Cognitive Brown Bag
Fall 2007
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Oct 03, 2007 | Dale Barr | UC Riverside | Analyzing proportional data with ANOVA? Be afraid, be VERY afraid |
| Oct 10, 2007 | Larry Rosenblum | UC Riverside | Signs from Above: Recent Challenges to Amodal Speech Perception Theories |
| Oct 17, 2007 | Jesse Breneman | UC Riverside | Probative Value of Absolute and Relative Decision Rules in Eyewitness Identification |
| Oct 24, 2007 | Christine Chiarello | UC Riverside | Individual Differences in Language Representation in the Brain |
| Oct 31, 2007 | Michael Erickson | UC Riverside | Executive Attention and Task Switching in Category Learning: Evidence for Stimulus-Dependent Representation |
| Nov 07, 2007 | |||
| Nov 14, 2007 | Psychonomics Prep | ||
| Nov 21, 2007 | Rachel Miller | UC Riverside | Answer my questions: Modeling gestural drift |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Ethan Chamberlain | UC Riverside | Long term Myopia and Audition |
| Dec 05, 2007 | Pia Knoeferle | UC San Diego | The incremental influence of scene information on language comprehension: evidence from eye tracking and ERPs |
Winter 2008
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Jan 09, 2008 | Nancy Alvarado and Kimberly A. Jameson | Cal Poly Pomona and UC Irvine | The interplay between culture, cognition and neurophysiology in the categorization of color |
| Jan 16, 2008 | Mari Sanchez | UC Riverside | A look toward amodal speech and how it influences memory , or: Video enhanced the radio star |
| Jan 23, 2008 | Khaleel Razak | UC Riverside | Dual auditory stream processing in bats and humans |
| Jan 30, 2008 | Justin Estep | UC Riverside | Initial Task Difficulty and Category Learning |
| Feb 06, 2008 | Larry Rosenblum | UC Riverside | Hooray for Hollywood: Psychoacoustic Lessons from the Entertainment Industry |
| Feb 13, 2008 | |||
| Feb 20, 2008 | Robert Thornton | Pomona College | Grammatical agreement as a testing ground for theories of language |
| Feb 27, 2008 | Tim Gentner | UC San Diego | Mechanisms for processing temporal acoustic patterns in birdsongs |
| Mar 05, 2008 | Russell Pierce | UC Riverside | A Preliminary Comparison of the Validity of Situation Awareness Measures in a Simulated Air Traffic Control Task |
| Mar 12, 2008 | Anne Cybenko | UC Riverside | Advantages and Disadvantages of the Same Foils Design |
Spring 2008
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Apr 02, 2008 | Jonathan Nelson | UC San Diego | Beyond biases: human inference and information search |
| Apr 09, 2008 | CANCELLED | ||
| Apr 16, 2008 | Christiana Leonard | University of Florida, Gainsville | Left hemisphere anatomical specializations for language |
| Apr 23, 2008 | NO BROWN BAG | Colloquium speaker this week | |
| Apr 30, 2008 | NO BROWN BAG | Colloquium speaker this week | |
| May 07, 2008 | Timothy Gann | UC Riverside | Dual routes to reference |
| May 14, 2008 | Ryan Robart | UC Riverside | Hearing your place: Identifying room position by reflected sound |
| May 21, 2008 | Ryan Rush | UC Riverside | Using Lineup Composition to Distinguish Between Absolute and Relative Decision Rules |
| May 28, 2008 | Larry Rosenblum | UC Riverside | Silent But Deadly: Investigating the Audibility of Hybrid Cars |
| Jun 04, 2008 | Jeffery Mio | Cal Poly Pomona |
Fall 2008
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Oct 01, 2008 | Aaron Seitz | UC Riverside | An Interesting Finding in Motion Perception |
| Oct 08, 2008 | Steven Clark | UC Riverside | Risky decisions for eyewitnesses, jurors, and policy-makers |
| Oct 15, 2008 | Patrick LaShell | UC RIverside | What’s in a Rule: Multidimensional Rules in Categorization |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Dale Barr and Edmundo Kronmuller | UC Riverside and CNRS, University of Lyon, France | Using precedents to find referents |
| Oct 29, 2008 | Curt Burgess & Martin Johnson | UC Riverside Depts. of Psychology & Political Science | Applying High-Dimensional Modeling to Abstract Political Concepts |
| Nov 05, 2008 | Michael Erickson & Elizabeth Melton | UC Riverside | Selection-for-Action and Negative Priming |
| Nov 12, 2008 | No Cog Lunch due to Psychonomics | ||
| Nov 19, 2008 | Psychonomics Discussion | ||
