PM 3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Second-Year Project Presentations
(Psychology 249 Colloquium)
9/22/2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Blumer Room 402, Barrows Hall (Sociology) Socioeconomic Disparities Affect Prefrontal Function in Children
Mark Kishiyama - UC Berkeley (HWNI)
9/22/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall (MCB) Dynamics of Translation
Joseph Puglisi - Structural Biology, Stanford School of Medicine
9/23/2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Assessing Hypersomnia in Interepisode Bipolar Disorder: How Much Is Too Much Sleep?
Katherine Kaplan - UC Berkeley (Student Presentation)
9/23/2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Affective and Behavioral Consequences of Sleep Deprivation in Adolescents
Eleanor McGlinchey - UC Berkeley (Student Presentation)
9/24/2008
12:00 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Attitudes in Their Social Context: Malleability, Stability, and the Role of Construal
Alison Ledgewood - UC Davis (IPSR)
9/24/2008
12:00 PM -1:00 PM
101 Barker Hall Making Viruses Work For Us
Seung-Wuk Lee - Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
9/24/2008
12:00 PM
508-20 Evans Hall Dimensional Reduction in Motor Patterns for Balance Control
Lena H. Ting -  Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, and Fall 2008 Visiting Miller Professor (HWNI)
9/24/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
2050 Valley Life Science Building Mechanisms of Cell Transformation
Robert A. Weinberg - Department of Biology, MIT/Whitehead Institute
9/24/2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
2515 Tolman Hall
(*Informal Reception @ 5:30)
Parent-Adolescent Academic Values Transmission - (Human Development Speaker Series)
Jacqueline Eccles - University of Michigan
Burkhard Gniewosz - University of Wuerzburg, Germany
9/25/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
100 Genetics and Plant Biology Building Mechanisms of Malignant Progression
Robert A. Weinberg - Department of Biology, MIT/Whitehead Institute
9/26/2008
12:30 PM -1:30 PM
101 LSA Hippocampal Memory Reactivation During Awake and Sleep States
Matthew Wilson - MIT (HWNI)
9/26/2008
4:00 PM -5:30 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Episodic Memory Encoding and Retrieval: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Mick Rugg - Center for the Neurobiology or Learning and Memory, UC Irvine (ICBS)
9/29/2008
4:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
The Incongruency Advantage for Environmental in Naturally-Occurring Scenes
Bryan Gygi - V.A. Medical Research, Martinez, CA (Ear Club)
October 2008
10/1/2008
12:00 PM
508-20 Evans Hall Towards a Cortical Microcircuit Model that Integrates Invariant Recognition, Temporal Inference and Attention
Dileep George - Numentar (HWNI)
10/3/2008
 2:00 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Friendship in the Rodent Brain; Neuroendocrinology of Same-Sex Affiliate Behavior
Annalise Beery - Thesis Seminar, UC Berkeley (Zucker Lab)
10/3/2008
4:00 PM
489 Minor Hall Object Motion Sensitivity and Adaptation in Retinal Circuitry
Stephen Baccus - Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine (HWNI)
10/6/2008
12:00 PM -2:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Cortical Plasticity in Young and Adult Brains
Michael Merzenich - UCSF (CPD)
10/6/2008
4:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Targeting Areas Beyond AI: A Method and Implications for Studying Higher Auditory Processing
Poppy Crum - Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (Ear Club)
10/7/2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Liking Yourself or Being Liked: Which Is More Important in Relation to Adolescent Outcomes in Girls?
Erika Swanson - UC Berkeley (Student Presentation)
10/8/2008
12:00 PM -1:15 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Latent Ability: Evidence that Grades and Test Scores Systematically Underestimate the Intellectual Ability of Negatively Stereotyped Students
Greg Walton - Stanford University (IPSR)
10/8/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
101 LSA Of Flies and Mice: What Have Flies Taught Us About Drug Addiction?
Ulrike Heberiein - Anatomy, UC San Francisco (MCB)
10/10/2008
11:00 AM -12:30 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Pronunciation Variation as a Tool for Psycholinquistic Research
Susanne Gahl - Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program, UC Berkeley (ICBS)
10/10/2008
12:30PM - 2:00 PM
1111 Tolman Hall Policy Context and Private Behavior: Challenges in Policy Research
Jane Maulden - Public Policy, UC Berkeley (IHD)
10/10/ - 10/12/2008 Granlibbaken, Tahoe Neuroscience Retreat (HWNI)
 
