The Significance of Conflict in People's Lives

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Everyone experiences conflict. Join us exploring the implications of conflict in our lives and learn easy to implement tips of both what and what not to do so that you get the most out of your conflict, whether at home, work or around and about in the world.

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Irving Rock Memorial Lecture: Perceptual Organization and Visual Attention

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5101
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Perceptual organization - the processes structuring visual information into coherent units - and visual attention - the processes by which some visual information in a scene is selected - are crucial for the perception of our visual environment and to visuomotor behavior. Recent research points...

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Perceiving Actions and Understanding Language: The Role (or Not) of Simulation

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5101
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The milieu exterieur and the milieu interieur of Claude Bernard have a modern relevance to research in brain imaging. In particular, we interpret these as analogous to ecological context (the external environment), on one hand, and neural context (neuronal interactions) on the other. In this...

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Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul

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Ballroom
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Alexandra Horowitz will present the Foerster lecture on April 4, 2013 titled "Considering Dogs." The lecture is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Please note updated venue listing.

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Spatial Thinking

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5101
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Technology Assisted Reading Acquisition (TARA): Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally

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5101
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Society faces increasing challenges in the ability to support the infrastructure of a literate world. Virtual teachers, the internet, and the ceaseless access to information hold promise. To date, however, these potential solutions do not consider research in cognitive science and the potential...

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History and Theory of New Media Lecture: Lisa Gitelman, NYU

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370
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“Amateurdom” and “fandom” were realms of amateur cultural production, the former self-articulated around 1870 and the latter around 1930. Could these “-doms” offer a resource for thinking about today’s amateur cultural production? What would, what should a history of amateurs look like?

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