| Nov 26, 2008 | Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| Dec 03, 2008 | Ryan Rush | UC Riverside | Contagion Memory: The Effects of Collaboration on Witness Recall |
Winter 2009
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Jan 07, 2009 | Lisa E. Hasel | Iowa State University | Following the Leader: How Eyewitness Identification Decisions are Influenced by Social Factors |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Kate Sweeny | UC Riverside | How I (Barely) Survived the Academic Job Market |
| Jan 21, 2009 | Vivian Ciaramitaro | Salk Institute | Associative Learning Within and Across Sensory Modalities Influences Sensory Processing and Early Sensory Areas in Human Cortex |
| Jan 28, 2009 | Professional Development Round Table | ||
| Feb 04, 2009 | Russell Pierce | UC Riverside | Interplay between memory processes and executive control in referential communication |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Dale Barr | UC Riverside | The time-course of cultural differences in perspective taking |
| Feb 18, 2009 | Robert Youmans | California State University at Northridge | Keeping Yourself Honest: The Effects of Cognitive-Information Feedback on Distorted Decision Making |
| Feb 25, 2009 | Travellia F. Tjokro | UC Riverside | The Right Hemisphere: An Investigation into Its Roles in New Word Acquisition and Possible Individual Differences |
| Mar 04, 2009 | David Noelle | UC Merced | Prefrontal Cortex, Dopamine, and Autism: Computational Connections |
| Mar 11, 2009 | Canceled for Colloquium |
Spring 2009
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Apr 01, 2009 | John Andersen | UC Riverside | Aging and vision: what declines, what stays the same, and what can be improved |
| Apr 08, 2009 | Anne Cybenko | UC Riverside | A discussion on attention and automaticity |
| Apr 15, 2009 | Vanessa Miller | UC Riverside | The Role of Emotion Perception and Experience on Laterality |
| Apr 22, 2009 | Rachel Miller | UC Riverside | Investigating perceptual measures of speech alignment |
| Apr 29, 2009 | Matthew Chalk | Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh | Does feature-based attention bias perception? |
| May 06, 2009 | Ryan Robart | UC Riverside | The effects of induction on auditory perceptual grouping: Apparent motion vs. frequency proximity |
| May 13, 2009 | Julie Kang | UC Riverside | Eye Movements as an Indice for Workload in Dual Task Driving |
| May 20, 2009 | Stacey Wood | Scripps College | How much choice is too much: the case of the medicare prescription drug benefit |
| May 27, 2009 | David Horner | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | The Perception of Spatial Patterns on the Fingerpad |
| Jun 03, 2009 | Justin Estep | UC Riverside | Correlates of Task Partitioning in a Rule and Exception Category Structure |
Fall 2009
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Sep 24, 2009 | Norbert Kopco | Department of Cybernetics and AI, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia ; Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University | Special Time 3:30 on Thursday; Visual calibration, task-specific plasticity, and uncertainty processing in sound localization |
| Sep 30, 2009 | CANCELLED (due to Kopco Talk on Sept. 24) | ||
| Oct 07, 2009 | Sara Mednick | UC San Diego | The role of sleep in cognition: from perception to creativity |
| Oct 14, 2009 | Steve Clark | University of California, Riverside | Probative value of absolute and relative judgments in eyewitness identification |
| Oct 21, 2009 | Christophe Le Dantec | UCR | Time Duration Brain and Performance |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Nicole Gage | UC Irvine | Tuning in and tuning out: MEG measures of neural resource allocation for speech and nonspeech in auditory language cortex in typically developing children |
| Nov 04, 2009 | Russell Pierce | UCR | Individual differences in executive function, eye movements and dual task performance |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Holiday | ||
| Nov 18, 2009 | Russell Jackson | California State University San Marcos | Evolved Navigation Theory |
| Nov 25, 2009 | Chris Chase | Western University of Health Sciences | Reading is more than phonology: What optometry has to offer |
