PSYCHOLOGY COLLOQUIA
University of California, San Diego
                        
An Index of Some of the UCSD Psychology Department's Past Events.
The 2007-2008 Series
  • Robert Rescorla, U. of Pennsylvania
    "Assessing Changes in Associative Strength"
    Presented on May 29, 2008
    The Norman Anderson Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Ralph Hertwig, U. of Basel
    "Cognitive Resources: How Less Can Be More"
    Presented on May 22, 2008
  • Michael Arbib, USC
    "Describing Visual Scenes: Towards a Neurolinguistics Based on Construction Grammar"
    Presented on May 8, 2008
  • Lisa Oakes, UC Davis
    "Infants' Representation of Object Function"
    Presented on May 1, 2008
  • Stephen Palmer, UC Berkeley
    "Aesthetic Science: Understanding Preferences for Color and Spatial Composition"
    Presented on April 24, 2008
  • Gail Heyman, UCSD
    "Children's Reasoning about Motives to Disclose or to Deceive"
    Presented on April 3, 2008
  • Gabriele Wulf, U. of Nevada, Las Vegas
    "Attention and Motor Skill Learning"
    Presented on November 29, 2007
  • Melissa Koenig, U. of Minnesota
    Presented on November 15, 2007
  • Gerald Langner, T.U. Darmstadt
    "Temporal Processing and Neuronal Representation of Pitch, Timbre, and Harmonicity in the Auditory System"
    Presented on November 8, 2007
  • Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, NIMH
    "How Monkeys and Humans see Real-World Objects: Exploring Representational Similarity Across Species"
    Presented on November 1, 2007
  • Mathew D. McCubbins, UCSD
    "When Does Deliberating Improve Decisionmaking?"
    Presented on October 18, 2007
  • Murray Singer, U. of Manitoba
    "Language and Memory: Comprehending and Retrieving Discourse"
    Presented on October 11, 2007
  • Jean Twenge, SDSU
    "Generation Me and Birth Cohort Changes in Personality"
    Presented on October 4, 2007
The 2006-2007 Series
  • John Gottman, U. of Washington
    "The Mathematics of Relationships"
    Presented on June 7, 2007
    The Norman Anderson Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Anthony Wagner, Stanford
    "Remembering Events Pasts: Items, Conjunctions, Inference, and Errors in the Human MTL"
    Presented on May 24, 2007
  • Joaquin Fuster, UCLA
    "Distributed Memory and the Perception-Action Cycle"
    Presented on May 17, 2007
  • Tom Griffiths, UC Berkeley
    "Everyday Inductive Leaps: Making Predictions and Detecting Coincidences"
    Presented on May 10, 2007
  • Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Princeton
    "The Secret Life of Fluency"
    Presented on May 3, 2007
  • Marianella Casasola, Cornell U.
    "Exploring the Influence of Spatial Language on Infants' Spatial Categorization"
    Presented on April 26, 2007
  • Jim Goodson, UCSD
    "Neuro-Motivational Mechanisms and the Evolution of Sociality"
    Presented on April 19, 2007
  • Rick Grush, UCSD
    "The Return of the Specious Present"
    Presented on April 12, 2007
  • Norman Anderson, UCSD
    "Unified Science Based on Psychological Law"
    Presented on April 5, 2007
  • J. David Jentsch, UCLA
    "Poor Cognitive Control in Animal Models of Stimulant Addiction: Possible Mechanisms"
    Presented on November 9, 2006
  • Evan Heit, UC Merced
    "ROC and Reasoning"
    Presented on November 2, 2006
  • David Peterzell, UCSD
    "Cracking Sensory Codes Using Individual Differences"
    Presented on October 26, 2006
  • Rachel I. Mayberry, UCSD
    "Is there a Critical Period for Language? Nature and Nature in Complex Language Development."