10/13/2008
1:00PM
210 Barker Hall (Knight Lab) Single-Neuron Activity in the Human Hippocampus and Amygdala During Learning and Retrieval of Declarative Memories
Ueli Rutishauser - Computation and Neural Systems, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
10/13/2008
4:00PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Spectral and Temporal Modulations Required for Speech Comprehension
Taffeta Elliott - Bird Song Lab, Psychology, UC Berkeley (Ear Club)
10/14/2008
12:00PM
508-20 Evans Hall TBA
Jim Crutchfield - UC Davis
10/17/2008
12:30 PM -1:30 PM
101 LSA Cellular Substrates of Memory in the Cerebellum
David Lindon - Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University (Neurobiology & HWNI)
10/20/2008
12:00 PM -2:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall When Does Vision Begin? The Development of Functional Retinal Circuits
Marla Feller - MCB, UC Berkeley (CPD)
10/21/2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Neurocognitive Mechanisms Disrupted in Anxiety
Sonia Bishop - Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
10/22/2008
11:00AM -12:00PM
4131 Tolman Hall Strengthening Intergenerational/Intercultural Ties in Immigrant Families
Yu-Wen Ying - Social Welfare, UC Berkeley (East Asian Studies)
10/22/2008
12:00 PM
508-20 Evans Hall Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli
Rich Zemel - Computer Science, University of Toronto (HWNI)
10/22/2008
6:00 PM -7:00 PM
 (5:30 Reception)
North Gate Library Emotional Awareness
Paul Ekman - Adelphi University and Dacher Keltner - Psychology, UC Berkeley(Greater Good Science Center, et. al.)
10/24/2008
11:00AM -12:00PM
5101 Tolman Hall The Geometry of Neural Similarity Spaces Studied with fMRI
Geoffrey Aguirre - Neurology, University of Pennsylvania (ICBS)
10/24/2008
12:30 PM -1:30 PM
 
101 LSA Structural Basis of Voltage Sensor Function and Pharmacology in Ion Channels
Kenton Swartz - NINDS Porter Neuroscience Research Center (MCB, HWNI)
10/24/2008
12:30 PM -2:00 PM
 
1111 Tolman Hall
 
Effect of Preschool Parental Practices on Adolescent Socio-Emotional Development
Diana Baumrind - IHD, UC Berkeley AND
Epigenetic Processes in Emotional Development: What Are They and How Do They Cast a Different Light on Explaining Development More Generally
Joe Campos - Psychology, UC Berkeley
10/24/2008
4:00 PM -5:00 PM
 (Reception follows lecture in 355 Minor Addition)
489 Minor Hall Geometric and Photometric Constraints in the Perception of Contours, Surfaces and Materials
Barton Anderson, Irvin Rock Memorial Lecturer - Psychology, University of Sydney(ICBS & School of Optometry)
10/27/2008
4:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Accounting For Head Motion in Binaural Recording and Reproduction
Richard O. Duda - Emeritus, Electrical Engineering, San Jose State University (Ear Club and Starkey Hearing Research Center)
10/29/2008
12:00 PM
 
5101 Tolman Hall A Glimpse Into Voter Decision-Making
Jon Krosnick - Humanities and Social Sciences, Stanford University(IPSR)
10/30/2008
12:00 PM
508-20 Evans Hall What Makes a Neuron Spike: Optimality, Noise, and Phase Resetting
Bard Ermentrout - Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh (Redwood Center, HWNI)
November 2008
11/7/2008
11:00AM -12:30PM
5101 Tolman Hall
 
