Spring 2012 RISC Lab Meeting Schedule
Meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 9:30 am
Jan 10: Jamie Jirout, "Improving Children's Scaling"
Jan 17:
Jan 24:
Jan 31:
Feb 7: Eric Riggs, Texas A&M University
Feb 14:
Feb 21: Steven Franconeri, Northwestern University
Feb 28: Anja Jamrozik, Northwestern University
Mar 6: spring break
Mar 13:
Mar 20:
Mar 27: Raedy Ping, University of Chicago
April 3:
April 10:
April 17: Frederic Bertley, Franklin Institute
April 24:
May 1:
May 8: Alex Klippell, Penn State University
Fall 2011 RISC Lab Meeting Schedule
Meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 9:30 am
Aug 30: Kick-off Organizational Meeting
Sept 6:
Sept 13: NO MEETING
Sept 20: Shannon Fitzhugh will practice doctoral defense without faculty
Sept 27: Kinnari Atit
Oct 4: Ilyse Resnick
Oct 11: Carly Kontra from University of Chicago
Oct 18: Maria Chang from Northwestern University
Oct 25: Justin Harris (and Nate George)
Nov 1: Nate George
Nov 8: Elizabeth Crawford, U. of Richmond, "The Flexible Use of Inductive and Geometric Spatial Categories"
Nov 15: NO MEETING
Nov 22: NO MEETING
Nov 29: Vlad Ayzenberg discussing honors thesis
SPRING 2012 TILES Talks
March 20- Jim Stigler, UCLA, speaking on "Changing the Culture of Teaching: Perspectives on Mathematics Teaching and How to Improve It. "Location: Weiss Hall 6th Flr Hamilton Library, 3:30 pm, refreshments served at 3 pm

April 3-Location: Weiss Hall 6th Flr Hamilton Library, 3:30 pm, refreshments served at 3 pm Judy DeLoache, University of Virgina speaking on "Becoming Symbol Minded: Young Children's Understanding and Use of Symoblic Objects"
April 19- Ken Pugh (Haskins Lab) "Neuroimaging studies of Reading and Language Development: An Update on Recent Findings"; hosted by Kim Curby, 2:30 - 4:00 pm; location: Kiva Auditiorium, Ritter Hall . Co-sponsored by the neuro-science program.
Fall 2011 TILES Talks
Oct 19-Location: Weiss Hall 6th Flr Hamilton Library 3:30 pm, refreshments served at 3:00 pm
Hal Pashler, UCSD (hosted by Kim Curby)
"Testing and Spacing Effects: Improving the Efficiency of Learning"

Nov. 15-Location: Weiss Hall 6th Flr Hamilton Library, 3:30 pm, refreshments served at 3:00 pm
Christine Massey, IRCS, U of Pennsylvania (hosted byNora Newcombe)

Dec. 8- Daniel Ansari, U of Western Ontario (hosted by Jim Byrnes) co-sponsored by the neuroscience program.
"Does number sense matter? Evidence from brain and behavior".
1:15 to 2:15 Journal Club- Hamilton Library, 6th Floor Weiss Hall
2:15 to 2:30 Escorted by UNS member to the assigned seminar series room in Kiva Auditorium, Ritter Hall
2:30 to 4:00- speak at Kiva Auditorium, Ritter Hall
SPRING 2012 IRCS Talks
January 20
Dave Sobel, " Causal reasoning and selective trust as rational inference"
Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences; Brown University
April 20
Kevin Dunbar, University of Maryland
Fall 2011 IRCS Talks
All will be held on Friday afternoons at 12:00pm at the University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A.
September 9
Thomas Wolbers, "Dynamic and multimodal representations of space in the human brain"
Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh
November 11
Kate Jeffrey, "Navigating in a 3D world - is the brain's map of space actually
flat?"
