Cognitive Tea Schedule, Department of Psychology, Rice University, Fall 2005

Cognitive Tea Schedule
Department of Psychology
Rice University
Fall 2006

Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:15, Sewall Hall 307, Rice University

Note: For Rice Psychology Graduate Students, Cognitive Tea is also known as Psychology 529, Cognitive Research Seminar

Talks are generally on Wednesdays from noon - 1 p.m. in Sewall Hall 307 unless otherwise noted (this may change).
For a listing of computer and a/v technology available in this room, click here

Fall 2006 speakers

Aug 30       Fall Calendar planning
                   Steve Jewell, Rice
                   "The roar of the crowd: A flip side to reason"

Sep 6: Jennifer Boyer, Rice
"The Effects of Unattended Congruency on Attended Targets"

Sep. 13 Stephanie Babb, Neurobiology and Anatomy, UT Health Sciences Center, Houston
"Episodic-like memory in the rat"

Sep. 20 Keith Kline, Neurobiology and Anatomy, UT Health Sciences Center, Houston
"Evidence for continuous vs. discrete processing in the visual motion system"

Sep. 27 David Eagleman, Neurobiology and Anatomy, UT Health Sciences Center, Houston
"Time and the Brain," and "Synesthesia"

Oct. 4 Randi Martin, Rice
"The role of competition in word selection"

Oct. 11 Jason Crowther, "Activation vs. Inhibition Accounts of Semantic Blocking Effects in Production and Comprehension"

Oct. 18 (canceled)

Note: Oct 20 - 22: Armadillo, in Lubbock, TX

Oct. 25    Phil Burton, Rice postdoctoral fellow
                "Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus and Verb Generation:
                   An fMRI Study of Selection Demands vs. Association Strength"

Nov. 1 Melanie Lunsford Hamel, Rice
"Understanding contour integration using response classification and natural image statistics"

and Mary Portillo, Rice
"Search asymmetries with emergent features"

Nov. 8 Tony Wright, Neurobiology and Anatomy, UT Health Sciences Center, Houston
"The Generalization Hypothesis of abstract-concept learning"

and Tony Ro, Rice
" Feeling sights and sounds"

Nov 15: No Cog Tea - see other major events taking place that week, below

     Nov. 15   Configural Processing Consortium 2006 meeting
     Nov. 16: Brain, Behavior, and Cognition Symposia at Rice
     Nov 16:  OPAM, WICS
     Nov 16 - 19: Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Houston

Nov. 22 Canceled

Nov. 29 Chen Sun, Rice
"A developmental study of Motion/Position Illusion"

and Denise Chen, Rice
"Emotion and Olfactory Perception."

Dec. 6 Wen Zhou
"Brain responses to chemosignals"

and Randi Martin, Rice
"Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation? A Study Sponsored by NSF Women in Cognitive Science Award"

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Spring 2006

Jan 11    Organizational meeting, announcements
                 Addie Johnson, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
                  "Colors Count in Synesthesia"

Jan 18 Mike Byrne, Psychology, Rice
"Execution of Isomorphic Routine Procedures: Errors and Models"

Jan 25 Tony Wright, Neurobiology and Anatomy, UT Health Sciences Center, Houston
"The Oddity Preference Effect in Matching and Oddity Tasks"

Feb 1 - No Cog Tea today -

Feb 8 Magdalena Grohman, Rice
"In search of optimal switching: Another perspective on task switching processes"

& Linda Mortensen, Rice
"Processing of extrafoveal objects: Effects of ageing and foveal load"

Feb 15 Kelly Biegler, Rice
"Competition in word retrieval: Common mechanisms in language and memory tasks?"