Continuous Temporal Dynamics in Real-time Cognition
Michael Spivey - Department of Cognitive Science, UC Merced (ICBS)
11/7/2008
2:00 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Neural Consequences of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Other
Elena Allen - Thesis Seminar, Freeman Lab, UC Berkeley (HWNI)
11/11/2008
4:00PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
 
Pitch Perception and its Role in Source Segregation
Andrew Oxenham - Psychology, University of Minnesota
11/13/2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
2515 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Acculturation and Post-Migration Stress in Chinese Immigrant Women from Fujian Province
Yu-Wen Ying - Social Welfare, UC Berkeley (East Asian Studies)
11/15/2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
105 Stanley Hall (MCB)
 
MCB Symposium: Humanity’s Genes and the Human Condition
Introduction: Ed Penhoet - Genomics and Society, UC Berkeley
Keynote: David Botstein - Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
Information and registration: http://mcb.berkeley.edu/seminars/fall08symposium/
11/15 -11/19/2008
 
Washington, D.C. Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference
Info: www.sfn.org/am2008
11/17/2008
4:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
Binaural Signal Detection, Masker Level, and Masker Interaural Correlation: Revisiting the Internal Noise Hypothesis
Les Bernstein - Medicine, University of Connecticut
11/18/2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
The History of the Clinical Science Program at UC Berkeley
Clinical Science Program Faculty
11/19/2008
12:00 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Black Racial Identity: From Theory of Measurement to Application
Frank Worrell - Education (School Psychology), UC Berkeley (ISPR)
11/20/2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
691 Barrows Hall
(Ctr. for Race and Gender)
Rethinking Reconciliation after Mass Violence
Harvey Weinstein - Public Health, Human Rights Ctr., UC Berkeley
11/21/2008
11:00AM -12:30PM
5101 Tolman Hall Facilitation of Semantic Processing with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Michal Lavidor - Psychology, University of Hull (UK) and Bar Ilan University (Israel) (ICBS)
11/21/2008
12:30PM - 2:00 PM

2515 Tolman Hall
(IHD Brown Bag)

Why Race and Culture Matter for Understanding Learning and Development
Na’ilah Nasir - Education, UC Berkeley
11/24/2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

182 Dwinelle Hall
(Linguistics)

What Speakers Do and Don't Do to Successfully Communicate
Vic Ferreira - Psychology, UC San Diego
11/25/2008
3:30PM - 5:00 PM

234 Moses Hall
Dennes Room (Neurophilosophy)

Cultural Evolution by Iterated Learning
Tom Griffiths - Psychology, UC Berkeley
 December 2008
12/1/2008
4:00 PM

3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room

Neural Bases of Speech Perception in Noisy Environments
Lee Miller - Center for the Mind and Brain, UC Davis
12/1/2008
12:00PM - 2:00 PM

3105 Tolman Hall
The Beach Room
(CPD Psych 249)

Perceptual Attention and Concept Learning
John Campbell - Philosophy, UC Berkeley
12/3/2008
12:00 PM

5101 Tolman Hall

Neural Bases of Speech Perception in Noisy Environments
Ezequiel Morsella - Neurology, UC San Francisco (IPSR)
12/4/2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

691 Barrows Hall
(Center for Race & Gender)

Scripting Sexuality: the Racialization of Black and Puerto Rican Women’s Bodies
Petra Raquel Rivera - African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
 Ariane Cruz - African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
12/5/2008
8:30 AM - 1:30 PM

5101 Tolman Hall

Discovering the Conceptual Primitives and Processes
ICBS Faculty Retreat –
By invitation (ICBS)
12/5/2008
12:30PM - 2:00 PM

2515 Tolman Hall
(IHD Brown Bag)

Developmental Neuroscience for the Greater Good
Ronald E. Dahl - Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
12/5/2008
2:00 PM

5101 Tolman Hall

Neurovascular Coupling in Brain Imaging and Brain Stimulation
Brian Pasley - Thesis Seminar, Freeman Lab, UC Berkeley (HWNI)
12/10/2008
12:00PM 

5101 Tolman Hall

Lacking Power and Control: Impaired Executive Function, Compensatory Consumption, and Illusory Pattern Perception
Adam Galinsky - Management, Northwestern University (IPSR)
12/12/2008
4:00 PM