Institute of Behavioral Neuroscience, University College London
Spring 2011 RISC Lab Meeting Schedule
Meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 9:30 am
Jan. 25: Kick-off organizational meeting
Feb 1: No meeting
Feb 8: Micah Goldwater (Northwestern)
Feb 15: David Grissmer (U. Virginia)
Feb 22: Liz Gunderson (U. Chicago)
Mar 1: NO MEETING
Mar 8: Spring Break
Mar 15: NO MEETING
Mar 22: Steve Palmer (UC Berkeley)
Mar 29: Amy Shelton (Johns Hopkins)
Apr 5: Jennifer Sutton (Brescia University College, University of Western Ontario)
Apr 12: NO MEETING
Apr 19: NO MEETING
Apr 26: NO MEETING
May 3: Rob Goldstone (Indiana University)
May 10: Mark Holden defends at 10 am, Alex Twyman defends at 2 pm
May 17: NO MEETING
May 24: Justin Harris
May 31: David Miller (UC Berkeley)
Jun 7: NO MEETING
Jun 14: Tim Shipley, Ilyse Resnick, Kinnari Atit: Geosciences Workbook
Jun 21: Jen Cromley: Student-constructed vs. Self-explanation diagrams
Jun 28:
Jul 5: Jamie Jirout (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jul 12:
Special Session: June 6th, 12-1:30 pm, Hamilton Library: Dr. Ovid Tzeng, former Taiwan Minister of Education. More info can be found here: Dr. Ovid Tzeng
Summer 2011 Journal Club
Meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 12:30 pm
Jun 1:
- Dixon, M. W. & Proffitt, D. R. (2002). Overestimation of heights in virtual reality is influenced more by perceived distal size than by the 2-D versus 3-D dimensionality of the display. Perception, 31, 103-112.
Jun 8:
- Chu, M. & Kita, S. (2011). The nature of gestures' beneficial role in spatial problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 102-116.
Jun 15:
Jun 22:
Jun 29:
Jul 6:
Jul 13:
Jul 20:
Jul 27:
Fall 2010 RISC Lab Meeting Schedule
Meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 9:30 am
Sept. 7: Organizational meeting
Sept. 21: Victor Schinazi
Sept. 28: NO MEETING
Oct. 5: Steve Marchette (Shelton Lab, Hopkins)
Oct. 12: Naveen Khetarpal (UChicago)
Oct. 19: Sean Duffy (Rutgers-Camden)
Oct. 26: Kinnari Atit - Gesture and Geomaps
Nov. 2: Dan Nardi
Nov. 9: Megan Sauter (Northwestern)
Nov. 16: Psychonomics Poster Meeting
Nov. 23: NO MEETING
Nov. 30: Kristin Gagnier (Intraub Lab, Delaware)
Spring 2010 RISC Lab Meeting Schedule
Meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 9:30 am
Jan. 19 Kick-off organizational meeting
Jan. 26 Chris Weidemann, Penn
Feb. 2 NO MEETING
Feb. 9 Kim Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Feb. 16 MEETING CANCELLED
Feb. 23 Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Nora Newcombe
Mar. 2 ICIS Practice
Mar. 9 NO MEETING—spring break
Mar. 16 Comparative Cognition practice
Mar. 23 Frank Durgin (Swarthmore)
Mar. 30 Jennifer Cromley
Apr. 6 Peter Marshall, Temple University
Apr. 13 Almut Hupbach (Lehigh)
Apr. 20 Ilyse Resnick
Apr. 27 Victor Schinazi
May 4 planning
May 11 Ken Coventry, Northumbria University
May 18 NO MEETING
May 25 Kuba Glazek, room 642
July 13 Site Visit practice
July 25 Kimmarie Engerman, room 642
Aug 3 Sanh Ah Lee, room 642
Spring 2010 TILES Talks
All will be held on a Thursday at 3:30 in Hamilton Library on the 6th floor of Weiss Hall (unless we find a larger venue for lectures). Refreshments will be provided.
Jan. 28 Dan Schwartz, Stanford
Feb. 11 Josh Aronson, NYU
Spring 2011 IRCS Talks
All will be held on Friday afternoons at 12:00pm at the University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A.
February 4
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
March 18
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Stella Lourenco, Emory University
Department of Psychology
Spring 2010 IRCS Talks
All will be held on Friday afternoons at 12:00pm at the University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A, Conference Room - Room 470
January 29
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Alinda Friedman
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
Location Estimates in Real-World Space
February 12
IRCS/SILC joint talk
David Kemmerer
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
March 26
IRCS talk
Michael Hasselmo
Boston University
Fall 2009 RISC Lab Meeting Schedule
Meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 9:30 am (meetings will begin on 9/8/2009)
Sept. 1 NO MEETING
Sept. 8 Organizational meeting
Sept. 15 Alex Morrison, Training Study
Sept. 22 Victor Schinazi and Dan Nardi
Sept. 29 Mark Holden
Oct. 6 Kelly Fisher
Oct. 13 Frances Balcomb
Oct. 20 Tim Shipley plus time for someone else
Oct. 27 Alex Twyman
Nov. 3 Ken Forbus visits from Northwestern University. Talk held in the Hamilton Library on the 6th floor.
