• March 11: Jonathan S. Feinstein
  
  Distinguished Lecture (Room 324)
  Creative Development in a Field
  
  
• March 25: Anthony S. Maida
  
  Methods for Modeling Single Neurons and Small Neural Networks
  
  
• April 1: Carmen Comeaux, Brooke Breaux, Shelli Feist
  
  Do You 'use'? A Prototype Analysis of Verb Meaning
  
  
• April 29: First Year Student Presentations
  
  Titles are here
  
  

Past Colloquia During Fall 2008

• October 15: Anthony S. Maida
  
  Using Dynamical Systems Approaches to Obtain Biologically Accurate Models of Neurons
  
  
• October 22: Subrata Dasgupta
  
  PHYSICS-ENVY AS A CREATIVE DRIVE (or 'Let's get Physical')
  
  
• November 5: Claude Čech and Kyle Albarado
  
  Some Fast Talking About Discourse (or is it A Discourse on Fast Talk?)
  
  
• November 19: Derek James
  Proposal Defense:
  A Recurrent Hierarchical Model of Unsupervised Sequence Learning and Processing
  
  
• November 26: Naresh Vempala
  Proposal Defense:
  2 pm instead of 3 pm:
  Modeling Melody Perception and Recognition
  
  
• December 3: Brooke O. Breaux
  Proposal Defense:
  
  On grounding metaphors in space: An investigation into the metaphorical extensions of the spatial prepositions in and on
  
  

Past Colloquia During Spring 2008

• March 5: Michele I. Feist
  
  Inside In and On
  
  
• March 12: Viorica Marian
  
  Bilingual Language Processing: Eye-Tracking Evidence for Parallel Activation
  
  
• April 16: Subrata Dasgupta
  
  About Mentality: Prolegomenon to a Study of the Indo-Western Mind
  
  
• April 23: Paula Cifuentes Férez
  
  Motion in English and in Spanish
  
  
• May 7: First year ICS presentation: Christopher Pope
  
  Exploring the role of Complexity in Error-Driven Knowledge Restructuring
  
  
• May 21, 11am: Ph.D. Prospectus Defense: Laurie Robinette
  
  Re-Viewing Space: Factors Motivating Use of an Object-Centered Frame of Reference
  
  

Past Colloquia During Fall 2007

• October 10: Mike Kalish
  
  Some thoughts on the stability of linguistic universals: a naive beginning
  
  
• October 24: Edward Golob
  
  Cortical Processing of Speech and Sound Location Information in Humans
  
  
• October 31: Jonathan Goodwin
  
  Narrative, Fictionalism, and Optimality
  
  
• November 7: ICS Faculty
  
  Cognitive Science Open House poster
  
  
• November 14: Claiborne Rice
  
  Narrative Motion in Lyric
  
  
• November 16: Charles Barousse
  
  Memory for Musical Tone Intervals
  
  

Past Colloquia During Spring 2007

• January 31: Jon Trigg
  
  The Epistemic Role of Perceptual Experience
  
  
• February 14: Roxanne Benoit
  
  Audience-designed address, listener models, and entrainment in conversation
  
  
• Friday, March 2 at 11 am: Catherine Saunders
  
  Social and Cognitive Aspects of the Identification of Child and Adult Eyewitnesses
  
  
• March 7: Istvan Berkeley
  
  CajunBot: A Case Study of an Embodied System
  
  
• April 19 : Mark Turner
  
  Conceptual Evolution
  Thursday, 3pm , 324 Rougeou Hall
  
  
• 10am, May 2: Jeffery Darensbourg
  
  On the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Dissertation Defense)
  
  
• 1:30pm, May 2: Catherine Saunders
  
  Cognitive and Social Aspects of the Identification of Child and Adult Eyewitnesses (Dissertation Defense)
  
  
• 3pm, May 2: Arelen Billock
  
  Do Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) Use Local or Global Cues to Navigate A Radial Arm Maze ?
  
  
• 3:15pm, May 2: Daniel Lewis
  
  Is the Liquid State Machine Model of a Cortical Minicolumn Compatible with a Tonotopic Map?
  
