Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 1994-1995 Academic Year
9-26-94
Detecting Interactions in a Set of Neurons: A Markov Field Approach
Dr. Laura Martignon, Department of Neural Information Processing, University
of Ulm, Germany 1:30 PM Room 330B S&T II
10-03-94
Krasnow Institute Open House
10-10-94
The Domain of Cognitive Sciences
10-17-94
Review and discussion of Roger Penrose's book The Emperor's New Mind
Jim Trefil, Robinson Professor of Physics, George Mason University
10-24-94
Review and discussion of Donald R. Griffin's book Animal Thinking
Harold Morowitz, Director, The Krasnow Institute
10-31-94
Review and discussion of Steven Pinker's book The Language Instinct
Alan Boneau, Professor of Psychology, George Mason University
11-07-94
Review and discussion of Robyn Carston's article "Language and
Cognition"
Mike Schoelles, Information Technology Dept., George Mason University
11-14-94
Review and discussion of Robert Penrose's book Shadows of the Mind
Kathy Laskey/Mike Schoelles, Systems Engineering Professor/Information
Technology Dept., George Mason University
11-21-94
Review and discussion of Herbert A. Simon's paper "What is an
'Explanation' of Behavior?"
Wayne Gray, Psychology Professor, George Mason University
11-28-94
Can We Create a Belief System in a Lifelike Way?
Rich Neopolitan, Northeastern Illinois University MEETING CANCELED
DUE TO BAD WEATHER--Rescheduled 5-1-95
12-5-94
Discussion of Daniel Dennett's chapter "The Reality of Selves"
from the book Consciousness Explained
Hadon Nash, Computer Sciences Dept., George Mason University
12-12-94
A Decision Science Perspective on Some Questions Raised at Krasnow
Monday Meetings
Rex Brown, Systems Engineering Dept., George Mason University
1-30-95
Review and discussion of J. Allan Hobson's book The Chemistry of Conscious
States
Harold Morowitz, Director, The Krasnow Institute
2-06-95
The Parallel Development of Physics and Psychology
John Allen/Lev Vekker, Psychology Professor/Research Affiliate, George
Mason University
2-13-95
Neurons: An Overview of Their Structure, Organization, and Function
Ann Butler, Krasnow Institute Research Professor
2-20-95
Consciousness: A Nonreductionist Approach
Alan Boneau, Professor of Psychology, George Mason University
2-27-95
Postdoctoral Fellows Reception
3-01-95
Postdoctoral Fellows Research Presentations
Room 131 Science & Technology Building I
George Mason University, 1-5 p.m.
Discrepant Representations of Self: Relations to Personality, Emotion,and
Continuous Mood
Jonathan Garfinkle, Yale University, Environmental Influences on Functional
Architecture: A Co-Occurrence Explanation for the Segregation of Letter
and Digit Recognition
Thad Polk, University of Pennsylvania, Agent Representation
Bill Hirstein, University of California at San Diego Evolving Neural Networks
by Natural Selection of Dendritic Templates
Alan Blair, Brandeis University
3-06-95
Learning in a Real Neuronal Network
Jane Flinn, Psychology Professor, George Mason University
3-13-95
no meeting (GMU Spring Break)
3-20-95
Recent Results in Neuronal Dynamics
Harry Erwin, Computer Science Department, George Mason University
3-27-95
An Anthropologist's Perspective on Cognition
Catherine Bateson, GMU Robinson Professor of Anthropology & English,
George Mason University
4-03-95
Cognition: Models of Mind, Models of Existence
Mihai Draganescu, Romanian Academy and Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Reception 3:30pm, Talk/Discussion 4pm - 5pm SUB II Ballroom (back section),
George Mason Univ. (Cosponsored by the Dept. of Computer Science, George
Mason University)
4-10-95
"Arguing" about Definitions
4-17-95
The Neuropsychological and Neurobiological Underpinnings of Reading
and Other Complex Behaviors
Reid Lyon, Natl. Inst. of Child Health & Human Development, National
Institutes of Health
4-24-95
Learning and Cognition
Ryszard Michalski, Professor of Computer Sciences, George Mason University
5-01-95
*Can We Develop a System Which Learns a Belief System in a Lifelike
Way?
*Richard E. Neapolitan, Northeastern Illinois University
5-08-95
Where is Fancy Bred? Cognitive and Neurophysiological Correlates of
Discovery
David Schum, Professor of Operations Research & Engineering, George
Mason University
5-15-95
no meeting
*Richard Neapolitan unable to attend. Harold Morowitz spoke instead.