Feb 22 Phil Chung, Rice
"Same Task, New Look"

& Daniel Glaser, Rice
"Foraging words"

Mar 1 Canceled: Camille Peres, Rice / UH Clear Lake
~~"Software Use in the Workplace: A Study of Efficiency"~~

Mar 8: Canceled: Katherine Crosswhite, Linguistics, Rice University
~~"Loudness in Phonology: An Auditory Approach to Phonological Prominence"~~

Mar 15 (Midterm recess - no meeting)

Mar 22 Ruth Johnson, Rice
"Visual Influences on Tactile Perception of Different Body Sites"
(Note: Jason Crowther is unavailable and will be rescheduled to another date)

Mar 29: Sarah Everett, Rice
"Evaluating the Usability of Paper Ballots and Lever Machines" and

Kristen Greene, Rice
"Trading Old Usability Concerns for New Ones: Implications of the Help America Vote Act."

Apr 5:   Minmin Yang, Rice
               "e-Grammar: An Assessment-based Learning Environment for English Grammar"

               & Jason Crowther, Rice
               "Deficits in inhibition and single word processing"

Apr 12 Madeline Campbell, Rice
"Error Management Training &Predictors of Performance"

& Heather Lugar, Rice
"The Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Emotion, and Cognition"

Apr 19 Gunes Avci, Rice
"Foraging Words II : Episodic and Semantic Memory"

& Chen Sun, Rice
"A Developmental Study of Motion/Position Illusion"

Apr 26 Shu Wang, Rice
"Can an unidentified word prime?"

An Hong, Rice
"Priming, Decay, and Memory"

and Loan Vuong, Rice
"Semantic Priming in a Semantic STM patient"

Fall 2005

Aug 24 Organizational meeting – bring your calendars

Aug 31 Multiple presenters: Biegler, Wallace, Watkins, Burgund

Sept 7 Chess Stetson, Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT-Houston
"Time Perception: Why are motor judgments special?"

Sept 14            Delia Kothmann, Rice
                          "Exploring Executive Functions in Children with Attention:
                          Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Event Related Potentials"

Sept 21 Michael Beauchamp, Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT-Houston
"See me, hear me, touch me: multisensory integration in lateral occipital-temporal cortex"

Sept 28 Phil Burton, Rice
"Mechanisms of Unconscious Priming: Spreading Semantic Activation and Response Competition"

Oct 5 Tony Ro, Rice
"Perceptual consequences of reorganization after a ventrolateral thalamic lesion"

Oct 12 Randi Martin (25)
"Left inferior frontal involvement in semantic retention during phrase comprehension and production: Evidence from fMRI"

Oct 19 Richard Meisch, UT - Houston
"Drug self-administration: Choice and persistence as a function of drug dose."

Oct 26             Melanie Lunsford, Rice, "Perceived direction of gaze from photographs"
                          and
                        Mary Portillo, Rice, "Evaluating grouping via emergent features: A systematic approach"

Nov 2              Anikó Sándor, Rice, "Effect of pitch range on estimation of short durations"
                          and
                       Jim Pomerantz, Rice, "Varieties of Emergent Features in Visual Perceptual Organization"

Nov 9              Wen Zhou, Rice, "Brain responses to olfactory stimuli"
                          &
                        Tony Ro, Rice, "Attention to social-biological stimuli"

Nov 16 Mike Byrne, Rice (canceled because of illness)
"Mitigating routine procedural errors through layout change"

Nov 23            Frank Tamborello, Rice, "Visual Displays: The Continuing Investigations of the Highlighting Paradox"
                           &
                        Chris Fick, Rice, "Inattentional Blindness: Observing Unexpected Objects in a Dynamic Visual Task"

Nov 30 Laura Martin, Rice
"Investigations of Impulsivity in Reward Processing"

Spring 2005

Jan 12 Organizational meeting; please bring your calendars

Jan 19 Peter Walker, SUNY-Albany Psychology
"Interference at a distance: A salient color distractor interferes with non-singleton search"

Jan 21 Special Psychology Department Colloquium

                3:30 PM Rice University Campus, Sewall Hall 301
                Lee Osterhout, University of Washington, Department of Psychology
                "ERPs as tools for investigating language processing and language learning"

Our species has a truly remarkable facility for using language, but remarkably little facility for intuitively understanding how we do it. To figure that out, we need sophisticated methods of investigation. One such method involves recording the brain's electrical activity from the scalp while people read or listen to language. We have used this method to investigate on-line language comprehension, second-language learning, and even linguistically encoded social stereotypes. Our results support some conventional beliefs (for example, that syntax and semantics are neurobiologically distinct) but not others (for example, the belief that syntax always drives sentence processing, or that adult second-language learning is uniformly slow). I will respectfully propose some revisions to conventional views of how we process a first language and learn a second one.

