Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 1996-1997 Academic Year
9-09-96
Computation in Genetic Networks [abstract]
Roland Somogyi, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
9-16-96
Qualitative Reasoning as a Modeling Tool for Computational Neuroscience
[abstract]
Jeff Krichmar, Research Instructor, Krasnow Institute
9-23-96
Complexity and Hominid Evolution
Ann Palkovich, Sociology and Anthropology Department, George Mason
University
9-30-96
Episodic Memory for External Information [abstract]
Erik Altmann, Krasnow Postdoctoral Fellow 1996-97
10-07-96
Comparative Analysis of Spatial Vision and the Retina [abstract]
William Hodos, Psychology Department, University of Maryland at College
Park
Location: Student Union Bldg II, Middle Ballroom
10-21-96
Evolution of Acoustic Startle Pathways Believed to be Disturbed in
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [abstract]
Kelly Cookson, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland at
College Park
10-28-96
From Protein Phosphorylation to the Matrix of Association: Building
Models of Memory from Biochemical Data [abstract]
Giorgio Ascoli, Laboratory of Adaptive Systems, National Institute
for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH and Scuola Normale Superiore
di Pisa (Italy)
11-04-96
Scaling Of Brain Size in Vertebrates [abstract]
Geoffrey Birchard, Biology Department, George Mason University
11-11-96
The Role of Computing in Cognitive Science [abstract]
Larry Hunter, The Krasnow Institute & the National Library of Medicine
11-18-96
No Meeting -- Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington,DC
11-25-96
Canalization, Physics, Geometry, and Evolution: A Discussion [abstract]
Ann B. Butler, Research Professor, Krasnow Institute
Harold J. Morowitz, Director, Krasnow Institute
12-02-96
A Case for Abstract Structure in Human Language: Evidence from Grammar
and Processing
Robert Frank, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
1-20-97
No Meeting -- GMU First day of classes
1-27-97
Is Behavioral Plasticity an Adaptation?: What Individual and Group
Differences in Skill Might Have to Say [abstract]
Dennis McBride, US Naval Research Laboratory
2-03-97
Reintroduction of Captive-Born Animals to the Wild [abstract]
Benjamin Beck, National Zoological Park
2-10-97
When Explanations Rest: "Good-enough" Brain Science and the
New Biomental Disorders [abstract]
Joseph Dumit, Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School &
MIT
2-17-97
The Orang utan Language Project at Think Tank, National Zoo, Smithsonian
Institution [abstract]
Rob Shumaker, The Orang utan Language Project, National Zoological
Park
2-24-97
Brain Imaging of Childhood Onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders [abstract]
Jay Giedd, Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health,
NIH
3-03-97
Self-Organization of Information Processing in the Cortex [abstract]
Tom Vogl, Molecular Biosciences and Technology Institute, George Mason
University
3-10-97
No Meeting -- GMU Spring Break
3-17-97
How Did Three-Layer Cortex (archicortex) Come to Have a New Function
with the Evolutionary Development of Six-Layer Cortex (neocortex): A Modern
"Just-So" Story [abstract]
Jim Olds, American Association of Anatomists
3-24-97
The Simplistic Roots of Complexity [abstract]
Harold J. Morowitz, Director, Krasnow Institute and Robinson Professor,
GMU
3-31-97
'Finishing the Interface Design': How Operators Cope with the Demands
of Monitoring During Normal Operation [abstract]
Emilie Roth, Westinghouse Science and Technology Center
4-07-97
ACT-R: A Working Theory of Cognition [abstract]
John R. Anderson, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
4-14-97
Defining Cognition in Work Settings [abstract]
Yan Xiao, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Univ. of
Maryland - Baltimore
--Extra Meeting--
4-16-97 (Wednesday)
ATR's Billion Neuron Artificial Brain Project [abstract]
Hugo de Garis Head, Brain Builder Group, Evolutionary Systems Deptartment,
ATR Human Information Processing Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
4-21-97
The Role of the Cerebellum in Learning and Memory: Human and Animal
Model Systems
Bernard Schreurs Chief, Behavioral Neuroscience Unit, Laboratory of
Adaptive Systems, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
4-28-97
A Statistical Framework for Presenting Developmental Neuroanatomy
[abstract]
Stephen Senft, Neuroengineering and Neuroscience Center, Yale University
Location: Student Union Bldg. II, Back Ballroom, George
Mason University