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Unless otherwise noted, all talks will be given in Room 4263, Psychology Wing, Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University at 3:30 pm.  Talks will now be held approximately once per month.

Date Speaker Talk Title

September 23, 2011

Meet the Psychology and Neuroscience Faculty

Various Faculty Members give a short talk on their research.


 

September 30, 2011

Terry Anders Memorial Lecture

Susan Boehnke

Queen's University

The role of the superior colliculus in the visual orienting reflex  

October 6, 2011

4:30 pm, LSC 5260

Marcel Peloquin, PhD Candidate

Dalhousie University

How to get into graduate school

October 14, 2011

LSC 240

Honourary Degree Recipient

Tim Bliss

MRC National Institute for Medical Research

Following the Hebbian trail:  from synapse to cell assembly

 

October 21, 2011

Undergraduate Awards Day and Homecoming

Boyer Winters

University of Guelph

Independence. Interactivity, and Intermodality Within and Beyond the Medial Temporal Lobe "Memory System"

November 4, 2011

Darcy Kelley

Columbia University

Social cognition?  The neurobiology of vocal communication in male and female Xenopus.

 

November 25, 2011

Antonina Omisade

QEII Health Sciences Centre

Computerized Cognitve Testing in Clinical Practice:  Are We Ready?

 

December 9, 2011

Charles Collin

University of Ottawa

Who Are You? (Who? Who?):  Spatial Frequency and Face Recognition

 

 January 6, 2012

Richard Brown

Psychology Department 

Epigenetics:  The future of psychology and neuroscience

 

January 13, 2012

Jamie Kramer

Raboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre

Epigenetic Regulation of Learning and Memory

 

January 20, 2012

Iva Mathews

University of Alabama @ Birmingham

Epigenetic mechanisms in memory formation and maintenance.

 

January 27, 2012

Ian Weaver

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto

Maternal Care, glucocorticoids and epigenetic regulation:  Shaping adult phenotypes through early life environments

February 17, 2012

Mark Burke

Physiology and Biophysics, Howard University

Shaken not Stirred: Alcohol, Pregnancy and Development

 

 March 2, 2012

Erin Robertson

Psychology Department, Cape Breton University

Phonological and syntactic processing across typical and atypical populations of children. 

 

 March 16, 2012

Brain Awareness Week

 Dr. Ivar Mendez

Anatomy and Neurobiology

Neurosurgical technologies of the future:  brain repair for Parkinson's disease.

April 13, 2012

D.O.Hebb Memorial Lecture

Dr.Helen Neville

Brain Development Lab, University of Oregon

Experiential, Genetic and Epigenetic Effects on Human Neurocognitive Development