Jan 26 No Cog Tea this week!

Jan 28 Special Cognitive Colloquium

Jared Novick, U. of Pennsylvania
"Cognitive control and parsing: The role of LIFG in sentence processing"
Noon, Friday, Jan 28, 2005, Sewall 250

Feb 2 Jiajie Zhang, Ph.D., School of Health Information Sciences, UT
"Representational Analysis in Human-Computer Interaction"

Feb 9 Dan Felleman, UT Medical School
"Functional Organization of Hue and Luminance Processing in V2"

Feb 16 CANCELED - TO BE RESCHEDULED

Feb 23 Eric Margolis, Professor of Philosophy, Rice
"Thoughts about artifacts: Is it the design stance?"

Feb 25    Special Cognitive Science talk Friday Feb 25, 4:30-6:00 PM, HUM 117
                       followed by a wine-and-cheese reception
                 Michael Tye: “Change Blindness and the Refrigerator Light Illusion”
                 Reading: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/tye/

Mar 2 Melanie Lunsford
"A first step towards using the classification image technique to study contour integration

& Jason Crowther
"Naming Words in Context: A Single Underlying Source of Deficits?"

Mar 9 Rice Spring Break - no Cog Tea

Mar 16 Cris Hamilton, Rice
"ERP and fMRI data from a semantic short-term memory paradigm"

Mar 23 Phil Chung, Rice
"Wireless Headsets: Taking Psychology to the Field"

Mar 30   Jennifer Boyer, Rice
                "Unconscious orientation and color processing during TMS-induced blindsight"

                Frank Tamborello, Rice
               "Information Search: The Intersection of Visual and Semantic Space"

Apr 6     Kristen Greene, Rice
               "Visual distractors: Influences on saccadic and manual reaction times"

               Wen Zhou, Rice
               "Can the Brain Smell Emotions?"

Daniel Glaser, Rice
Olfactory communication of emotion in humans

Apr 13 Heather Lugar, Rice
"Speed and anxiety during the verb generation task: Can they be dissociated?"

Steve Jewell, Rice
"Growing cognition from the bottom up: Wisdom at the edge of chaos"

Apr 20 Madeline Campbell, Rice
"Examining Knowledge Structure Development".

+ Jim Dannemiller, Rice
"Perceptual grouping and suppression in human infants"

Apr 27    Minmin Yang, Rice
               "Randomness perception: Bias, Learning and Transfer"

            + Rachel Hull, Rice
               "When 'arose' is not 'a rose': Inhibitory control in ambiguity resolution"

Fall 2004

Aug 25 Organization meeting; please bring your calendars

Sept 1     Special Cognitive Tea:
               Rick Wilson, Prof. of Political Science, Rice University
              "Never Judge a Book by its Cover: Beauty and Expectations in a Trust Game"
               Location: McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall, Rice Campus

Sept 8 Randi Martin, Rice
"Working memory and language production"

Sept 15   Mike Byrne, Rice
               "A Closed-Loop, ACT-R Approach to Modeling Approach and Landing With
                     and Without Synthetic Vision System (SVS) Technology

+ Michael Fleetwood, and Chris Fick, Rice
"Input Rates for a One-Handed Input Device (OHAI) for Chinese Text Entry"

Sept 22 Dave Schneider, Rice
"Graded social categories: Lessons from African American skin color"

Sept 29 Darcy Burgund, Rice
"The Development of Letter-Specific Processing: An Effect of Age or Reading Ability?"

