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Developmental Seminars

 

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Developmental Division
Winter 2012 Seminar Schedule

Thursdays, 12:30- 2:00
ABC Room (PAS 3026)



 
Date Presenter Topic
January 26, 2012 Reading Group
Articles on Publication Bias
February 2, 2012 Karly Neath Developmental course of attention orienting by gaze and its modulation by facial expressions
 February 9, 2012 Angela Nyhout Once upon a time at my house: Do children draw from familiar environments to represent stories?
February 16, 2012 LOVE conference

February 23, 2012 Reading week 

March 1, 2012
Julie Scott
The LUI over time: Tracking the patterns of growth in children's pragmatic language from 2 to 3 years
March 8, 2012
Mathieu Le Corre
How form affects meaning: The acquisition of number words in Mexican Sign Language
March 15, 2012
Shaylene Nancekivell Who owns what? -Preschoolers use of object history to explain ownership
March 22, 2912

10:30am
Job Talk
March 29, 2012

2pm
Daniel Ansari

University of Western Ontario (Guest Speaker)
The Numerate Brain: Development, Enculturation, and Individual Differences
April 5, 2012
Eiling Yee

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
(Guest Speaker)
How are concepts represented? Neural and behavioral evidence for distributed, sensorimotor-based representations
April 12, 2012 Amanda Pogue Which is worse...? A Look at Abstract Magnitude Systems and Moral Decision Making





Fall 2011 Seminar Schedule

 
Date Presenter Topic
September 22, 2011 Ori Friedman
Young children's reasoning about the ownership of artifacts and natural kinds
September 29, 2011 Meghan Dale
Number syntax and grouping objects by quantity
October 6, 2011 Amanda Pogue When is 'a lot' more than 'a few'?
October 20, 2011 MASc Students Project Proposals
October 28, 2011 (Friday)

1:30 - 3pm
PAS 1229
Richard Aslin

University of Rochester
(Guest Speaker)
What eye-tracking (and neuroimaging) can reveal about infants' language processing and visual attention
November 17, 2011 Pierina Cheung Who has more blocks?: The development of discrete number comparison in 2- to 4-year-olds
December 15, 2011

3pm
PAS 3026
Ageliki Nicolopoulou

LeHigh University
(Guest Speaker)
Promoting narrative abilities in low-income preschoolers: Challenges and opportunities