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NON-CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(January – December 2006)

1. Bullock, D.B. (2006). Adaptive neural models of queuing and timing in fluent action. Invited colloquium presentation at the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, March.

2. Carpenter, G.A. (2006). Information fusion and hierarchical knowledge discovery from distributed codes of learned pattern classes. Invited lecture and one-day panel discussion at a Pattern Recognition Workshop for invited researchers and managers from the defense and intelligence community. Organized by the MITRE Corporation, McLean VA, April.

3. Carpenter, G.A. and Grossberg, S. (2006). Participation in the DARPA/BICA Technical Exchange Meeting, Cambridge MA, May.

4. Grossberg, S. (2006). A biweekly series of 90-minute lectures called "Anticipatory brain dynamics in perception, cognition, and action" was given in the Boston University CNS Department in Spring 2006. All members of CELEST were invited to attend.

5. Hasselmo, M.E. (2006). Neuromodulation and cortical function. Talk presented at the University of Texas at Dallas, February.

6. Hasselmo, M.E. (2006). Modeling the neurophysiological mechanisms of memory guided behavior. Talk presented at the World Association of Modelers: Biologically Accurate Models meeting, March.

7. Hasselmo, M.E. (2006). Neurophysiological mechanisms of memory guided behavior. Talk presented at Northwestern University, Chicago IL, April.

8. Hasselmo, M.E. (2006). Cortical mechanisms for memory guided behavior. Talk presented at McMaster University, Canada, April.

9. Hasselmo, M.E. (2006). Acetylcholine and cortical memory function. Talk presented at Charite Universitatsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, May.

10. Hasselmo, M.E. (2006). Acetylcholine and cortical function: Angel Alonso's Legacy. Talk presented at Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada, May.

11. Hasselmo, M.E., Schon, K., and Stern, C.E. (2006). Cholinergic mechanisms in memory function. Data blitz talk presented to the Charles River Association for Memory (CRAM), January.

12. Kantak, K. (2006). Organizer and Co-Chair of the Symposium “Preclinical Models for Cognitive Enhancers: Within Reach or Still Too Great a Stretch?” at the annual meeting of Experimental Biology/American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, San Francisco CA, April.

13. Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2006). Divide and conquer: Attention in complex auditory scenes. Talk presented in the seminar series of the Institute for Hearing, Speech and Language and the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Northeastern University, Boston MA, March.

14. Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2006). Searching for cross-modal analogies: Spatial attention in complex auditory scenes. Talk presented at the Visual Attention seminar series, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston MA, March.

15. Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2006). Space is just another auditory feature. Talk presented at the workshop on “Difficult Issues in Auditory Scene Analysis,” held in conjunction with the Computational and Systems Neuroscience meeting, Park City UT, March.

16. Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2006). Communicating in a natural cocktail party: Relating human and avian behavior to neural response. CELEST Science of Learning seminar series, Boston University, April.

17. van Vugt, M. (2006). Finding NEMO in the brain. Talk presented at the Brainstem seminar series, February.