Oct 6 Steve Smith, Professor, Texas A&M University
"Forgetting (and recovering) the unforgettable"

Oct 13    Leigh Leasure, University of Houston
              "Forced vs. voluntary exercise: Effects on learning and neurogenesis"
              (Note: The rest of Rice follows a Monday schedule on this Wednesday)

Oct 15     Special Cognitive Tea 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.:
               Randy Batsell, Assoc. Prof., Jones School of Management, Rice University
               Topic: Tversky's Elimination by Aspects model of decision making
               Location: Sewall 309

Oct 20 Anikó Sándor, Rice
"Duration Judgment of Auditory and Visual Stimuli: Is More Change Perceived as Longer?"

Phil Burton, Rice
"Neural Substrates of Semantic Working Memory: Imaging Speech Planning with fMRI

Oct 27    Ruth Wallace, Rice
             "Visual influences on tactile perception:
                 Determining what parameters induce a sustained visual enhancement of touch"

Nov 3 Arturo Hernandez, Associate Professor, University of Houston

"The effects of age of L2 acquisition on grammatical and semantic processing"

Nov 10 Anne Sereno, Associate Professor, UT School of Medicine
"Nicotine and Voluntary Orienting"

and Laura Martin, Rice
"Rewards, Errors, and Impulsivity"

Nov 17 James Pomerantz, Rice (with Mary Portillo)
"False Pop Out"

                + Sarah Everett, Rice
                "Changes in Visual Search Strategies Due to Varying Icon Spacing:
                         Support from an Eye-Tracking Study"

Nov 24     Kelly Biegler, Rice
                  "A Methodological Comparison of Overt and Covert Action and Object
                     Naming in an ERP Paradigm"

and Yan Cheng, Rice (30 minutes)

Dec 1 Jim Dannemiller, Rice
"Testing Differential Deficit in the Development of Visual Orienting"

+ Denise Chen, Rice
"Human olfactory communication"

Spring 2004

Jan 14 David Eagleman, UT Medical School
"Prediction, postdiction, and the perception of time"

Jan 21 Randi Martin, Rice
"The Neuropsychology of Sentence Comprehension: Where do we stand?"

Jan 28    Andrew Waters
             Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science, MD Anderson Cancer Center
              "Cognitive Processes in Tobacco Addiction"

Feb 4 Laura Martin, Rice, "Impulsivity and Rewards"
Susan Wood, Rice, "ERP's of Selective Attention in Schizophrenia"

Feb 11 Rachel Hull, "The factors of executive function in short-term memory: Evidence from senior adults"

Feb 18    Psychology Department Colloquium
              Note location: Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, Rice University
              Craig Anderson, Iowa State University
              "Violent Video Games: Research and Public Policy"

Feb 25    Morris Moscovitch, University of Toronto at Mississagua and the Rotman Research Institute
               Note location: Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, Rice University
              "Remote memory in humans (and rats): Consolidation and hippocampal-neocortical interaction"

Mar 3 (Midterm recess - no Cog Tea scheduled)

Mar 10 Camille Peres (25 min), "Dimensions of sound in auditory displays: The effects of redundant dimensions"
Frank Tamborello (15), "Information Search: The Intersection of Visual and Semantic Domains"

Mar 17 Erik Chang, Rice. "Saccadic suppression of displacement and distortions in spatial perception"

Mar 24 Mary Portillo, Rice (25) "Words, letters, objects and topology: evaluating several phenomena with the Odd-Quadrant task"
and Delia Kothman (25), "Exploring the Separability of Executive Functions with ERPs"

Mar 31 Madeline Campbell (25), "Taming Orienting Tasks"
and Sarah Peterson (25), "Unintended Effects: Varying Icon Spacing Changes Users' Visual Search Strategy"

Apr 7 Michael Fleetwood, "An ACT-R Model of Airplane Pilot Performance: The Influence of Synthetic Vision Systems
Technology on the Allocation of Visual Attention."