    Presented on October 12, 2006
  • Victor Ferreira, UCSD
    "Ambiguity, Accessibility, and the Ingredients of Communicative Success"
    Presented on September 21, 2006
The 2005-2006 Series
  • Michael Gorman, UCSD
    "By the Light of the Slivery Moon: Plasticity and Entrainment of Circadian Oscillators"
    Presented on June 8, 2006
  • Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    "Understanding and Sharing Intentions: the Origins of Cultural Cognition"
    Presented on May 31, 2006
    The Norman Anderson Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Julian Betts, UCSD
    "The Economics of Education: An Overview of Some Recent Research"
    Presented on May 25, 2006
  • James Nieh, UCSD
    "Recruitment Communication in Stingless Bees: Olfactory Eavesdropping and Counterespionage Strategies"
    Presented on May 18, 2006
  • Arne Öhman, Karolinska Institute
    "Emotion Drives Attention"
    Presented on May 11, 2006
  • Ralph Adolphs, Caltech
    "Emotion, Social Cognition, and the Human Brain"
    Presented on May 4, 2005
  • Robert Stickgold, Harvard
    "Sleep, Memory, and Dreams: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach"
    Presented on April 20, 2006
  • Lera Boroditsky, Stanford
    "From Perception to Language and Back Again"
    Presented on April 13, 2006
  • Arthur Samuel, SUNY at Stony Brook
    "Learning New Words: The Emergence of Lexical Form and Function"
    Presented on April 6, 2006
  • Stephen Monsell, U. of Exeter
    "Preparing Mind and Brain for a Change of Task"
    Presented on December 1, 2005
  • Hany Farid, Dartmouth
    "Energy vs. Synchrony in Perceptual Grouping"
    Presented on November 3, 2005
  • Daniel Fessler, UCLA
    "Yuck as Adaptation: Evolutionary Perspectives on Disgust and Related Phenomena"
    Presented on October 27, 2005
  • Ladan Shams, UCLA
    "Visual Perception is Multisensory Perception"
    Presented on October 20, 2005
  • Alan Fiske, UCLA
    "Constituting, Communicating, and Cognizing Each of the Four Basic Social Relations"
    Presented on October 13, 2005
  • Fritz Strack, U. of Würzburg
    "A Dual-System Theory of Social Behavior"
    Presented on October 6, 2005
  • Jim Goodson, UCSD
    "Neural and Motivational Patterning of Sociality"
    Presented on September 29, 2005
  • Tim Rickard, UCSD
    "The Effect of Remembering on Memory: Investigations into Representation and Transfer"
    Presented on September 22, 2005
The 2004-2005 Series
  • David Crews, U. Texas, Austin
    "Evolution of Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Controlling Behavior"
    Presented on June 2, 2005
  • Gerald Clore, U. of Virginia
    "Feeling is Believing: Some Cognitive Consequences of Emotion"
    Presented on May 31, 2005
    The Norman Anderson Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Matthew Lieberman, UCLA
    "When Language Disrupts Affect: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach"
    Presented on May 19, 2005
  • David Schkade, UCSD
    "A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The Day Reconstruction Method"
    Presented on May 12, 2005
  • Hazel Markus, Stanford
    "Psychology: Made in the USA"
    Presented on May 5, 2005
  • Philip Tetlock, UC Berkeley
    "Expert political judgment: How good is it? How can we know?"
    Presented on April 28, 2005
  • Ruth Wood, USC
    "Anabolic Steroid Addiction? Insights from Animal Studies"
    Presented on April 21, 2005
  • Robert Boyd, UCLA
    "Economic Experiments in 15 Small Scale Societies"
    Presented on April 14, 2005
  • Michael Rugg, UC Irvine
    "Episodic Memory: A Perspective from Functional Neuroimaging"
    Presented on March 31, 2005
  • Don MacLeod, UCSD
    "Neural Limitations in Normal and Recovered Vision"
    Presented on February 24, 2005
  • David Faigman, UC Hastings
    "Constitutional Facts: The Essential Function of Fact-Finding in Setting Constitutional Norms"
    Presented on November 18, 2004
  • Michael Lewis, UMD New Jersey
    "Deception as an Evolutionary Adaptive Response"
    Presented on November 4, 2004
  • Gina Green, SDSU
    "Comparison of Intensive Behavior Analytic and Eclectic Treatments for Young Children with Autism"
    Presented on October 21, 2004
  • Mark A. McDaniel, Washington U. in St. Louis
    "Material Appropriate Difficulty: A Framework for Determining When Difficulty is Desirable for Learning"
    Presented on October 7, 2004
  • Jeffrey Kleim, U. of Lethbridge
    "Motor Map Plasticity: How the Brain Masters Movement"
    Presented on September 30, 2004
  • Hal Pashler, UCSD
    "Dual-Task Interference and Cognitive Architecture"
    Presented on September 23, 2004
The 2003-2004 Series
  • Craig Fox, UCLA
    "How Subjective Grouping Influences Judgment and Choice: Maximum Entropy Strategies and the Phenomenon of Partition Dependence."
