Fall 2008 Schedule
Seminar Title: Applications of Biological Models to Behavioral Science
Faculty Organizers: Farrell Ackerman (Linguistics) and Nick Spitzer (Biology)
Description:
As a part of the celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday, the CHD seminar will focus on the role that ideas/results/models from biology can play on research in the behavioral sciences.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Readings |
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| 9/26/08 | Farrell Ackerman UC San Diego Department of Linguistics |
Organizational Meeting for COGS260 Enrolled Students | |
| 10/3/08 | Terry Sejnowski UC San Diego Division of Biological Sciences |
Developing Deep Cortical Hierarchies | |
| 10/10/08 | Joan Stiles UC San Diego Department of Cognitive Science |
Fundamentals of Brain Development: Integrating Nature and Nurture | |
| 10/17/08 | Gedeon Deák UC San Diego Department of Cognitive Science |
How Infants Learn Attention-Sharing Skills: Pointing Towards a Viable Theory [talk slides] | |
| 10/24/08 | Andrew Wedel University of Arizona Department of Linguistics |
Comparing Biological and Linguistic Evolution [talk slides] | |
| 10/31/08 | Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini University of Arizona Department of Cognitive Science |
The Return of the Laws of Form and (some) Perfection in Language [talk slides] | |
| 11/7/08 | Anna Dornhaus University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Collective and Individual Problem-Solving in Insects: Algorithmic Parallels to Human Brains and Societies [talk slides] | |
| 11/14/08 | Ajit Varki UC San Diego Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine |
Exploring Human Uniqueness: A Transdisciplinary Approach |
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| 11/21/08 | Bruce Weber CSU Fullerton Department of Biochemistry |
On the Origin of Symbolic Species: The Baldwin Effect and Emergent Complexity in the Darwin Research Tradition [talk slides] | |
| 11/28/08 | HOLIDAY | ||
| 12/5/08 | Bill Croft University of New Mexico Department of Linguistics |
Evolutionary Linguistics: An Emerging Paradigm for the 21st Century |
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