Nov. 10 P-nomics talks and posters
Nov. 17 Open
Nov. 24 NO MEETING
Dec. 1 Shannon Fitzhugh
Dec. 8 Ray and Amanda (honors theses)
Dec. 15 Dan, slope study; Dominique and Alex Morrison, training study
Fall 2009 TILS Talks
All will be held on a Thursday at 3:30 in Hamilton Library on the 6th floor of Weiss Hall (unless we find a larger venue for lectures). Refreshments will be provided.
Sept. 17: Get acquainted wine-and-cheese reception.
Oct. 1: Talk by John Bruer, President, James S. McDonnell Foundation
Oct. 29: Talk by Ken Koedinger, Carnegie-Mellon University, PI of Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center
Nov. 12: Get-acquainted talks by Temple faculty
Dec. 10: Get-acquainted talks by Temple faculty
Jan. 28: Talk by Dan Schwartz, Stanford
Feb. 11: Talk by Joshua Aronson, NYU
Fall 2009 IRCS Talks
All will be held on Friday afternoons at 12:00pm at the University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A,
Conference Room - Room 470
September 25
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Aude Oliva
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department
MIT
Remembering thousands of images with high fidelity
December 4
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Philip Kellman
Department of Psychology
UCLA
Spring 2009 RISC Lab Meeting Schedule
Meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 9:30 am
Jan. 20 Dan Nardi on his early results on slope, and plans
Jan. 27 Andrea Frick on her early results on tool use
Feb. 3 Nora Newcombe on SILC overview
Feb. 10 iSLC report back
Feb. 17 NO MEETING (SILC annual meeting at UC)
Feb. 24 Nina Simms visits from Northwestern University
Mar. 3 Shannon practices EPA talk, Susan Naylor-Emlen speaks about mental rotation
Mar. 10 NO MEETING - BREAK
Mar. 17 Ramon Lopez, Ximena Cid from University of Texas Arlington
Mar. 24 Lynn Nadel from AZ
Mar. 31 Display of SRCD posters
Apr. 7 Frances Balcomb—place learning and episodic memory
Apr. 14 Shannon and Tilbe discuss preliminary results on mental rotation and gesture study
Apr. 21 Jennifer Cromley
Apr. 28 NO MEETING—SILC SITE VISIT AT PENN
May 12 Victor Schinazi
May 19 Kim Curby
May 26 Ingrid Olson
June 2 SILC Theoretical Framework discussion
June 9 Jennifer Sutton, Western Ontario
June 16 NO MEETING - SILC Leadership Meeting
June 22 OPEN
June 30 Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware
July 7 NO MEETING - SILC/ DFG Meeting NYC
July 14 Madeleine Keehner, University of Dundee
July 21 Tim Shipley on assessing mental transformations
July 28 NO MEETING UNTIL SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Spring Speakers in the Philadelphia Area (RISC, IRCS)
Jan. 23 Nora Newcombe IRCS (Penn)
Jan. 30 David Redish (Minnesota) IRCS (Penn)
Feb. 2 Michael Brown (Villanova) BBC Brownbag (Temple)
Feb. 23 Philip Gersmehl (Hunter) Geography and Urban Studies (Temple)
Feb. 27 Aude Oliva (MIT) IRCS (Penn)
Mar. 23 James Russell (Cambridge, UK) Development Mtg. (Temple)
11:30-12:30pm, Hamilton Library
Mar. 24 Lynn Nadel (Arizona) RISC lab group (Temple)
Mar. 25 Lynn Nadel (Arizona) IRCS (Penn)
4:00pm, Barchi Library (John Morgan 140)
Mar. 27 Dawn Blasko & Kathy Holliday-Darr (PSU) Temple Engineering (Temple)
12:40pm, Engineering Building Room 126
Fall 2008 RISC Lab Meeting Schedule
Sept 24: Andrea Frick
Oct 1: Tilbe Goksun, Sarah Roseberry, Frances Balcomb
Oct 8: Shannon Fitzhugh, Victor Schinazi
Oct 15: Jennifer Cromley
Oct 22: Mark Holden
Oct 29: Shannon Fitzhugh
Nov 5: Nora Newcombe
Nov 12: Russ Epstein
Nov 19: Nora Newcombe
Nov 26: No meeting
Dec 3: Frances Balcomb
Dec 10: Susan Naylor-Emlen
Dec 17: Tim Shipley

