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Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Knowledge: Where Vision Meets Memory
May 29 - May 31, 2008
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Speakers
Jocelyne Bachevalier
"Medial Temporal Lobe Structures and Memory: What Have We Learned from Lesion
Studies in Nonhuman Primates?"
Professor, Department of Psychology
Emory University
Neal J. Cohen
"Hippocampus and Relational Memory in the Construction and Use of Visual
Representations."
Professor, Brain and Cognition Division
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charles E. Connor
"The Neural Basis Of Knowledge About Object Structure."
Associate Professor, Mind/Brain Institute
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert Cook
"Avian Perspectives On Visual Knowledge: The Bird's Eye View."
Professor, Department of Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychology
Tufts University
Stephen Grossberg
"How does the brain know what an object is? A synthesis of visual
perception, attention, search, and category learning."
Professor, Cognitive and Neural Systems
Professor, Departments of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical
Engineering
Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Director, Center for Adaptive Systems
Director, Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and
Technology
Ray Jackendoff
"What and Where in Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition."
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies
Tufts University
Stephen M. Kosslyn
"Is One Cerebral Hemisphere More 'Perceptual' than the Other?"
Professor, Department of Psychology
Harvard University
Alex Martin
"Fine tuning conceptual representations: A role for the anterior
temporal lobes?"
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition
National Institute of Health
Ken A. Paller
"Distinguishing explicit memory and conceptual implicit memory
electrophysiologically."
Professor, Department of Psychology
Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Program
Director, Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition
Northwestern University
Mary A. Peterson
"Inhibitory Competition in Figure-Ground Perception: Effects of
Familiarity and Context."
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Arizona
Lynn C. Robertson
"Visual Representations of Undetected Stimuli: Evidence from Patients
with Unilateral Visual Extinction."
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology
University of California at Berkeley
Suparna Rajaram
"Memory and Awareness: Means of Access and Processing Requirements."
Professor of Psychology
Stony Brook University
Haline E. Schendan
"When and Where Vision Meets Memory: Prefrontal-Posterior Cortical
Dynamics for Visual Object Knowledge."
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Tufts University Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Boston University Visiting Scientist, MGH-NMR Center
Harvard Medical School
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
"When Hand-Sight is 20/20: How Sensorimotor Experience Affects Memory for
Object Appearance."
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
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