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)

"Incorporating Principles of Learning in Computer-based Interventions to Improve Understanding of Fraction and Measurement Concepts"

 

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

IRCS/SILC joint talk

Dave Sobel, " Causal reasoning and selective trust as rational inference"

Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences; Brown University

 

April 20

IRCS/SILC joint talk

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

IRCS/SILC joint talk

Thomas Wolbers, "Dynamic and multimodal representations of space in the human brain"

Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh

 

November 11

IRCS/SILC joint talk

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. 

- Redden, J. P. & Hoch, S. J. (2009). The presence of variety reduces perceived quantity. Journal of Consumer Research, 36, 406-417. 

 

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. 

- Durgin, F. H., Baird, J. A., Greenburg, M., Russel, R., Shaughnessy, K., Waymouth, S. (2009). Who is being deceived? The experimental demands of wearing a backpack, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 964-969. 

 

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