GICCS Seminar Series: past talks
Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Seminar series: past talks
Tuesday, October 15th
Principles and Practice of Functional MRI
John C. Gore
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Applied Physics
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Friday, October 18th
The Acquisition and Consolidation of Skills: Learning Related Plasticity
in the Adult Human Cortex
Dr. Avi Karni
Laboratory of Psychology & Psychopathology
National Institute of Mental Health
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Abstract
Friday, October 25th
Acute Ischemic Stroke -- Diagnosis and Prognosis by
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
Peter C. M. Van Zijl
Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
Gorman Auditorium. 12:30 pm
Tuesday, October 29th. **SPECIAL SEMINAR**
Techniques for Functional Image Analysis
John W. VanMeter, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Development
Sensor Systems, Inc.
Sterling, Virginia.
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00 pm
Friday, November 1st
Rapid Three-Dimensional Approaches for Functional MRI of the Human Brain
on Standard 1.5 Tesla Clinical MRI Scanners
Dr. Chrit T. W. Moonen
Director, In Vivo NMR Research Center, NIH
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Friday, November 15th
Cerebral integration of audio-visual linguistic signals studied by fMRI
Dr. Gemma Calvert
Oxford University, England
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Josef
P. Rauschecker
Friday, November 22nd
Triple vision in area V2 of the macaque: optical imaging and cross
correlation studies
Dr. Anna Roe
Yale University
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Josef
P. Rauschecker
Friday, November 22nd **SPECIAL SEMINAR**
Functional imaging studies of human learning
Thomas, A. Zeffiro, M.D., Ph.D.
Sensor Systems, Inc.
Sterling, VA 20164
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 4:00pm
Host: Alan Faden
Monday, November 25th **SPECIAL SEMINAR**
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Brain: Novel
Techniques and Applications
Dr. Guoying Liu
Department of Radiology,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: James J. Pekar
Monday, December 2nd **SPECIAL SEMINAR**
Functional human brain mapping using MRI and PET
Dr. Jinhu Xiong
The University of Texas
San Antonio
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 11:00pm
Host: James J. Pekar
Friday, December 13th
On oscillation and synchronisation of cortical activity and their
role in auditory grouping and binding
Dr. Eric Mousset
INGENIA
France
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Geoff Goodhill
Friday, January 17th
Posterior Cortical Mediation of Bimanual Coordination: Pre- and
Postoperative Study of a Split Brain Patient
Dr. J. Elliassen
University of California, Davis
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Guinevere Eden
Friday, January 24th
Visual Represensatation of Spatial Location: Evidence from a Development
Deficit
Dr. M. McCloskey
Cognitive Science Dpt
School of Medicine
John Hopkins University
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Alexandre Pouget and Guinevere Eden
Friday, February 7th
The Influence of Binocular Deprivation on the Development of Attention
Dr. Melissa Goldberg
McMaster University
Canada
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Guinevere Eden
Friday, February 14th
Representations of Visual Targets in Monkey Cerebral Cortex
Dr. J. Maunsell
Baylor College of Medecine
Houston, TX
Research Building Auditorium. 12:00pm
Abstract
Host: Alexandre Pouget
Friday, February 21st
Parietal Mechanisms for Visuospatial Attention
Dr. M. Goldberg
NIH, Bethesda, MD
and
Neurology Dpt, Georgetown University
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Alexandre Pouget
Friday, March 21st
Advances in Functional MRI of the Human Brain
Seong-Gi Kim, Ph.D.
Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
and Department of Radiology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 2:00pm
Host: James J. Pekar
Friday, April 11th
A spectral contrast mechanism for single-unit directional sensitivity in
the cat's central auditory system.
Tom Imig
Department of Physiology
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Josef
P. Rauschecker
Friday, April 18th
Neuronal mechanisms of perceptual filling-in
Peter De Weerd
Laboratory of Neuropsychology
National Institute of Mental Health
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Guinevere Eden
Friday, April 25th
Functional Imaging of Human Visual Recognition
Dr. N. Kanwisher
Harvard University
Boston, MA
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Daphne Bavelier
Thursday, May 1st **SPECIAL SEMINAR**
A statistically motivated model of cortical processing
Dr. Geoffrey E. Hinton
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Ontario M5S 1A4
Canada
GICCS library. Research Building Auditorium. 1:00pm
Host: Geoff Goodhill
Friday, May 2nd
When 'brane' becomes 'brain' : Automatic Coupling of Phonological Processes
in Visual Word Recognition
Benjamine Xu
Pittsburg University
Department of Psychology
GICCS library. Research Building WP07. 12:00pm
Host: Guinevere Eden
For information regarding the GICCS
seminar series, please contact:
Alexandre Pouget
Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
New Research Building. Room EP04.
Washington, DC 20007-2197
Phone: (202) 687 0471
Fax: (202) 687-0617
alex@salk.edu