| Dec 02, 2009 | Lawrence D. Rosenblum | University of California, Riverside |
Winter 2010
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Jan 06, 2010 | Gabriel I. Cook | Claremont McKenna College | Attentional-Allocation Policies Systematically Affect Cue Detection, Cue Interference, and Task Interference for Event-Based Intentions |
| Jan 13, 2010 | Justin Estep | UCR | Differential Costs of Taxing Working Memory for Category Learning |
| Jan 20, 2010 | Cancelled | ||
| Jan 27, 2010 | Ladan Shams | UCLA | Crossmodal Interactions in Perception |
| Feb 03, 2010 | Takeo Watanabe | Boston University | Perceptual learning as a result of an exposed feature being internally enhanced |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Jeffrey Bower | UCR | Age related changes in motion processing and perceptual learning |
| Feb 17, 2010 | Anne Cybenko | UCR | Description-Matched Selection of Foils in Experimental and Real World Lineups |
| Feb 24, 2010 | forum on professional development | ||
| Mar 03, 2010 | Gui Xue | USC | How practice makes perfect: Repeated study improves memory by neural pattern reinstatement |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Ryan Rush | UCR | Using Lineup Composition to Distinguish Between Absolute and Relative Decision Rules |
Spring 2010
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Apr 07, 2010 | Vanessa Miller | UCR | Preliminary Experiment; Emotion Perception on Laterality |
| Apr 14, 2010 | Rachel Miller | UCR | Talker-specific accent: Can speech alignment reveal idiolectic influences during the perception of accented speech? |
| Apr 21, 2010 | Patrick LaShell | UCR | What’s in a Rule: Two-Dimensional Rule Use in Category Learning |
| Apr 28, 2010 | CANCELLED | ||
| May 05, 2010 | Travellia F. Tjokro | UCR | The Right Hemisphere: An Investigation into Its Roles in New Word Acquisition and Possible Individual Differences |
| May 12, 2010 | Mari Sanchez | UCR | : Cross-Modal Talker Familiarity: Words and Talkers and Noise (Oh my!) |
| May 19, 2010 | Julie Kang | UCR | CANCELLED |
| May 26, 2010 | Elizabeth Melton | UCR | The Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Memory in Negative and Positive Priming |
| Jun 02, 2010 | Molly Moreland | UCR | Refining Detection of Stimulus-Dependent Representation |
Fall 2010
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Sep 29, 2010 | No Cog Lunch | ||
| Oct 06, 2010 | Zhong-Lin Lu | University of Southern California | Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Visual Attention |
| Oct 13, 2010 | Christophe Le Dantec | University of California, RIverside | The co-development of Perceptual Learning and Contextual Learning in a visual search task |
| Oct 20, 2010 | Angela Yu | University of California, San Diego | Wherefore a Horse Race: Inhibitory Control as Rational Decision-Making |
| Oct 27, 2010 | Craig Bennett | University of California, Santa Barbara | Statistical issues in functional neuroimaging: independence, reliability, and dead fish |
| Nov 03, 2010 | Alexander A. Petrov | Ohio State University | Perceptual Learning: Data and Models |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Peggy Series | University of Edinburgh | Sensory Adaptation, Expectations and the Origin of Perceptual Biases. |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Cancelled due to SFN and Psychonomics | ||
| Nov 19, 2010 | Kristina Visscher | University of Alabama at Birmingham | How does ongoing neural activity shape behavior? Clues from fMRI and EEG data |
| Nov 24, 2010 | No Cog Lunch (Thanksgiving) | ||
| Dec 01, 2010 | Stephen Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde | Barrow Neurological Institute | Sleights of Mind: How the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals Our Everyday Deceptions |
Winter 2011
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Jan 05, 2011 | CANCELLED | ||
| Jan 12, 2011 | Steve Clark | University of California, Riverside | Eyewitness Identification Reform: Decision Theories, Procedural Justice, and the Cost of Protecting the Innocent |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Ryan Rush | University of California, Riverside | Social Contagion of Correct and Incorrect Information in Memory |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Cognitive Area Faculty Meeting | ||
