Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar: 2007-2008 Series
All Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar meetings are held at 10am, in the Sergievsky Center Conference Room, 19th Floor, Presbyterian Hospital Building on the Columbia University Medical Center Campus. For information please contact Karen Siedlecki (ks2513@columbia.edu), Cindy Gooch (cg2341@columbia.edu), or Margarita Padilla-Velez (mpv@sergievsky.cpmc.columbia.edu)
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 1/10/2008 | Dr. Yaakov Stern | CUMC Sergievsky Center | The Predictors Study, Past and Future |
| 1/172008 | Dr. Karen Siedlecki | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Investigating quality-of-life in the Predictors study |
| 1/24/2008 | Dr. Brent Field | Princeton University | The attention-enjoyment link: How distraction effects the brain structures mediating hedonic value. |
| 1/31/2008 | TBA | ||
| 2/7/2008 | Dr. Jose Luchsinger | Department of Medicine, Columbia University | Relationship of vascular and dietary factors with cognitive impairment in WHICAP |
| 2/14/2008 | Dr. Daphna Shohamy | Psychology Dept Columbia U | TBA |
| 2/21/2008 | Dr. Joe Lee | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Evaluation of PS1 carriers in familial AD |
| 2/28/2008 | Dr. Dev Devanand | CUMC Department of Psychiatry | Predictors of conversion to Alzheimer's disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment |
| 3/6/2008 | Dr. Kate Arrington | Lehigh University | Choices, choices: Factors influencing task choice in the voluntary task switching paradigm |
| 3/13/2008 | Dr. Brian Rakitin | CUMCSergievsky Center | TBA |
| 3/20/2008 | No Seminar | No Seminar | No Seminar |
| 3/27/2008 | Dr. Victoria Moceri | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Early brain development, extrapyramidal signs and psychosis in Alzheimer's disease |
| 4/3/2008 | Dr. Anja Soldan | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Implicit memory in aging |
| 4/10/2008 | Dr. Nicolaos Scarmeas | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Diet for cognition updates |
| 4/17/2008 | Dr. Alexander D. Klose and Dr. Andreas H. Hielscher |
Dept of Radiology Columbia U. | TBA |
| 4/24/2008 | TBA | ||
| 5/1/2008 | Dr. Cindy Gooch | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Memory for time in older and younger adults |
| 5/8/2008 | Dr. Roee Holtzer | Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Yeshiva University | TBA |
| 5/15/2008 | Dr. Margarita Padilla-Velez | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Self-Reported use of mnemonics has unique predictive ability in daily function beyond that of neuropsychological measures of memory |
| 5/22/2008 | Dr. Veronica Hinton | CUMC Sergievsky Center | TBA |
| 5/29/2008 | Dr. Jason Steffener | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Modeling age-related decision processing |
| 6/5/2008 | Dr. Jennifer Manly | CUMC Sergievsky Center | TBA |
| 6/12/2008 | Dr. Karen Siedlecki | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Changes in relations among memory variables across age |
| 6/19/2008 | Dr. Adam Brickman | CUMC Sergievsky Center | Not all that matter is gray |
Columbia University
University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience (2007-08)
Chairs - Yaakov Stern and Herb Terrace
All meetings are held at 4PM, in the Faculty House on the
Morningside Campus.
For directions to the Faculty House see:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/fachouse/directions.html
For information please contact Patricia Wilson (paw2102@columbia.edu)
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Topic |
| Sept 20 | Hilary Barth | Connecticut University | TBA |
| Oct. 25 | John Sidtis | What the Speaking Brain Tells Us About Functional Imaging | |
| Nov. 29 | Robert H. Wurtz | NIH | TBA |
| Jan. 24 | Argye Hillis | Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology | Insights into Brain/Language |
| Feb. 28 | Jereby Wolfe | Harvard | "Visual Search Gets Real" |
| Mar. 27 | Earl Miller | MIT | TBA |
| Apr. 24 | Nancy Kanwisher | MIT | "Spatial Patterns of fMRI response within cortical regions: What information do they contain and what can they tell us about the function of that region?" |