:: p.c.d readings/speakers for spring '12 ::
30 Apr:
- Platt, L. & Adams, G. K. (13 Apr 2012). Monkey see, monkey read. Science, 336, 168-169.
- Grainger, J., Dufau, S., Montant, M., Ziegler, J. C., Fagot, J. (13 Apr 2012). Orthographic processing in Baboon (papio papio). Science, 336, 245-248. supplementary material
23 Apr: no meeting
16 Apr:
- Alter, A. L. & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2009). Uniting the tribes of fluency to form a metacognitive nation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13(3), 219-235.
9 Apr:
- Cohen, M. A., Alvarez, G. A., & Nakayma, K. (2011). Natural-scene perception requires attention. Psychlogical Science, 22(9), 1165-1172.
2 Apr:
- Kendrick, K.M. (2008). Sheep senses, social cognition, and capacity for consciousness. In C.M. Dwyer, The welfare of sheep, pp. 135--157. Springer.
- Edelman, S. (25 Mar 2012). The ghost constructed by the machine: What is it like to be a sheep? Psychology Today, blog.
26 Mar:
- Kurzban, R. & Barrett, H. C. (2 Mar 2012). Origins and cumulative culture. Science, 335, 1056-1057.
- Dean, L. G., Kendal, R. L., Schapiro, S. J., Thierry, B., & Laland, K. N. (2 Mar 2012). Identification of the social and cognitive processes underlying human cumulative culture. Science, 335, , 1114-1118. supplementary material
19 mar: spring break
12 Mar:
- Levinson, S. C. & Gray, R. D. (Mar 2012). Tools from evolutionary biology shed new light on the diversification of languages, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16, 165-173. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.007
5 Mar:
- Dale, R., Kirkham, N.Z, & Richardson, D.C. (30 Nov 2011). The dynamics of reference and shared visual attention, Frontiers in Psychology, 2, Article 35. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00355.
27 feb:
- Neisser, U. (2007). Ulric Neisser. In G. Lindzey & W. M. Runyan, A history of psychology in autobiograhpy, vol 9, 269-301. Washington, DC: APA
- tributes to Dick Neisser. from members of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
- New York Times obituary, 26 Feb 2012, Dick Neisser obit.
20 feb:
- Hasson, U., Ghazanfar, A. A., Galantucci, B., Garrod, S., & Keysers, C. (Feb 2012). Brain-to-brain coupling: A mechanism for creating and sharing a social world, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(2), 114-121. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.12.007.
13 feb:
- Felix Thoemmes will speak on his general approach to stats and methods
6 feb:
- Whitney Tabor (UConn) will speak on: "Learning recurson."
30 jan:
- Whitham, E.M. et al. (07 Dec 2011). Visual experience during paralysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, article 160. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00160.
23 Jan:
- no meeting
:: p.c.d readings/speakers for fall '11 ::
21 Nov:
- Mickes, L., Wais, P. E., & Wixted, J. T. (2009). Recollection is a continuous process. Psychological Science, 20, 509-515.
- Palmer, S. E. & Schloss, K. B. (11 May 2010). An ecological valence theory of human color preference. PNAS, 107(19), 8877-8882.
14 Nov:
- Boroditsky, L. (2007). Comparison and the development of knowledge. Cognition, 102, 118-128. doi: 10.1016/jcognition.2002.08.001.
- Finn, B. & Roediger, H. L. (2011). Enhancing retention through reconsolidation: Negative emotional arousal following retrieval enhances later recall. Psychological Science, 20(10), 1-6. doi: 10.1177/0956797611407932.
7 Nov:
- Cabeza, R., et al. (in press). Overlapping parietal activity in memory and perception: Evidence for the attention to memory model. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
31 Oct:
- Simmons, J. P, Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (17 Oct 2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science, online first. doi/10.1177/0956797611417632.
24 Oct:
- Melissa Troyer (MIT) will speak on: "Investigating storage and computation in syntax using relative clause priming."
17 Oct:
- Rajeev Raizada (Cornell, Human Development) will speak on: "Representing the meaning of words: Neural similarity matches semantic similarity."
10 Oct: Fall Break
3 Oct:
- Moussaïd, M., Helbing, D., Theraulaz, G. (2011). How simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasters. PNAS online, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1016507108. supplementary material
26 Sept:
- Purves, D., Wojtach, W. T., & Lotto, R. B. (2011). Understanding vision in wholy empirical terms. PNAS online, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1012178108.
19 Sept:
- Schooler, J. W., Smallwood, J., Christoff, K., Handy, T. C., Reichle, E. D., & Sayette, M. A. (2011). Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling, and the wandering mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(7), 319-326. doi:10:1016/j.tics.2011.05.006.
12 Sept:
- Cahalane, D. J., Charvet, C. J., Collins, C. E., & Finlay, B. L. (submitted). Systematic, balancing gradients in neuron density and number per column across primate neocortex.
5 Sept: Labor Day, no class
29 Aug:
- Shukla, M., White, K. S., & Aslin, R. N. (12 Apr 2011). Prosody guides the rapid mapping of auditory word form onto visual objects in 6-mo-old infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(15), 6038-6043, doi:10.1073/pnas.10179117108.