489 Minor Hall

Performing Manual Tasks with Bilateral Macular Scotomas
George Timberlake - Ophthalmology, University of Kansas Medical Center (Oxyopia)
12/15/2008
8:30PM - 5:00 PM

Heyns Room, The Faculty Club, UCB

Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center Research Day (HWNI)
 Keynote Speaker: Randy Buckner - Psychology, Harvard University The Brain Genomics Superstruct Project
12/17/2008
12:00 PM

508-20 Evans Hall

From fMRI to Behavior and Back: The Decoding of fMRI Datasets
Francois Meyer - Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder (Redwood)
January 2009
1/23/2009
11:00AM -12:30PM

5101 Tolman Hall

Mental Representations in Music
Daniel Levitin - Psychology, McGill University (ICBS)
1/28/2009
7:30 PM

Kepler’s Bookstore
1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park CA, 94025

Book Reading: "Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life"
Dachner Keltner - author, Psychology, UC Berkeley
1/30/2009
12:00PM -1:15PM

5101 Tolman Hall

Approach and Avoidance Goals in Relationships; Implications for Emotions, Satisfaction, and Break-ups
Emily Impett - Post-doctoral Research Fellow, UC Berkeley (IPSR)  
1/30/2009
12:30PM -1:30PM

101 LSA

The Structure of the Retinal Receptive Field at the Resolution of Single Photoreceptors
E.J. Chichilnisky - The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (HWNI)
1/30/2009
12:30PM -2:00PM

1111 Tolman Hall (IHD Brown Bag)

Moral Development: Reasoning, Resistance and the Coordination of Diverse Judgments
Elliot Turiel - Education, UC Berkeley
1/30/2009
4:00PM

489 Minor Hall

Image Forensics
Hany Farid - Computer Science, Dartmouth College (Oxyopia)
February 2009
2/2/2009
4:00PM 
3105 Tolman Hall Beach Room Auditory Spatial Processing in a Complex Environment
Ilana Witten - Bioengineering, Stanford University
2/3/2009
3:30PM -5:30PM
5101 Tolman Hall
Seminar Room
Patient-based Human Intra- and Extra-cranial Electrophysiology in Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
Brad Voytek - Neuroscience, UC Berkeley (HWNI)
2/6/2009
2:30PM -5:30PM

The Heyns room of the Berkeley Faculty Club

Darwin in Mind: Evolution in the Cognitive Sciences
Join us for a celebration of Darwin and evolution!
Stephen Glickman - Darwin, Wallace, & the evolution/creation of the human mind & brain
Terrence Deacon - Title TBA
Frank Sulloway - The Galapagos, a photographic journey
Lucia Jacobs - The evolution of sex-specific cognitive specializations Dan Klein - Modeling the evolution of language 
For more information, visit: http://cognition.berkeley.edu/Darwin
2/6/2009
4:00PM 
489 Minor Hall The Role of Reward in Perceptual Learning
Aaron Seitz - Psychology, UC Riverside
2/13/2009
11:00AM -12:30PM
5101 Tolman Hall When Is an Action A ‘Gesture’? Recognizing ‘Semantic Intent’ in Bodily Movement
Adam Kendon - Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania (ICBS)
2/13/2009
12:30PM -1:30PM
101 LSA Lessons from Songbirds about Circuits and Signals
Allison Doupe - Physiology, UC San Francisco (MCB/HWNI)
2/13/2009
12:30PM -2:00PM
1111 Tolman Hall (IHD Brown Bag) Either/Or? Child Abuse Prevention or Foster Care: Redefining the Mission of Child Welfare
Jill Duerr Berrick - Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
2/17/2009
3:30PM -5:30PM
5101 Tolman Hall
(Neuroimaging)
Executive Control Training and Its Emotion Regulatory Consequences - fMRI Project Presentation
Anett Gyuak - Doctoral Candidate, IPSR, UC Berkeley

Talk: It’s Somewhere in the Brain, but Where?
Matthew Brett - visiting academic person/programmer at UC Berkeley

