Past Events

Date and Time Talk Title Speaker
05/14/2012 - 5:15pm - 7:30pm Evaluating models of experience-dependent receptive field development across primary sensory cortices (MBC Graduate Training (IGERT)) Andrew Saxe, Stanford
05/09/2012 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm Ann Nordmeyer: Exploring the Pragmatics of Negation (Developmental Brownbag) Ann Nordmeyer, Stanford University
05/07/2012 - 5:15pm - 7:30pm tba (MBC Graduate Training (IGERT)) Prof Baba Shiv, Stanford
05/02/2012 - 3:45pm - 5:00pm Professor Roy Patterson: What determines the sound quality of a family of musical instruments? And what distinguishes members of a family when they are playing the same note? (Colloquium) Professor Roy Patterson Head of the Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University, UK
05/02/2012 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm Chigusa Kurumada: Pragmatic interpretation and learning of contrastive prosody (Developmental Brownbag) Chigusa Kurumada, Stanford University
04/27/2012 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Sean Mackey: Pain, Love and Machine Learning: An Update on Neuroimaging of Pain at Stanford (Cognitive Seminar) Sean Mackey, Stanford University
04/25/2012 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm Middy Tice: Tracking turns in conversation (Developmental Brownbag) Middy Tice
04/23/2012 - 5:15pm - 7:30pm Rethinking gating: selective integration of sensory signals through network dynamics (MBC Graduate Training (IGERT)) Dr. David Sussillo, Stanford
04/20/2012 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Brian Rutt: The Stanford High Field MRI Program (Cognitive Seminar) Brian Rutt, Stanford University
04/18/2012 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm Jason Yeatman: The development of white matter and reading skills (Developmental Brownbag) Jason Yeatman, Stanford University
04/13/2012 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Cameron McKenzie and Kevin Mickey: "Exploring the mental number line: analog and symbolic aspects of fraction representation" and "Mental Representations in Trigonometry" (Cognitive Seminar) Cameron McKenzie and Kevin Mickey, Stanford University
04/11/2012 - 3:45pm - 5:00pm Professor Paul Brest: Title TBA (Colloquium) Professor Paul Brest Professor of Law, Emeritus and Former Dean, Stanford University
04/09/2012 - 5:15pm - 7:30pm Attentional modulation of visual responses across neocortical layers (MBC Graduate Training (IGERT)) Nick Steinmetz, Stanford
04/06/2012 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Justine Kao & Michael Waskom: Pun Intended: A Computational Model of Ambiguity Resolution in Word Play and Prefrontal Representations Underlying Flexible Behavior (Cognitive Seminar) Justine Kao and Michael Waskom, Stanford University
04/04/2012 - 3:45pm - 5:00pm Professor Michele Gelfand: Culture’s Constraints: Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures (Colloquium) Professor Michele Gelfand University of Maryland College Park
04/04/2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm Michael Frank: Mental abacus: A visual representation of exact number and its educational implications (Developmental Brownbag) Michael Frank, Stanford University
03/21/2012 - 3:45pm - 5:00pm Prof. Karl Zilles: Regional distribution of transmitter receptors reveal organizational principles of the human cerebral cortex (Colloquium) Dr. Karl Zilles Professor of Brain Research at the C. & O. Vogt Brain Research Institute, University of Düsseldorf and Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Research Center Jülich
03/16/2012 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Fumiko Hoeft: Applications of Neuroimaging Research from a Clinician’s Perspective (Cognitive Seminar) Fumiko Hoeft, Stanford University
03/09/2012 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Kendrick Kay: Characterizing the computations performed by the human visual system (Cognitive Seminar) Kendrick Kay, Stanford University
03/06/2012 - 1:00pm - 2:15pm Special MBC Lecture: The Orchestral Brain: High-Fidelity Coding with Correlated Neurons (MBC Graduate Training (IGERT)) Dr. Rava da Silveira, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
03/05/2012 - 5:15pm - 7:30pm tba (MBC Graduate Training (IGERT)) Prof Surya Ganguli, Stanford
03/02/2012 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Ariel Rokem: Acetylcholine in attention, learning and visual processing (Cognitive Seminar) Ariel Rokem, Stanford University
02/29/2012 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation Symposium: Reinforcement Learning: Computational Roles for Dopamine, Striatum, and Hippocampus (MBC Graduate Training (IGERT)) Gary Aston-Jones, Medical University of South Carolina; Read Montague, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; Yael Niv, Princeton University
02/27/2012 - 5:15pm - 7:30pm Three Controversial Hypotheses Concerning Computation in the Primate Cortex (MBC Graduate Training (IGERT)) Dr. Thomas Dean, Google
02/24/2012 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Karen LaRocque: Representational similarity in the human medial temporal lobe: evidence for two memory processes and Adriana Weisleder: Richer language experience leads to faster understanding: Language input and processing efficiency in diverse groups (Cognitive Seminar) Karen LaRocque and Adriana Weisleder, Stanford University
02/23/2012 - 10:30am - 11:45am Dr. Hakwan Lau: The Signal Processing Architectures Underlying Subjective Perceptual Ratings (Cognitive Seminar) Dr. Hakwan Lau Columbia University and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
02/22/2012 - 3:45pm - 5:00pm Dr. Hakwan Lau: Subjective Perceptual Inflation Under Inattention (Colloquium) Dr. Hakwan Lau Columbia University and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
02/20/2012 - 5:15pm - 7:30pm Sparse high-order interaction networks underlie learnable neural population codes (MBC Graduate Training (IGERT)) Dr. Elad Schneidman, Weismann Institute
02/17/2012 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Nathan Witthoft (Cognitive Seminar) Nathan Witthoft
02/15/2012 - 3:45pm - 5:00pm Dr. Melissa E. Libertus: Behavioral and neural evidence for the Approximate Number System and its relation to mathematics (Colloquium) Dr. Melissa E. Libertus Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University