News & Events

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) events and other cognitive neuroscience talks on campus are listed here.

Events

• CCN Talk Series. Monthly on Mondays with visiting and in-house speakers; scheduled from 12 PM to 1:15 PM.
  Location: IRCS, Large Seminar Room, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
  
  

  March 3, 2008 "Individual versus collective memory: Reciprocal influences."
  Dr. Suparna Rajaram, SUNY Stonybrook

  April 7, 2008 "Social perception deficits in autism: converging MRI evidence for temporal lobe system involvement."
  Dr. Robert Schultz, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

May 5, 2008 "How We Remember: Evidence for Domain-General and Domain-Specific Learning Mechanisms."
Dr. Lila Davachi, New York University


• Neuroethics Lecture Series. Monthly on the fourth Thursday with visiting and in-house speakers; scheduled from 4:00 to 5:30 PM. Location: CCN Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, 3810 Walnut Street. [Download PDF]
  
  
• IRCS/CCN Brain and Language Discussion Group. Every two weeks on Wednesdays with visiting and in-house speakers presentating and discussing research results and research in progress; scheduled from 3:00 to 4:30 PM.
  Location: IRCS, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
  
  
• IRCS/CCN 10th Annual Undergraduate Summer Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. Each year, the cognitive science community at Penn brings together the best and brightest undergraduate students from around the world to learn about the growing fields of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.
  
  
• PSYC 751: Spatial Cognition Seminar (Spring 2008). Thursdays 4:40-7:10 PM. This seminar will review current topics in spatial cognition, including the areas of spatial memory, spatial navigation, and mental transformations. Both the cognitive and neural bases of these functions will be addressed. During the semester, approximately every other week, outside experts in the field will visit the class to present their work. Students will prepare for these visits by reading and discussing each visitor’s recent papers. The visitor list for Spring 08 includes: Ben Kuipers (Computer Science, U Texas), Tim McNamara (Psychology, Vanderbilt), Lynn Nadel (Neuroscience, Arizona), Frances Wang (Psychology, Illinois), Barbara Tversky (Psychology, Columbia), William Warren (Cognitive Science, Brown), and Dan Montello (Geography, UCSB).
  Instructors: Dr. Russell Epstein (U Penn) and Dr. Tim Shipley (Temple)
  Location: Temple Center City Campus (1515 Market Street)

• CCN Beer Hour
  Last Friday of the month from 4-5 p.m at 3810 Walnut Street, 3rd Floor
  

Other Events of Interest

• 10th Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture: Christoph Koch, Professor of Biology and Engineering California Institute of Technology, "The Biology of Consciousness." Friday, March 28, 2008 at 12 Noon. Location: Room G17, Logan Hall. Reception to follow.

• The Levin Family Dean's Forum Lecture: Dr. Steven Pinker, Harvard professor, experimental psychologist, popular science writer "The Stuff of Thought."
  Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 4:30 pm, Irvine Auditorium.

• "From Animal to Person: The Role of Cultural Evolution." The Philomathean Annual Oration given by Dr. Daniel Dennett. Room G06, Huntsman Hall. 6:00-8:30 PM on Friday, April 18th. Reception to follow in the Philomathean Halls, located on the 4th floor of College Hall. For more information, visit www.philomathean.org
  
  
• INS Neuroscience colloqium series. Weekly on Wednesdays, discussing all aspects of neuroscience; scheduled at 4:00 PM.
  Location: INS, 3620 Hamilton Walk, John Morgan Building, 140, Barchi Library


• IRCS colloquium series. Weekly on Fridays, discussing all aspects of cognitive science; scheduled at noon.
  Location: IRCS, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A


• Center for Functional Neuroimaging events
  
  
• Psychology colloquium series


• Vision seminars

News

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Four new professors join core faculty

CCN faculty help launch Neuroethics Society

CCN Annual Report