2/17/2009
7:00PM
Berkeley Arts & Letters Series at First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2335 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA
New Book Release and Speaking Engagements
The Triple Bind: The Hidden Crisis Facing Today’s Teenaged Girls
Stephen Hinshaw - Author, Chair of the Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley  
2/18/2009
12:00 PM
5101 Tolman Hall Social-Evaluative Threat: Effects on Emotion, Physiology, and Health
Sally Dickerson - Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine
(IPSR)
2/19/2009
7:00PM
51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA New Book Release and Speaking Engagements
The Triple Bind: The Hidden Crisis Facing Today’s Teenaged Girls Book Passage
2/23/2009
12:00PM - 2:00PM
3105 Tolman Hall Beach Room Event-Related Potentials to Cemetery Images Distinguish Electroencephalogram Recordings for Women Unresolved for Loss on the Adult Attachment Interview
Naomi Baum (CPD)
2/23/2009
4:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall Beach Room Lateralization of FM Sweeps and Mixed at High Frequencies
Kourosh Saberi - Cognitive Science, UC Irvine
2/24/2009
10:00AM -12:00PM
370 Dwinelle Hall (Academic Services) Fundamentals of Human Subjects Research
First of a two-part workshop for Graduate Students (Second part workshop: 3/4/09)
Rebecca D. Armstrong - Director of the Office for the Protection of Human Subjects, UC Berkeley 
Information: http://cphs.berkeley.edu
Preregistration required: https://berkeley.wufoo.com/forms/spring-2009-human-subjects-workshop-series/
2/24/2009
3:30PM -5:30PM
5101 Tolman Hall Jittering in Event Related Paradigms
Talk: Cindee Madison
fMRI Analysis Clinic
Matthew Brett - visiting academic person/programmer at UC Berkeley  (Neuroimaging)
2/25/2009
12:00PM - 1:15PM
5101 Tolman Hall Overconfidence in Private Beliefs and Public Statements
Don Moore - Organizational Behavior, Business, Carnegie Mellon University
2/26/2009
7:30PM
2315 Durant Avenue,
Berkeley City Club (Berkeley Arts & Letters Series)
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
Alva Noe - Philosophy, UC Berkeley
2/27/2009
8:30AM -4:30PM

UC Berkeley International House


 

Seminar: Building Compassion, Creating Well-Being
First of two seminars in the Science of Meaningful Life Series
(Second seminar date: 5/15/09)
Dachner Keltner - Psychology, UC Berkeley
Presentation: Paul Ekman - Emeritus, Psychology, UC San Francisco
Information and registration: www.academeca.com/Amedco/SeminarInfo.aspx?seminarId=343 (Greater Good Science Center
2/27/2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM
101 LSA Striatal Plasticity and Basal Ganglia Circuit Function
Anatol Kreitzer - Physiology and Neurology, UC San Francisco  (MCB/HWNI)
2/27/2009
12:30PM - 2:00PM
1111 Tolman Hall Reasoning Ability: Neural Mechanisms, Development, and Training
Silvia Bunge - Psychology, HWNI & IHD, UC Berkeley
2/27/2009
4:00PM
489 Minor Hall The Use of Visual Information in Letter Identification and Reading
Frederic Gosselin - Psychology, Universite, Montreal, Canada
March 2009
3/2/2009
12:00PM - 2:00PM
3105 Tolman Hall Beach Room The Obama Administration and Early Childhood Education
David Kirp - Public Policy, UC Berkeley (CPD)
3/2/2009
4:00PM
3105 Tolman Hall Beach Room TBA
Wendy de Heer - Equipe Audition Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris and Theunissen Lab, Berkeley (Ear Club)
3/3/2009
3:30PM -5:30PM
5101 Tolman Hal Motor Learning: The Challenge of Separating Error and Learning Signals with fMRI
Arne Ridderikhoff with John Schlerf and Rich Ivry
and
Current Capabilities and Best Practices for Anatomical and Advanced Anatomical (Diffusion) Scans (Neuroimaging)
Ben Inglis
3/4/2009
1:00PM - 3:00PM
370 Dwinelle Hall Navigating the Institutional Review Board (IRB) Process Human Subjects Research Workshop II
Rebecca Armstrong - Director of the Office for the Protection of Human Subjects
3/6/2009
11:00AM -12:30PM