| Feb 02, 2011 | Alan Moore | University of California, Riverside | The Experience of Reading: A Quantitative Study of Consciousness |
| Feb 09, 2011 | Aaron Seitz | University of California, Riverside | Task-Irrelevant Auditory Learning |
| Feb 16, 2011 | Virginie Leclercq | University of California, RIverside | Development of spatial attention in children and how attention leads to learning of background information in adults. |
| Feb 23, 2011 | Russell Pierce | University of California, RIverside | Age related differences in the spatial extent of attention in 3D space |
| Mar 02, 2011 | Bosco Tjan | Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California | Object recognition in the Periphery |
| Mar 09, 2011 | Barbara Cherry | California State University, Fullerton | Aging and Interhemispheric Collaboration: Digits and Dots |
Spring 2011
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Mar 30, 2011 | Rachel Miller | University of California, Riverside | Talker-Specific Accent: The Role of Idiolect in the Perception of Accented Speech |
| Apr 06, 2011 | Michelle Rifi | University of California, Riverside | The Role of FM Sweep Modulations in the Auditory Attentional Blink |
| Apr 13, 2011 | Justin Estep | University of California, Riverside | The role of working memory in category learning |
| Apr 20, 2011 | James Kaufman | California State University, San Bernadino | From beginner to Beethoven: A continuum of creativity |
| Apr 27, 2011 | Denton Deloss | University of California, Riverside | Aging and Perceptual Learning in an Orientation Discrimination Task |
| May 04, 2011 | Cognitive Faculty Meeting | ||
| May 11, 2011 | James Dias | University of California, Riverside | Visual influences on interactive speech alignment |
| May 18, 2011 | Theresa Cook | University of California, Riverside | The Effects of Scene Detail and Environmental Contexts on the Horizontal-Vertical Illusion |
| May 25, 2011 | Molly Moreland | University of California, Riverside | Effects of Local Foil Similarity on Eyewitness Identification Decisions |
| Jun 01, 2011 | Russell Pierce | University of California, Riverside | Some preliminary data and further plans for the investigation of visual spatial attention in three dimensions |
Fall 2011
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Sep 28, 2011 | Christine Chiarello | University of California, Riverside | Role of Insular Cortex in Language Lateralization |
| Oct 05, 2011 | Emily Grossman | University of California, Irvine | Contemporary issues in biological motion perception |
| Oct 12, 2011 | Ayse Saygin | University of California, San Diego | Body movements: from dots to robots |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Arthur Shapiro | American University | Are brightness illusions really illusory? |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Alan Castel | University of California, Los Angeles | Memory Efficiency and Value-Directed Remembering Across the Lifespan |
| Nov 02, 2011 | Psychonomics | ||
| Nov 09, 2011 | Charlie Chubb | University of California, Irvine | Untangling the Dimensions of Perceptual Sensitivity |
| Nov 16, 2011 | Sarah Creel | University of California, San Diego | Solving the 'buzzle': Similarity, familiarity, and social relevance in preschoolers' spoken language knowledge |
| Nov 23, 2011 | HOLIDAY | ||
| Nov 30, 2011 | Cancelled |
Winter 2012
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Jan 11, 2012 | No Cog Lunch | ||
| Jan 18, 2012 | Virginie Leclercq | UC Riverside | Fast Task-Irrelevant Learning |
| Jan 25, 2012 | Jude Mitchell | The Salk Institute | Signal improvements due to reductions in correlated variability in neuronal responses in spatial attention and perceptual learning. |
| Feb 01, 2012 | CANCELLED | ||
| Feb 08, 2012 | John Wixted | University of California, San Deigo | Recognition Memory and the Medial Temporal Lobe |
| Feb 15, 2012 | Eric Schwitzgebel | UC Riverside | The Relationship Between Moral Cognition and Moral Behavior: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors |
