Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 2001-2002 Academic Year
8-27-01
No seminar- GMU first day of classes
9-03-01
No seminar- Labor Day
9-10-01
Comparison of Sign Language and Speech Plus Co-Speech Gesture
Sarah F. Taub, Assistant Professor, ASL, Linguistics, & Interpretation,
Gallaudet University
9-17-01
No Seminar- Rosh Hashanah begins
9-24-01
Dynamics of Large Scale Cortical Networks and Cognition
Mingzhou Ding, Professor, Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida
Atlantic University
10-01-01
Memory and Learning in Orang utans: More Than Just a Pretty
Face [abstract]
Karyl B. Swartz, Professor, Psychology, Lehman College, City University
of New York
10-08-01
No seminar- Columbus day
10-15-01
Cell-specific gene expression in the CNS: experimental approaches and
biological significance
Harold Gainer, Ph.D., Chief, Laboratory of Neurochemistry, National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of
Health
10-22-01
Structure of Intellect: A Tool for Understanding Learning Performance
[abstract]
Derek Leebaert, President & CEO and John Park, COO, Intellicue
10-29-01
Grapes and grunts, beans and barks: Referential potential of chimpanzee
food vocalizations
Sarah Boysen, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology & Director, Comparative
Cognition Project ,The Ohio State University Chimpanzee Center, O.S.U.,
Columbus, OH
11-05-01
Sequence Analysis of Complex Genomes
W. Richard McCombie, Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
11-12-01
No seminar- Society of Neuroscience 31st annual meeting Nov. 10th-15th
11-19-01
Imaging Parkinson's disease and its progression
Kirk A. Frey, Professor, Radiology Department, University of Michigan
11-26-01
Gene expression portraits of cognition
Sebastiano Cavallaro, M.D., Ph.D., Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences
Institute
12-03-01
Bateson, Computation and the Explanation of Collective Human Behaviors
Jack Corliss, Affiliate Faculty Office of the Provost - Committee for
Computational Social Science, George Mason University
12-10-01
Numerical Competence in Orang utans
Robert W. Shumaker, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George
Mason University, Coordinator, Orang utan Language Project, National Zoological
Park, Smithsonian Institute
01/28/02
Innovating Complex Technologies
Don E. Kash, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy,
George Mason University
02/04/02
Connectionist modeling of spoken and written language processes [abstract]
Christopher T. Kello, Department of Psychology, George Mason University
02/11/02
Neuroimaging of Economic Decision Making
Kevin McCabe, Professor, Department of Economics and Law School, George
Mason University, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES),
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, and the Mercatus Center
02/18/02
No seminar -- President's Day
02/25/02
Spatiotemporal patterns of neural oscillators
G. Bard Ermentrout, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
03/04/02
Talents of dyslexics: Case studies in neuroscience[abstract]
Thomas G. West, Director, Center for the Study of Dyslexia and Talent,
Krasnow Institute & Gordon Sherman, Science Director,
Center for the Study of Dyslexia and Talent, Krasnow Institute, and
Executive Director, The Newgrange School and Educational Outreach Center,
Princeton, NJ
03/11/02
No Seminar -- GMU Spring Break
03/18/02
A Mathematical Organization Theory Model of Uncertainty and Diminished
Capacity in Attention Seeking and Decision-Making [abstract]
Doug Samuelson, InfoLogix, Inc.
03/25/02
Using brain responses to predict and alter language outcomes
Dennis Molfese, Ph.D., Project Consultant for Youth of Promise
04/01/02
Complex Sounds, Firing Rates and Temporal States
Jag Kanwal, Georgetown University, Department of Neuroscience [abstract]
04/08/02 --CANCELLED--
No seminar
Dyslexic times, dyslexic places: Visual talents and computer visualization
Thomas G. West, Director, Center for the Study of Dyslexia and Talent,
Krasnow Institute
04/15/02
Emergence, Learning and Hominid Evolution
Ann M. Palkovich, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of
Sociology/Anthropology, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George
Mason University
04/22/02
Gene expression in human brain disorders
[abstract]
Jonathan Pevsner, Department of Neurology, Kennedy Krieger Institute
04/29/02
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05/03/02
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