12:30PM - 1:30PM

5101 Tolman Hall
 

3105 Tolman Hall

 

Individual Differences in Resisting Attentional Capture
Edward Vogel - Psychology, University of Oregon (ICBS)
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Mechanisms for Perceptual Decision-Making in the Human Brain
Leslie G. Ungerleider - National Institute of Mental Health (HWNI)
3/9/2009
12:00PM - 2:00PM



4:00 PM
3105 Tolman Hall




3105 Tolman Hall
Gesture as Input in Language Acquisition: Learning 'Who She Is' From 'Where She Is'
Whitney Goodrich - Graduate Student in Psychology, UC Berkeley (CPD)
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TBA
Brent Edwards - Starkey Hearing Research Center
3/10/2009
3:30PM -5:00PM
3105 Tolman Hall Psychoneuroimmunology: Can Cognition Impact Host Defense?
Margaret Kemeny, Professor - Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco (Clinical Science Program)
3/10/2009
3:30PM -5:00PM
5101 Tolman Hall Project Presentation: Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Cognitive Dissonance, and Attitude Change: An fMRI Study Using a Solomon 4-Group Design
Vincent Van Veen - Neuroscience, D’Esposito Lab, UC Berkeley
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Talk: Prepolarized MRI: Towards Simultaneous MEG and fMRI of Human Brain
Ben Inglis - Physicist and MRI Facility Management, UC Berkeley
(Neuroimaging)
3/11/2009
12:00PM

5101 Tolman Hall

Investigating Diverse Adolescents’ Perceptions of Time and Group Membership in Relation to Academic Outcomes
Zena Mello - Post-doc Fellow, UC Berkeley (IPSR)
3/11/2009
4:10PM -6:00PM

Toll Room, Alumni House

Thinking and Talking About the Self
John R. Perry - Philosophy, Stanford University
3/13/2009
12:30PM - 1:30 PM

101 LSA

Mechanisms Regulating Adult Neural Stem Cells and Neurogenesis
HongjunSong - Neurology, Johns Hopkins University (HWNI)
3/13/2009
12:30PM - 2:00 PM

1111 Tolman Hall

Value and Moral Development in Poverty Circumstances
Martin Sanchez-Jankowsky - Sociology,UC Berkeley(IHD Brown Bag)
3/13/2009
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

2140 Durant Avenue, Berkeley

Panel Review of: Mind, Brain, and the Elusive Soul: Human Systems of Cognitive Science and Religion
by Mark Graves - author
Panelists: Richard Payne - Institute of Buddhist Studies
Doug Oman - UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Mary Walsh and Kelly Bulkeley - Graduate Theological Union (Working Group on Religion and Cognitive Science)
 
3/20/2009
12:30PM

5101 Tolman Hall

The Expectant Brain and Anxiety Disorders
Jack B. Nitschke - Assistant Professor Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology University of Wisconsin-Madison (Co-Sponsored by the Clinical Science Program and ICBS)
April 2009
4/7/2009
3:30PM -5:00PM

3105 Tolman Hall

Genetic Influences on Negative Parenting: Rationale and Preliminary Findings (Clinical Science Program)
Steve S. Lee - Assistant Professor Department of Psychology, UCLA
4/20/2009
7:45AM -3:15PM
Clark Kerr Conference Center Conference Registration
UC Berkeley School Psychology 42nd Annual Conference

Dan Siegel, Psychiatry, UC Los Angeles
Dacher Keltner, Psychology, UC Berkeley

Information and Registration: http://bit.ly/schoolpsyc
4/21/2009
3:30PM -5:00PM
3105 Tolman Hall TBA
Laura Carstensen, Professor - Department of Psychology, Stanford University (Clinical Science Program)
Colloquia Listings after May 2009 TBA
June 2009
August 2009

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