Apr 14   Jennifer Boyer (15),"Attentional Influences on Metacontrast Masking"
               Minmin Yang (15), "Perception of Randomness: Bias, Learning and Transfer"
               and Jason Crowther (15), "Context and rate effects in picture naming:
                  A comparison between aphasics and normals"

Apr 16 FRIDAY 3:30 - 4:40 in Sewall 307
Denise Chen (25), "The Effect of Emotional Chemosignals on Task Performance"
and Ruth Wallace (25) "A simultaneous non-informative visual stimulus influences tactile perception"

Apr 21 Chris Fick, Rice University
"Visual Attention: The Task Matters"

Apr 23 FRIDAY 3:30 - 4:40 in Sewall 307 Cris Hamilton (50)
"Interference and Inhibition - Patient Studies and ERP Data"

Apr 26 SPECIAL EDITION OF COG TEA, 11:45 - 12:45 p.m., Sewall 250
Heather Bortfeld, Psychology Dept., Texas A & M
"Tracking Activity in the Infant Brain"

May 10 SPECIAL EDITION OF COG TEA, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Sewall 250 (or possibly 303)
Anna Franklin PhD, from the University of Surrey
"Categorical Perception in infancy and early childhood: What this can tell us about the origin and nature of Categorical Perception."

Fall 2003

Aug. 27 Organizational meeting (bring calendars, preferred speaking dates)

Sept. 3 Prof. Bruno Breitmeyer, Psychology, University of Houston
Masking reveals differences between the unconscious and conscious processing of surface attributes and contours of visual stimuli

Sep. 10 Prof. Mike Byrne, Rice
Systematic Errors in the Execution of Isomorphic Routine Procedures

Sep. 17    Dean F. Salisbury, PhD
                   Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
               Associate Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, McLean Hospital
               Dominant and subordinate homograph meaning selection in schizophrenia

Sep. 24   Prof. Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D.
               Department of Neurobiology, UT Medical School
               Neural coding of stimulus features in visual cortex and the scanning of natural scenes

Oct. 1 University of Houston Conference: Bringing Science to Life

Oct. 8 Prof. Tony Ro, Rice
Neural Mechanisms for Conscious and Unconscious Vision

Oct. 15   Prof. Darcy Burgund, Rice
                  fMRI Studies of Task-Level Control in Adults and Children
               (Note: Darcy will give the same talk the next day at UT)

Oct. 22 CANCELED - RESCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 3

Oct. 29   Aniko Sandor, Rice
              "Perceptual Interaction of Duration with Pitch and Rate of Change in Pitch Evidence for Integral Sound Dimensions"

              Prof. Jim Pomerantz, Rice
              "The Genesis of Perceptual Organization: Basic Emergent Features in Vision"

Nov. 5    Phillip Chung
              "An Extended Hierarchical Task Analysis for Error Prediction in Medical Devices"

              YanLiu Huang, Rice
              "Measuring Priming in Indirect Memory Tests"

               Note: Psychonomics runs Nov 6 - 9, 2003 in Vancouver

Nov. 12 OPEN
Note: Society for Neuroscience runs Nov 8 - 12, 2003 in New Orleans

Nov. 19 Kelly Biegler, Rice
"The Role of Short-term Memory in Speech Production"

Yan Cheng, Rice
"Selection vs. Association Strength: Role of Left inferior Prefrontal Cortex in Retrieval of Task-relevant Information"

Nov 26 Geoff Potts, Rice
"Endogenous attention as an interaction between neural systems of motivation and perception"

Dec 3 Fero Kuminiak, Rice
"It was the banker that the barber praised: Behavioral measures of cognitive load in processing cleft sentences."

              Prof. Darcy Burgund, Rice
              Title: "Task and trial-related signals II: Recap and extension"
              Note: this will be a different talk from the one Darcy gave at UT earlier this fall.

