Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 1995-1996 Academic Year
9-11-95
Synergistic Learning in an Evolving Population of Agents: A Computational
Model of Cultural Coevolution [abstract]
Larry Hunter, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, MD
9-18-95
Rationality, Intelligence and Bayes [abstract]
Kathy Laskey, Associate Professor of Systems Engineering & the
Krasnow Institute, George Mason University
9-25-95
Artificial Neural Networks Based on the Neurobiology of Associative
Learning: Derivation and Performance [abstract]
Tom Vogl, Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
10-02-95
Report on the Krasnow Institute's Evolution, Neurobiology &
Behavior Workshop 1995 [abstract]
Harold Morowitz, Krasnow Institute, Director
10-09-95
Columbus Day Break
10-16-95
Exon-Based Transcriptional Activators: Zip-Coding the Dendritic Spines
in Neurons [abstract]
James L. Olds, Laboratory of Adaptive Systems, NINDS, National Institutes
of Health, Besthesda, MD
10-23-95
Universal Grammar in Language Learning and Language Use [abstract]
Amy Weinberg, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD
10-30-95
Perspectives on Cognitive Science from Three Disciplines: Neurobiology,
Psychology, and Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence.
Ann B. Butler, Krasnow Institute Research Professor
Wayne Gray, Department of Psychology and the Krasnow Institute
Larry Hunter, National Library of Medicine
11-6-95
Evolutionary Origins of the Vertebrate Mind [abstract]
Ann Butler, Krasnow Institute Research Professor
11-13-95
Report on the Santa Fe Institute Meeting on Early Childhood Intervention
and Continued Dicussion from the Krasnow Monday Meeting "Perspectives
on Cognitive Science" [abstract]
Harold Morowitz (Director, Krasnow Inst.) / open discussion
11-20-95
Social Construction of Reality Modeling: A Trader Network Program Using
the Principles of Interpretive Social Science [abstract]
Deborah Duong, Institute for Computational Sciences & Informatics,
GMU
11-27-95
Soar as a Unified Theory of Cognition [abstract]
Location: Assembly Room C, University Learning Center, GMU Fairfax
campus
Bonnie E. John, Departments of Computer Science and Psychology and the
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
12-4-95
From Memory Molecules to Alzheimer's Disease [abstract]
Location: Assembly Room C, University Learning Center, GMU Fairfax
campus
Daniel Alkon, Chief, Laboratory of Adaptive Systems, National Institutes
of Health
12-11-95
Towards Developing an Entity That Learns High-level Cognitive Skills
in a Lifelike Way [abstract]
Richard Neapolitan, Dept. of Computer Science, Northeastern Illinois
University
1-22-96
NO MEETING--First day of classes
1-29-96
Environmental Influences on the Functional Architecture of Vision:
Computational, Behavioral, and Neuroimaging Studies [abstract]
Thad Polk, Krasnow Institute Postdoctoral Fellow 1994-96
2-05-96
Evolving Intelligence: A Computational View [abstract]
Kenneth De Jong, Computer Science Department, GMU
2-12-96
A Model for Humoral Phototransduction [abstract]
Daniel Oren, Chief, Clinical Psychobiology of Mood Disorders Program
National Institute of Mental Health
2-19-96
Emergent Letter Perception in Letter
Spirit [abstract]
Gary McGraw,
Research Scientist, Reliable Software
Technologies Corp and Center
for Research on Concepts and Cognition
2-26-96
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain Physiology and Function [abstract]
James Pekar, Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown
University Medical Center
3-04-96
Signal Transduction and Transformation in Neuronal Networks [abstract]
Carlos Collin, Laboratory of Adaptive Systems, National Institute
of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
3-11-96
No Meeting--Monday of Spring Recess
3-18-96
Topography of Regional Neural Networks Reveals Structural Differences
in Gender Postnatal Development of Cerebral Cortices [abstract]
Harriet Hanlon, Educational Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
3-25-96
The Human Brain [abstract]
Jane Flinn, Psychology Department, GMU, Ann B. Butler, Krasnow Research
Professor
4-01-96
Foundational Principles and Consciousness [abstract]
Menas Kafatos, University Professor of Interdisciplinary Science,
GMU
4-08-96
Why the Brain is not a Computer [abstract]
James Trefil, Robinson Professor of Physics, GMU
4-15-96
The Human Genome, Phenotype, and Behavior: How Will the Cognitive Sciences
be Impacted by Knowledge of the Genome?
An Open Discussion
4-22-96
Looming and Loss: Cognitive Metaphors and Mechanisms in Anxiety and
Depression [abstract]
John Riskind, Department of Psychology, GMU
4-29-96
The Acquisition of Expert Performance: Evidence on Maximal Adaptation
due to Deliberate Practice [abstract]
K. Anders Ericsson, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
5-06-96
Neurotransmitters: Neuronal Signalling Systems [abstract]
Robert F. Smith, Chair, Psychology Department, GMU