Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 1998-1999 Academic Year
8-31-98
No Meeting--GMU First day of classes
9-07-98
No Meeting--Labor Day
9-14-98
The Associator of Last Resort: A Neural Network Model of the Hippocampus
Helps Us Understand the Critical Biology for Discovering and Recoding
Context-Dependent Information
William B. Levy, Departments of Neurosurgery & of Psychology, University
of Virginia Health Sciences Center
9-21-98
Face Recognition : From Theory to Applications
[abstract]
Harry Wechsler,
Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
9-28-98
Blending and the Brain [abstract]
Mark Turner, Department of English Language and Literature & Doctoral
Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland
10-05-98
Quantitative Description of Dendritic Morphology: A Case Study
[abstract]
Robert E. Burke, Lab. of Neural Control, NINDS, NIH
Extra Tuesday Lecture 10-06-98
10-12-98
No meetingóGMU Columbus Day Break
10-19-98
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Neuropsychiatry [abstract]
Benjamin D. Greenberg, Adult OCD Research Unit, National Institute
of Mental Health, NIH
10-26-98
The Development and Structure of Visual Cortical Maps [abstract]
Geoff Goodhill, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational
Science, Georgetown University
11-02-98
The National Museum of Health and Medicine--A Virtual Visit
Adrianne Noe, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology
11-09-98
No Meeting,Neuroscience Mtg.
11-16-98
Learning and the Cerebellum: Long-Term Depression Versus Increased
Excitability
Bernard Schreurs, Chief, Behavioral Neuroscience Unit, Laboratory
of Adaptive Systems, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke, NIH
11-23-98
Birdsong neurobiology: Learning to sing and to hear
Susan F. Volman, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes
of Health
11-30-98
Molecular and Biophysical Determinants of Basal Synaptic Efficacy and
its Contribution to Individual Differences in Learning [abstract]
Louis D. Matzel, Program in Biopsychology & Behavioral Neuroscience,
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
12-04-98
Extra, Friday Lecture at 1 pm
12-07-98
Functional Neuroanatomy of Approach and Active Avoidance Behavior [abstract]
Brian Knutson, Section on Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology,National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH
12-14-98
No meeting -- GMU Fall Exam period
01-25-99
No Meeting -- GMU First day of Spring classes
02-01-99
The Prefrontal Cortex: A Comparative Perspective [abstract]
Ivan Divac, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental
Health, NIH
2-05-99
Extra Friday Lecture co-sponsored with
the School of Information Technology & Engineering, GMU
02-08-99
Neural Basis Of Object Recognition, Object Identification, and Response
Selection in Rhesus Monkeys
Betsy Murray, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
02-15-99
Molecular Alterations In Alzheimer's Disease: Studies in Fibroblasts
and Neuronal Cells [abstract]
Rene Etcherberrigarray Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational
Science, Georgetown University
02-22-99
Genomics and Computational Neuroscience: How to make the connection.
[abstract]
Jim Schwaber
03-01-99
Evolvability of Emerging Viruses: A computer simulation model of AIDS
virus (HIV) mutation, recombination, and adaptation. [abstract]
Don Burke, Center for Immunization Research, International Health,School
of Public Health,Johns Hopkins University
03-08-99
A Functional Role for Cellular Heterogeneity in a Mammalian Neural
Network [abstract]
Rob Butera, Laboratory for Neural Control, National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
03-15-99
No meeting -- GMU Spring Break
03-22-99
Cellular Automata Models of Self - Replication [abstract]
Jim Reggia, Departments of Computer Science and Neurology, University
of Maryland - College Park & Baltimore
03-29-99
Serial Learning and Memory in Nonhuman Primates: Strategies for Acquiring
and Executing Lists [abstract]
Karyl Swartz, Department of Psychology, City University of New York
04-05-99
Optical Studies of Neuronal Activity in CNS [abstract]
Jian-Young Wu, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational
Science, Georgetown University
04-12-99
The Multipolar Hypothesis: Evolution of Sensory Systems in the Earliest
Vertebrates
Ann Butler, Krasnow Institute & Department of Psychology, George Mason
University
04-19-99
No Meeting (original meeting canceled)
04-26-99
No Meeting - Roger Penrose speaks at Univ. of Maryland
05-03-99
A Role For Caspases In Neuronal Apoptosis and Traumatic Neuronal Injury
Alan Faden, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Science,
Georgetown University