Spring, 2003 Schedule

Jan. 15 12:30 - 1:30 pm James Booth, Northwestern University. Location: Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library

Jan. 22 3:30 - 4:30 pm Alessandra Passarotti. Location: Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library

Jan. 27 4:00 - 5:00 pm Natasha Kirkham 4:00 p.m., Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
(special Monday edition of Cog Tea)

Jan. 29 12:00 - 1:00 pm Darcy Burgund, Washington University (St. Louis). Location: Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Neuroimage paper #1, Neuroimage paper #2

Feb. 5 Organizational meeting

Feb. 12 Mary Portillo, Rice University
"Searching for Emergent Features with the Odd Quadrant Task"

Feb. 19 Raymond “Chip” Knee, Psychology, University of Houston
Implicit Theories of Relationships: Orientations Toward Evaluation and Cultivation

Feb. 26 Martin Monti, Rice University
"'Wanna Bet?': An Experimental Perspective on Rationality, Risk Aversion and Gambling Behavior"

Mar. 5 Claudia Uller, U. of Louisiana Lafayette Institute of Cognitive Science

Mar. 12 (Rice midterm recess - no Cog Tea)

Mar. 19 Randi Martin, Rice University

Mar. 26 Michael Fleetwood, Rice University
Laura Martin, Rice University

Apr. 2 Sarah Peterson, Rice University, "Icon search The effect of spacing on response time"
Chris Fick, Rice University, "Capture Of Visual Attention By Abrupt Onsets A Model Of Contingent Orienting"

Apr. 9 Cris Hamilton, Rice University, "Semantic and Phonological Influences on Proactive Interference"

Apr. 16 Phil Burton, Rice University, "Neuroimaging of language production using overt speech in fMRI"

Apr. 23 Zhihua Tang, Rice University, "Learner Control in an Interactive Learning Environment"

Fall, 2002 Schedule

Fall, 2002

Aug. 28 Organizational Meeting

Sept. 4 Margaret Lehman Blake, Ph.D., Communication Disorders, University of Houston
"Discourse comprehension after right hemisphere brain damage".

Sept. 11 Steven Jewell, Rice, "The Role of Memory in Perceptual Organization"

Sept. 18 Madeline Campbell and Mike Watkins, Rice University
"Two studies in memory selectivity"

Sept. 25 S. Camille Peres, Rice, "Matching Visual Box Plots to Auditory Box Plots: It's Not as Easy as It Sounds"
Aniko Sandor, Rice, "Representing numerical values with sounds"

Oct. 2       Delia Kothmann, Rice, "Semantic and Phonological Processing in an Overt Picturing
                         Naming Task: Using ERPs to Study Speech Production"
                 Laura Martin, Rice, ""P2a: An index of reward processing"

Oct. 9 Susan Wood, Rice, "Selective Attention in Schizophrenia"
Phillip Chung, Rice, "Error Management: Two Attempts on a Common Procedural Error"

Oct. 16 Denise Chen, Rice. "Olfactory communication of emotion in heterosexual couples."

Oct. 23 Fero Kuminiak, Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, Rice
"Sex and Slovak Gender agreement in language production"

Note: Oct. 25 and 26 is the annual meeting of Armadillo.

Oct. 30 YanLiu Huang, Rice, "Generation Effect Revisited"
Yan Cheng, Rice, "Selection vs. association strength in the verb-generation task"

Nov. 6 Denise Wu, Rice, "Separate Short-term Memory Buffers for Input and Output Phonology"

Nov. 13 Erik Chang, Rice, "The role of the posterior parietal cortex in visual stability"

Nov. 20   Psychonomic Society practice talks:
                Tony Wright, University of Texas - Houston Medical School
                    "Same/Different Abstract Concept Learning by Monkeys and Pigeons"
                Jim Pomerantz, Rice University
                    "Several Strange Effects Arising from Perceptual Grouping in Vision"

Nov. 27 Kelly Biegler, Rice, "An investigation of the role of semantic short term memory in speech production"
Ruth Wallace, Rice, "Visual influences on tactile perception"

Dec. 4 Anne Sereno, UT Medical School
"Attention, Eye Movements, and Short Term Memory"

Spring, 2002 Schedule

Jan. 11 Dr. Lin Chen, Beijing Laboratory of Cognitive Science, University of Science and Technology of China

"Functional MRI Reveals Form-dependent Involvement of the Visual Form Pathway in Long-range Apparent Motion in the Absence of Activation of Area MT"