| Feb 22, 2012 | John Serences | University of California, San Diego | Evaluating optimal models of information processing in visual cortex |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Arielle Borovsky | University of California, San Diego | Learning to use and understand words from context: what event-related brain potentials can tell us |
| Mar 07, 2012 | Denton Deloss | University of California, Riverside | Multimodal Integration and Aging |
| Mar 09, 2012 | Adriane E. Seiffert | Vanderbilt University | Special Talk: How Do We Know Where Things Go |
| Mar 14, 2012 | Brett Bays | University of California, Riverside | The Interaction of Attention and Visual Statistical Learning |
Spring 2012
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Apr 04, 2012 | UC Riverside | CANCELLED | |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Russell Pierce | UC Riverside | Should the consideration of a simple observer model influence our interpretation of visual spatial attention measurement methods? |
| Apr 18, 2012 | Lizzie McDevitt | UC Riverside | To nap or not to nap: The effect of nap frequency on daytime sleep architecture |
| Apr 25, 2012 | Mara Mather | University of Southern California | Arousal-biased competition in perception and memory |
| May 02, 2012 | James Dias | UC Riverside | Visual influences on selective adaptation in speech perception |
| May 09, 2012 | No Cog Lunch (VSS) | ||
| May 16, 2012 | Molly Moreland | UC Riverside | Shifting weights, not criteria: An alternative mechanism for modeling choice |
| May 30, 2012 | Theresa Cook | UC Riverside | Emotional vs. Linguistic Salience in Audiovisual Integration |
| Jun 06, 2012 | David Vazquez | UC Riverside | Sustained Attention and Dispositional Motivation: Top-down Influences on Cognitive Performance |
Fall 2012
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Oct 03, 2012 | Karen Dobkins | UCSD Psychology / Developmental | Intermingling of Sensory Representations over the Course of Development |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Nicola Cellini | University of Padua / Psychology | The Mechanisms of Space-Time Association: Comparing Motor and Perceptual Contributions in Time Estimation |
| Oct 17, 2012 | Larry Rosenblum | UCR Psychology | Hear Me Now, See Ya Later: Crossmodal Transfer of Speech and Speaker Learning |
| Oct 24, 2012 | Michael Gorman | UCSD Psychology / Neuroscience | Making circadian clocks more flexible with novel uses of light and manipulation of the pacemaker waveform |
| Oct 31, 2012 | Nanthia Suthana | UCLA Psychology / Neuroscience | Deep Brain Stimulation, Memory Enhancement, and Hippocampal Theta-Gamma Coupling |
| Nov 07, 2012 | Arash Afraz | MIT Neuroscience | Spatial limits of visual object recognition; a new conceptual framework for translation invariance. |
| Nov 14, 2012 | Mary Gauvain | USC Psychology | Children’s Questions in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Four-Culture Study |
| Nov 28, 2012 | Rosie Cowell | UCSD Psychology / Neuroscience / Computational Modeling | Paradoxical False Recognition Memory: New objects look old in a model of amnesia |
| Dec 05, 2012 | Denise Cai | UCLA Neuroscience | The Effects of Cellular Co-allocation in Hippocampus of Multiple Spatial Memories |
| Dec 06, 2012 | Esther Guillaume | UCR Psychology Department | The international situations project: Examining data from 10 cultures |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Iris Blandon-Gitlin | Cal State Fullerton | The Cognition of Lying: Implications for Detecting Deception |
Winter 2013
| Date | Name | From | Title |
| Jan 09, 2013 | Adam Aron | UCSD Psychology | Brain circuits for controlling response tendencies |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Irving Biederman | USC Psychology | The Neural Basis of Perceptual Cognitive and Pleasure |
| Jan 23, 2013 | Cory Miller | UCSD Psychology / Neuroscience | |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Kate Sweeny | UCR | The Waiting is the Hardest Part: Mapping the Process of Managing Uncertainty |
| Feb 06, 2013 | Iris Blandon-Gitlin | Cal State Fullerton | The Cognition of Lying: Implications for Detecting Deception |
| Feb 11, 2013 | Aaron Seitz | UCR Psychology | |
| Feb 20, 2013 | Cathy Reed | ||
| Feb 27, 2013 | Rachel Flynn | UCR Psychology |