Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 1997-1998 Academic Year
9-08-97
Information Exchange in Cortex: How Spikes Are Transmitted Between
Cortical Areas [abstract]
Jerry Nelson, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of
Mental Health, NIH
9-15-97
Comparison of Startle Response in Birds and Mammals
Kelly Cookson, The Krasnow Institute and the University of Maryland
- College Park
9-22-97
PET Studies of Impaired Word Recognition in Dyslexia
Judith Rumsey, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH and Georgetown
University Medical Center
9-29-97
Computational Models of the Cortical Response to Focal Damage
Jim Reggia, Departments of Computer Science and Neurology, University
of Maryland - College Park & Baltimore
10-6-97
Applying Periodic Orbit Theory to Understand and Control Neuronal
Networks [abstract]
Steven J. Schiff, Center for Neuroscience Research, Children's Research
Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
10-14-97 **TUESDAY**
The Joists and Tiers of Memory [abstract]
Mortimer Mishkin, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute
of Mental Health, NIH
10-20-97
Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language: Implications for
Linguistic Theory [abstract]
Sarah Taub, Department of ASL, Linguistics, and Interpretation, Gallaudet
University
10-27-97
No Meeting (Neuroscience Mtg.)
11-03-97
Associative Memory in a Non-neural System: Towards a Generalization
of Associative Mechanisms
Juan V. Sanchez-Andres, Dept. Fisiologia, Centro de Bioingenieria Univ.
Miguel Hernandez, Campus de San Juan, Alicante, Spain
11-10-97
What do Neuronal Codes Tell Us About Cortical Organization?
Barry Richmond, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
11-17-97
The Timing of Conscious Experience: A Causality-violating, Two-valued,
Transactional Interpretation of Subjective Antedating and Spatial-temporal
Projection [abstract]
Fred Alan Wolf, Have Brains / Will Travel
11-24-97
Behavioral and Pharmacological Aspects of Learning in Crabs [abstract]
Daniel Tomsic, Laboratory of Adaptive Systems, National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
12-01-97
The Efficiency of Stock Markets as Information Processing Devices
[abstract]
Randall Morck, University of Alberta, Edmonton
12-08-97
Demonstrating the Effect of Context on the Information Processing
of Patriot Air Defense Officers [abstract]
Leonard Adelman, Operations Research and Engineering, George Mason
University
1-26-98
General Discussion on Cognitive Science Topics led by Harold Morowitz
2-02-98
An Attempt to Make the Connections Between Genetics and Function:
Approaches to Large-Scale Gene Expression Analysis
George Michaels, Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics,
GMU
2-09-98
Cognitive and Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory: A Source Monitoring
Approach [abstract]
Scott F. Nolde, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
2-16-98
Shifts in the Voltage Dependence of Ion Channel Gating Regulate Synaptic
Integration and Backpropagation in Pyramidal Cell Dendrites
Paul Rhodes, Mathematical Research Branch, National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases , National Institutes of Health
2-23-98
The HippocampusLarger than Life: Constructing a Large-scale Computational
Model [abstract]
Jeffrey Krichmar, Krasnow Institute and Institute for Computational
Sciences and Informatics, GMU
3-02-98
Entropy, Information and the Brain
William Bialek, NEC Research Institute
3-09-98
No meeting --GMU Spring break
3-16-98
Neuroimaging in Understanding Developmental Dyslexia
Guinevere Eden, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational
Science, Georgetown University
3-23-98
Primary Metaphor as a Linguistic and Conceptual Phenomenon [abstract]
Joseph Grady, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
3-30-98
Cellular Mechanisms of Associative Learning and Memory [abstract]
Avrama Blackwell, Krasnow Institute and Institute for Computational
Sciences & Informatics, GMU
4-06-98
Wiring up the Model: The Need for Biologically Realistic Neuro-development
in Large Scale Hippocampal Network Simulations [abstract]
Jim Olds, American Association of Anatomists and Krasnow Institute
4-13-98
Genes, Behavior, and Developmental Emergentism: One Process, Indivisible?
[abstract]
Kenneth F. Schaffner, University Professor of Medical Humanities, George
Washington University
4-20-98
Observational Learning in Orang utans [abstract]
Robert Shumaker, Think Tank at the National Zoological Park and Krasnow
Institute
4-27-98
Report on the recent Krasnow-sponsored workshop "The Brain, the
Mind and the Classroom"
Harold Morowitz, Krasnow Institute