  

Past Colloquia During Fall 2006

• August 17: Jeffery Darensbourg
  
  The Place of Computationalism in Cognitive Science: A Philosophical Investigation
  
  
• September 27: Naresh Vempala
  
  A Computational Model of the Music of Stevie Ray Vaughan
  
  
• October 4: Subrata Dasgupta
  
  A Cognitive Lens ... Tempered by Culture, Society & History
  
  
• October 11: Carolina Cruz-Neira
  
  Virtual Reality, supercomputers, and your research or how to use technology to understand the world around us
  3:15 pm
  Room 324 Rougeou
  
  
• October 18: No speaker
  
  Title to be announced
  
  
• October 25: Christoph Borst and Timothy Roden
  
  Entertainment Computing at UL Lafayette
  and
  3D Interaction in Virtual Reality Systems
  
  
• November 1: No speaker
  
  Title to be announced
  
  
• November 8: Brad Love
  
  The Emergence of Multiple Learning Systems
  
  
• November 15: John C. Dunn
  
  Ordinal and Other Process Dissociation: Geometric Representation and Testability
  
  
• November 29: Jason Hicks
  
  The Influence of Contextual Association on Prospective Memory

Past Colloquia During Spring 2006

• February 22: Anthony S. Maida
  
  Hierarchical Concurrency and the Brain
  
  
• March 8: John Oller, Linda Badon, Stephen Oller
  
  Highlighting Key Milestones of Semiotic Development: Part 1: From Conception toward Linguistic Maturity
  
  
• March 15: John Oller, Linda Badon, Stephen Oller
  
  Highlighting Key Milestones of Semiotic Development: Part 2: Milestones and Disorders from Sociocognitive Maturity to Dissolution
  
  
• March 28: Rosie D'Arcy
  
  Do Spatial Contextual Cues Influence the Behavior of Children and Chimpanzees?
  
  
• April 10: Ahmed Moustafa
  
  A Simulation of Delayed-response Tasks in a Model of Prefrontal Cortex and the Basal Ganglia
  
  
• April 25: Carmen Comeaux
  
  The Literary Mind: A Cognitive Case Study of Flannery O'Connor
  
  
• May 3: First Year Students
  
  Cognitive Science First Year Student Projects

Past Colloquia During Fall 2005

• September 16: Dr. Norman N. Holland
  
  Tickled Rats and Human Laughter
  Rougeou Hall, Room 324
  
  
• September 30: Dr. Michelle Feist
  
  A Common Construal: Where Language and Memory Meet
  
  
• October 7: Dr. Istvan Berkeley
  
  Machine Mentality
  
  
• October 21: Dr. Mike Kalish
  
  Iterated Learning with Bayesian Agents
  
  
• October 28: Dr. Jon Trigg
  
  Seeing and Believing
  
  
• November 4: Dr. Ronald W. Ferguson
  
  The Whys and Whens of Symmetry Perception
  
  
• November 11: Mr. Derek James
  
  Evolving Artificial Neural Networks
  
  
• November 18: Dr. Mark Honegger
  
  Lexical Categories are Sign-Based Primitives
  
  

Past Colloquia During Spring 2005

• February 3: Dr. Dedre Gentner
  
  Why We're so Smart
  
  
• February 4: Dr. Kenneth D. Forbus
  
  Exploring Common Sense Reasoning with Companion Cognitive Systems
  
  
• February 11: Ahmed Moustafa
  
  Systems-level Models of Working Memory: The Role of Reward-based Learning
  
  
• February 18: Dr. Subrata Dasgupta
  
  The Sanity of True Genius
  
  
• February 25: Dr. Carrie Figdor
  
  Troubles with Syntax
  
  
• March 4: Dr. Anthony Maida (cancelled)
  
  The Brain as a Cognitive Architecture
  
  
• March 11: Dr. Robert Jaeger and Dr. Mike Kalish
  
  Salamander Numerosity
  
  
• March 18: Dr. Jack Damico (cancelled)
  
  Negotiation of Unintelligibility in Aphasia
  
  
• April 8: Margery J. Doyle
  
  Nonmonotonic Extrapolation
  
  
• April 15: Dr. Jason Holt
  
  Neuroaesthetics and the Theory of Art
  
  
• April 22: Arlene Billock
  
  Cognitive and Endocrine Response to Fire and Predation by Colinus Virginianus (Northern Bobwhite Quail)
  
  

Past Colloquia During Fall 2004

• September 17: Dr. Nicole Müller
  
  Repetitiveness and Conversational Functioning in Dementia
  
  
• September 24: Dr. Anthony Maida
  
  Training Neural Networks with Synaptic Noise and Global Reward
  
  
• October 1: Dr. Matthew Isaak
  
  Target-Mask Response Compatibility and the Attentional Blink
  
  
• October 8: Fall break
  
  No presentation
  
  
• October 15: Dr. Michele Feist
  
  Talking About Space: A Cross-linguistic Perspective
  
  
• October 22: Dr. Martin Ball
  
  A Case of Progressive Speech Production Deterioration with Fronto-temporal Atrophy
  