    Presented on June 3, 2004
  • Geoff Boynton, Salk Institute
    "Individual Differences in Acuity Predict Cortical Maps in Primary Visual and Somatosensory Cortex"
    Presented on May 27, 2004
  • Linda Bartoshuk, Yale
    "Sensory Variation: Supertasters to Pain. What We Have Learned from Taste."
    Presented on May 20, 2004
    The Norman Anderson Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Maureen Callanan, UC Santa Cruz
    "Parent-Child Conversations as a Context for Early Cognitive Development"
    Presented on May 13, 2004
  • Russell Poldrack, UCLA
    "The Neural Basis of Classification Learning: Evidence for Interactive Memory Systems"
    Presented on May 6, 2004
  • Gottfried Schlaug, Harvard
    "Brain Effects of Musical Training"
    Presented on April 29, 2004
  • Michael H. Birnbaum, CSU Fullerton
    "The Case Against Prospect Theories of Decision Under Risk"
    Presented on April 22, 2004
  • Daniel Levitin, McGill University
    "Adventures in Pitch and Melody Perception"
    Presented on April 8, 2004
  • Darwin Muir, Queen's U. at Kingston, Ontario
    "Social Perception in Very Young Infants"
    Presented on April 1, 2004
  • Stuart Anstis, UCSD
    "I Thought I Saw it Move: Studies in Motion Perception"
    Presented on February 26, 2004
  • William Banks, Pomona College
    "Recognition memory as a perceptual event: a multidimensional analysis"
    Presented on December 11, 2003
  • Jean Twenge, SDSU
    "Social Exclusion and Prosocial Behavior"
    Presented on November 20, 2004
  • Michael Webster, U. of Nevada, Reno
    "Adaptation and the Phenomenology of Perception"
    Presented on November 13, 2003
  • Barbara Knowlton, UC Los Angeles
    "Habit Learning and the Basal Ganglia"
    Presented on October 30, 2003
  • Marian Sigman, UC Los Angeles
    "Predicting Developmental Gains in Children with Autism"
    Presented on October 9, 2003
  • Craig McKenzie, UC San Diego
    "Framing Effects and Rationality"
    Presented on September 25, 2003
The 2002-2003 Series
  • Alex Martin, NIH
    "Objects, Concepts, and the Brain"
    Presented on May 28, 2003
    The Cognitive Neuroscience Distinguished Speaker Series
  • John Jonides, U. of Michigan
    "Components of Executive Processing"
    Presented on May 21, 2003
    "Neural Mechanisms of Interference Resolution and Inhibition"
    Presented on May 22, 2003
    The Cognitive Neuroscience Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Elizabeth Loftus, UC Irvine
    "Grand Illusions of Memory"
    Presented on May 15, 2003
    The Norman Anderson Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Brian Wandell, Stanford University
    "Computational Neuroimaging: Cortical Maps, Plasticity, and Reading Development"
    Presented on May 14, 2003
    The Cognitive Neuroscience Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Karen J. Parker, Stanford University
    "The Neurobiology of Facultative Affiliation and Paternal Behavior in Meadow Voles"
    Presented on May 1, 2003
  • Caleb Finch, USC
    "Inflammatory Processes in Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Disease"
    Presented on April 17, 2003
  • Dare Baldwin, U. of Oregon
    "Action on Action"
    Presented on April 10, 2003
  • Richard Leo, UC Irvine
    "Influence, Persuasion and Compliance: The Psychology of Police Interrogation and Confession Evidence"
    Presented on November 21, 2002
  • David Funder, UC Riverside
    "The Accuracy of Personality Judgment"
    Presented on November 14, 2002
  • Claire Murphy, SDSU
    "Olfactory Function in Aging and Dementia: Insights from Psychophysics, ERP and fMRI"
    Presented on October 31, 2002
  • J. Anthony Movshon, NYU Center for Neural Science
    "Stability and Plasticity in Visual Development"
    Presented on October 24, 2002
  • George Sperling, UC Irvine
    "Motion and Attention"
    Presented on October 17, 2002
  • Keith Holyoak, UCLA
    "Rational Reasoning in Working Memory"
    Presented on October 3, 2002
Researchers and the general public are both welcome to attend the Psychology department's colloquia. Reservations are not required, and admission is free. If you have any questions regarding the department's colloquium series, then please write to colloquia@psy.ucsd.edu