Jan. 16 1st year graduate students: YanLiu Huang, Steve Jewell, Delia Kothmann

Jan. 23 1st year graduate students: Kelly Biegler, Yan Cheng

Jan. 30 1st year graduate students: Madeline Campbell, Phillip Chung

Feb. 6 Dr. James J. Knierim, UT-Houston Medical School
"How do you build a cognitive map? Multi-site recordings from the hippocampus"

Feb. 13 Tony Ro, Rice, "Attention and oculomotor control in the human frontal eye fields"

Feb. 22 Mike Byrne, Rice University, "Modeling Errors in Taxiing of Commercial Aircraft"
Note time and place: This talk is on Friday, Feb. 22, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. in Sewall Hall 207B

Feb. 27

Mar. 6 (No Cog Tea - Rice midterm recess)

Mar. 13 Michael Fleetwood, "Computational Modeling of Icon Search"

Mar. 20 Nohsook Park: "Reading vs. Writing: Evidence for the dissociation of input and output orthographic lexicons"

Mar. 27 Chris Fick, "Attentional Capture by Visual Onsets and the Mediating Effects of Attentional Set"

Apr. 3 Doug Baxter, UT-Houston Medical School
"Cellular Analysis of Associative Learning in the Feeding Behavior of Aplysia"

Apr. 10 Cris Hamilton, "Three Inhibition Tasks and a Semantic STM Deficit"

Apr. 17 Deborah A. Pearson, Ph.D., Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
"Functional neuroimaging in children and adults: Explorations of inhibition and medication response"

Apr. 24 Reeni George, post-doctoral fellow, Rice University
"Frontal lobe deficits in Alcoholism"

May 1 Prof. Jiajie Zhang, School of Health Information Sciences, UT-Houston
"Toward A Cognitive Taxonomy of Human Errors in Medicine"

One critical step in addressing and resolving the problems associated with human errors is the development of a cognitive taxonomy of such errors. In the case of errors, such a taxonomy may be developed (1) to categorize all types of errors along cognitive dimensions, (2) to associate each type of error with a specific underlying cognitive mechanism, (3) to explain why, and even predict when and where, a specific error will occur, and (4) to generate intervention strategies for each type of error. I will present a preliminary action-based cognitive taxonomy of errors that largely satisfies these four criteria in the domain of medicine. I will discuss initial steps for applying this taxonomy to develop an online medical error reporting system that not only categorizes errors but also identifies problems and generates solutions.

Fall, 2001 Schedule

Aug. 29 Organizational Meeting - bring your calendars.

Sept. 5 Jim Pomerantz, "Emergent Features and Hierarchies of Grouping in Vision"

Sept. 12 No meeting

Sept. 19 Harvey Levin, Baylor College of Medicine

Sept. 26 Tony Ro, "The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Distractor Interference"

Oct. 3 Phil Burton, "Awareness, Spreading Semantic Activation, and Response Competition in Priming"

Oct. 10 Denise Wu, "The Dissociation of Input and Output Orthographic Lexicons"

Oct. 17 Emese Nagy, UT Houston, "Neurophysiology of self regulation: the impact of psychopathology and sex
differences on attention and emotion perception in the prefrontal cortex"

Oct. 24 Kate Loveland, UT Houston, ""Emotions, Development and the Brain in Autism"

Oct. 31 Zhihua Tang, "Discovery Learning with Computer Simulations"

Nov. 7 Randi Martin, "Semantic relatedness in noun phrase and sentence production"
Mike Byrne, "The interruptibility of simple retrievals from long-term memory"

Nov. 14 Chin-Lung Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University
"Noun phrase complexity vs. word retrieval fluency in sentence production"

Nov. 21        Margaret Sereno, University of Oregon and Visiting Scientist, Max Plank Institute
                     for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany
                     "The representation of 3-D shape in visual cortex: a monkey fMRI study"

Nov. 28 1st year graduate students: Aniko Sandor, Camille Peres

Dec. 5 1st year graduate students: Ruth Wallace, Laura Martin, Susan Wood