Cognitive Science Colloquium accompanying discussion series

Fall 2009

All meetings take place on Thursdays, 3.30-5.30 pm in Bioscience Research Building 1103 unless otherwise noted, and are open to all faculty and students.

September 3 -- discussion of Valian: [1]  "Innateness and learnability" in Bavin (ed), Handbook of Child Language, 2009; and [2]  "Abstract categories or limited scope formulae: The case of children's determiners" in Journal of Child Language, 2009.

September 17 -- discussion of Marsh: [1]  "Accurate identification of fear facial expressions predicts prosocial behavior" in Emotion, 2007; and [2]  "Reduced amygdala response to fearful expressions in children and adolescents with callous-unemotional traits and disruptive behavior disorders" in American Journal of Psychiatry, 2008.

October 1 -- discussion of Wilson: [1]  "Learning phonology with substantive bias" in Cognitive Science, 2006. -- CANCELED

October 15 -- discussion of Todorov: [1]  "Understanding evaluation of faces on social dimensions" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2008: and [2]  "Predicting political elections from rapid and unreflective face judgments" in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 2007.

October 29 -- discussion of DeLoache: [1] "Young children make scale errors when playing with dolls" in Developmental Science, 2006; and [2] "Becoming symbol-minded", in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004.

November 12 -- discussion of Hommel: [1]  "Action control according to the theory of event coding" in Psychological Research, 2009; and [2] "Conscious and unconscious control of spatial action" in Banks (ed.), Encyclopedia of Consciousness, 2009. [note: in Bio-Pych 1208]

December 3 -- discussion of Stich: [1]  "A framework for the psychology of norms" in Carruthers, Laurence, and Stich, The Innate Mind vol.2, 2006; and [2] "Altruism" in The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, forthcoming.