  
• October 29: Ms. Rosie D'Arcy
  
  Response to Spatial Pattern Parameters by Children and Chimpanzees
  The Continued Importance of Morgan's Canon
  
  
• November 5: Dr. Istvan S. N. Berkeley
  
  Studying Synthetic Understanding
  
  
• November 12: Sally Donlon and Charles Barousse
  
  Latent Semantic Analysis of Student Concepts
  Neuroanatomical Correlates of Musical Expertise
  
  

Past Colloquia During Spring 2003

• February 6: Dr. Stuart Marcovitch
  
  A Hierarchical Competing Systems Approach to Cognitive Development
  
  
• February 20: Dr. Michele Feist
  
  Inside "in" and "on"
  
  
• February 27: Dr. Bob Jaeger
  
  Progress in Understanding Cognition and Cognitive Ecology of Red-backed Salamanders
  
  
• March 5: Mr. Ethan Prosen
  
  What am I Going to Do With You Now? Empirical Evidence of Salamander Decision Making
  
  
• March 12: Dr. Beth Losiewicz
  
  Words and Rules Revisited: Or what your psycholinguist never told you about word frequency
  
  
• March 19: Mr. Jeffery U. Darensbourg
  
  Other Species, Other Minds?: The Roots and Relevance of Turing
  
  
• March 26: Ms. Carmen Comeaux
  
  Just Looking: A Brief Look at the Linguistic Regularities and Gender Differences in the Language of Internet Personal Ads
  
  
• April 2: Dr. Gary P. Dohanich
  
  A Role for Estrogen in Learning and Memory
  
  
• April 23: Ms. Roxanne Benoit and Dr. Claude G. Cech
  
  Degrees of Discourse Privacy: Common Ground in Spoken and Computer-mediated Discourse
  
  
• April 30: Mr. Benjamin Rowland
  
  A Mathematical Model of Novelty Detection and Episodic Memory in the Mammalian Hippocampus
  
  

Past Colloquia During Fall 2003

• September 25:  Dr. Michael Ryan:
  
  Communication and Sexual Selection: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution in Tungara Frogs
  Jointly offered with the Department of Biology
  Time and location: 4:00pm Thursday, Billeaud Hall, Room 220
  
  
• October 10:  Dr. Anthony Maida:
  
  Feedforward Connectionist Networks: An Elementary Tutorial
  
  
• October 17:  Dr. Mike Kalish:
  
  Iterated Function Learning
  
  
• October 24:  Dr. Beth Losiewicz:
  
  Working Memory in a Visual-Spatial Language: Evidence from American Sign Language
  
  
• October 24:  Dr. Matthew Isaak:
  
  Target-Mask Response Compatibility and the Attentional Blink
  
  
• November 3:  Dr. Subrata Dasgupta:
  
  Pictures of an Artist's Mind: Understanding George Rodrigue
  Time and location: 7:00pm Monday, Fletcher Hall, Room 134
  
  
• November 7:  Mr. Steele Russell:
  
  Recurrent Connectionist Networks: An Elementary Tutorial
  
  
• November 14:  Mr. Ahmed Moustafa:
  
  Selecting Task-Relevant Information in a Working Memory Task: A Neurocomputational Analysis
  
  
• November 21:  Ms. Kate Saunders:
  
  The Weapon Focus Effect: The Role of Weapon Location
  
  

Past Colloquia During Spring 2003

• February 21:  Dr. Andrew Walenstein:
  
  Steps Toward Lightweight Cognitive Support Theories for Software Engineers
  
  
• March 7:  Dr. Glen Watson:
  
  Is it Possible to Treat Noise-induced Hearing Loss?
  
  
• March 14:  Dr. Don Dedrick:
  
  Fodor's Version of Chomsky's Argument Against the Evolution of Language by Natural Selection
  
  
• March 21:  Dr. Jeff Pelletier:
  
  Is Irriationality Possible?
  
  
• March 28:  Dr. John Bickle:
  
  Reducing Mind to Molecules: A Condition on Explanation Implicit in Current Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  
  
• April 4:  Dr. Claiborne Rice:
  
  The Role of the Somatic Marker in Readers' Responses to Lyric Poetry
  
  
• April 11:  Dr. Subrata Dasgupta:
  
  Deconstructing Creativity – I. Originality and Its Problems
  
  
• May 2: Dr. John Kruschke:
  
  Attention in Learning: Rash, Rational, Real
  
  
• May 9: Mr. Benjamin Rowland:
  
  A Mathematical Model of Novelty Detection and Episodic Memory Based on the Mammalian Hippocampus
  
  

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