Ebbinghaus Empire Series 2011-2012
All Ebbinghaus talks take place in room 3130 (3rd floor), Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Streeton Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
ALL ARE WELCOME
WINTER 2012
January 11 SARA SHETTLEWORTH (Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto)
Title: Modularity, Comparative Cognition, and Human Uniqueness
January 18 CANCELLED
January 25 KELLY MURPHY (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre; Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: The influence of experimental research on behavioural intervention for mild cognitive impairment
February 1 JONATHAN FREEDMAN (Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: How Do We Manipulate This? How Do We Measure That?
February 8 NINA MAZAR (Marketing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Title: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Morality
February 15 DATA BLITZ: Psychology Graduate Students and Post-Docs Present Their Research
| - Mike Armson, Levine lab, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre: The effects of memory remoteness on recall and recognition: development of a novel measure of naturalistic memory - Tracey Herlihey, Ferber lab, Psychology: Walking trajectories in patients with Unilateral Neglect: insights from healthy controls - Lok-Kin Yeung, Barense lab, Psychology: Recognition Memory Impairments Caused by Novel Objects Falsely Recognized as Familiar - Carson Pun, Ferber lab, Psychology: In and Out of Consciousness: Sustained Electrophysiological Activity Reflects Individual Differences in Perceptual Awareness - Joan Ng, Hasher lab, Psychology: Semantic Interference Resolution in Memory: Suppression of Competing Information" - Tim Koscik, Anderson lab, Psychology: Trust in 191 Brain Damaged Patients - Rosanna Olsen, Ryan lab, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre: Eye-movements during the maintenance of spatial information |
February 29 DONALD STUSS (President & Scientific Director, Ontario Brain Institute; Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: The Real World of Science Outside the Lab: The Ontario Brain Institute Odyssey
March 7 EVE DE ROSA (Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: The Yin and Yang of Attention
March 14 CHERYL GRADY (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre; Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: The Importance of Being Variable: Understanding Variability in Brain Activity and why it Matters
Note Location Change: Room 560A, Ground Floor, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street
March 21 SYLVAIN MORENO (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre; Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: Brain Plasticity from Perception to Cognition: The Role of Video Games in Altering Brain Function
March 28 ANNUAL ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND KLAERU CONFERENCE
http://research.baycrest.org/conference
For further information please contact Lynn Hasher, hasher@psych.utoronto.ca
FALL 2011
September 28 DATA BLITZ (with inaugural free pizza)
October 5 STEPHANIE GOODHEW (Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: On the fate of visual stimuli masked by object substitution
October 12 DAVID MANDEL (Defence Research and Development Canada-Toronto)
Title: Framing, Language, and Reason
October 19 TIMOTHY WELSH (Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto)
Title: The way two complete a task and learn from each other: Attention and action in social movement contexts
October 26 JED MELTZER (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre)
Title: Language and the three halves of the brain
November 2 KEITH OATLEY (Human Development & Applied Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: Six reasons why the psychology of fiction is important for psychology generally
November 9 ADAM ANDERSON (Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: The Positive Neuroscience Project (PNP)
November 16 KAREN CAMPBELL (Psychology, University of Toronto)
Title: Age differences in attentional control: Implications for associative memory
November 23 JASON OZUBKO (Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre)
Title: Is cued recall really superior to free recall? Item-specific cues improve the accuracy of guesses but provide no true memory benefit
November 30 LIXIA YANG (Psychology, Ryerson University)
Title: The self-reference effect in emotional memory: Spontaneous or effortful mnemonic benefits?
December 7 CAROL GREENWOOD (Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto)
Title: The fattening of America: Cognitive implications
For further information please contact Lynn Hasher, hasher@psych.utoronto.ca