CVCN Colloquium Series 2008
Each year, the CVCN invites leading researchers in the fields of visual and cognitive neurosciences to our laboratories and the NDSU campus to meet with faculty and students to exchange ideas and information, and to give public presentations describing important new discoveries made in their own laboratories. Here is a list of 2008 speakers.Fall 2008 Speakers
06/15
Michael Nicholls, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria
Australia
Free-viewing perceptual asymmetries
11/21
Jonathan Geiger, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND
Recent studies on caffeine protection against Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease
11/14
Krish Sathian, Ph.D., M.D.
Departments of Neurology, Rehabilitation Medicine and Psychology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Feeling – with the mind's eye?
10/31
Mark Brady, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND
Fearsome objects and a new theory of change blindness
10/24
Charles Gray, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Distributed cortical processing and visual working memory
10/17
Yuhong Jiang, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Capacity limitations in visual perception and memory
10/10
Kyle Chambers, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN
Primed to learn: Language processing in adults and infants
10/03
David Patterson, Ph.D.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
University of Washington,
Seattle, WA
Hypnosis, pain, and virtual reality
09/26
Edward Awh, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
Quantity or quality? The distinction between number and resolution in visual working memory
09/12
Pauline Pearson, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Canada
Visual memory for scenes and colour
Spring 2008 Speakers
04/18
Jonathan Marotta, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
Perception and action: Aging, stroke, and neurological impairments
03/19
Moshe Szyf, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
McGill University
Montreal, CA
The human epigenome: Effects of environment on DNA methylation
02/22
Jack Nitschke, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Neuroimaging anxiety and the power of expectancy in the human brain
02/22
Reiko Graham, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
Sensitivity to morphed facial expressions: Neural correlates, development and individual differences
02/08
Lynnette Leone, M.S.
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND
Audiovisual multisensory facilitation: A fresh look at neural coactivation and inverse effectiveness
01/25
Mark Nawrot, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND
The pursuit theory of motion parallax: Drunks, crossed-eyes, monkeys, babies, movies, and pending adventures