NACS Seminars

Each seminar is one hour long, followed by a short discussion period and light luncheon. Room 1208 Biology-Psychology Building, 12 Noon.

Date	Name	General Topic
September 21, 2007	DR. EVAN BALABAN	Studies in auditory development and function: Brain switching, predispositions, and pitch processing
September 28, 2007	DR. JONATHAN SIMON	Foreground and background at the cocktail party: The role of auditory attention in neural processing and behavior
October 05, 2007	DR. PIER FRANCESCO FERRARI	Mirror neurons and the acting brain
October 12, 2007	DR. MORTIMER MISHKIN	Auditory memory in the monkey and the anatomy of speech and language
October 19, 2007	DR. EARL MILLER	Rules, Concepts, and Executive Brain Functions
October 26, 2007	DR. MICHAEL LEWICKI	Natural Sounds and Auditory Coding
November 02, 2007	No Seminar
November 09, 2007	DR. HIROSHI RIQUIMAROUX	Echoes recorded at the head of flying bats tell us how they listen to their targets
November 16, 2007	DR. WILLIAM BROWNELL	Hair Cell Membranes Tune Cochlear Function
November 30, 2007	DR. HOLLIS CLINE	Synapse Elimination in Circuit Development: Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
December 07, 2007	DR. ROBERT C. FROEMKE	A synaptic memory trace for cortical receptive field plasticity
January 25, 2008	No Seminar
February 01, 2008	DR. KAREL SVOBODA	Imaging synapses and their circuits
February 08, 2008	DR. STUART FIRESTEIN	Making Sense of Scents, the mammalian olfactory system
February 15, 2008	No Seminar
February 22, 2008	Daniel Bullock, Ph.D.	Exploring computational implications of microcircuit specializations in the fronto-striatal system
February 29, 2008	Rodolfo Rivas Memorial Lecturer, Antoine Bechara, Ph.D.	Decision making, impulse control and loss of willpower to resist drugs: a neurocognitive perspective
March 07, 2008	DR. DONATA OERTEL	The cochlear nuclei in normally hearing and deaf mice
March 14, 2008	Dr. Jennifer Morgan	Cytoskeletal regulation of nervous system function: Actin' around at synapses during vesicle recycling and spinal cord regeneration
March 28, 2008	DR. CARLOS AIZENMANN	Functional regulation of a developing visual circuit
April 04, 2008	DR. RODRIGO ANDRADE	TRPC channels mediate muscarinic receptor excitation of cortical pyramidal cells
April 11, 2008	DR. RICK COTE	Biochemical and evolutionary perspectives on the structure and regulation of the central enzyme in vertebrate vision, cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDE6)
April 18, 2008	Dr. William Guido	Development of the retinogeniculate pathway: structure, function, and underlying mechanisms
April 25, 2008	DR. FRANCIS MACRINA	The Changing Dimensions of Authorship
May 02, 2008	DR. LEA ZISKIND-CONHAIM	To be or not to be a rhythmogenic interneuron in the locomotor circuitry in the mammalian spinal cord
May 09, 2008	David G. Amaral, Ph.D.	Neurobiological and Neuroimmune Approaches to the Understanding of Autism
May 30, 2008	Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD	Model-based Studies of Human Object Recognition: Integrating neuronal processing, fMRI, and behavior

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